Dig out Your Eye
[Verse 1]
Taking the rented car back to the depot
But the backlight bust and the ankle bend
I knew they would've wound me with price
I Knew I should've gone down in the bamboo and try to get that fix
But Diane say, "No boy"
"How you could go down in the bamboo and interfere with the people motor car, you crazy?"
So we drove it into the yard, and just so
And the lil' winer girl just wine round the car twice, and say, "It good"
She never even see the light
And we run down thе Western Main Road saying how, "Trini' nice"

[Chorus]
Dig out your еye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
Love you bad, take all you got
(Dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye)
Dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
Dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye

[Verse 2]
In town, rain was coming down hard
Streets were busting with the budget
And we could hear the numbers
Seeping out from shop front radios
As we ate creole Chinese and shopped for souvenirs
Monday midday in Port of Spain and those same faces still there
The same broko foot ras who does sell beads and oils
Under Kirpsons on Frederick Street
However since 1985 he been begging me to buy but I never buy
He still there, calling me "Redman"
Like I never left
Well, Trinidad
[Chorus]
We dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
Dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
We love you bad but we take all you got, take all you have, dig out your eye
(We dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig it out, dig out your eye)
Dig out your eye, dig it out, dig out your eye

[Verse 3]
Come the tall black dread on Charlotte Street
Come with his liberation papers and colors and rolling papers
And his wool belts in green and gold, his lighters and pipes and such
Come with the same style, same still around these men
Still hustling like they always will
And from how the dread head gone fade around the rim
I now realize that he was my age all along them times
When he could pull big Friday bills from my palm
With the slickness of his implore, and
And even once he sold me some crepe soled shoes that were two sizes too small
He say the doc' give him two weeks to live, aha
Yet every year the man still there, the man still there
Set up under the people shop, yeah
Hey
Well, Trinidad

[Chorus]
We dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
Dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
We love you bad but we take all you got, we take all you have, dig out your eye
(We dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig it out, dig out your eye)
Dig it out, dig it out, dig out your eye
(We dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig it out, dig out your eye)
[Verse 4]
Had a brother named Nurse
Same Nurse who used to goal keep
Same long-neck, knock-knee nurse who brother Loaf was a big gangster
Who get shoot down South
Nurse from Febeau Village
Who just so one day turn thief to prowl
And problem and rob?
And I am crossing Independence Square by South Quay
Down in front Royal Bank where the old drag mall used to be
And I see him staggering through the city, drunk and high
On rum red and red beard collie
Poor and humble in his vagrancy
With the sweet drink bottle in his hand
And a straw in the neck of it
Like a swan against gravity
Next thing is layers of skin peeling in mud
Corpse-like to fester-like in some ravine
That clay brown skin to shed, the epidermis, goblin
Vinegar of the bitter tongue
Darting out the mouth
The eyes bulging in the time of the street
Bare feet and back and running
From doorway to doorway, from doorway to doorway
From doorway to doorway
In the broken heart of the city
Trinidad
[Chorus]
Dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
Dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
We love you bad, take all you got, take all you have, take all you got and we take all you have
(We dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig it out, dig out your eye)
We dig out your eye, we dig out your eye, we dig out your eye

[Outro]
Trinidad
I say, we dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
Dig out your eye, dig it out, dig out your eye
We love you bad take all you got, take all you have, take all you got and we take all you have
Dig out your eye, out your eye, dig out your eye
(We dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig it out, dig out your eye)
Trinidad, ah, dig out your eye, ah, dig
Trinidad, dig out your eye, dig out your eye, dig out your eye
Dig out, dig out your eye, dig it out, ah, really dig out your eye