Lyrics:

The most dangerous thing that exists in the world today is serious thing. Oh yes it is!

The way the people are living nowadays
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Can't get no work can't get no pay
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
The little children they can't go to school
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Teachers demonstrating for their salaries
Let me tell you it's a serious thing

To come home to find your children out of school and on the streets idling is a very serious thing. This arises from a situation where instead of teachers are in the schools teaching they are on the streets demonstrating and that's a serious thing

So much wars and famine on the land
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Yet we are making more war plans
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
There is no attention on the youths nowadays
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
No future plans or opportunities
Let me tell you it's a serious thing

The devastating memory of Hiroshima has not quenched the bloody thirst of Satan and that's a very serious thing. His future plans are to devour Jah children as he eats up bread and to create instead the dawn of the dead. Serious thing

In town and country it's the same old cry
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Brothers and sisters I'm telling no lie
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Sometimes you'd wonder if you're wrong or right
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
If you've got to stand up and fight
Let me tell you it's a serious thing

The struggle for the Blackman's liberty against the vicious apartheid system of South Africa is a very serious thing. And if the weapon of resistance is in the hand of the oppressed against the oppressors then that also is a very serious thing

Can't pay my bills can't pay my rent
Now let me tell you it's a serious thing
Food is essential but I ain't got a cent
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
So much people begging in the streets
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Some are picking up to have a bite to eat
Let me tell you it's a serious thing

If in the nick-a-time you come home find the landlords bailiff relieving you of all your possessions that could be a serious thing. For your table or for your chair you could find a spare but to take your bed away is a very serious thing. To go to your brother to ask for a loan only to realize that he was heading for your home is a very serious thing. And to be in the position where your daily bread comes only from the garbage is a very serious thing

Tom, Dick and Harry they are complaining, oh yeah
They are saying it's a serious thing
About the condition they are living in, oh yeah
They are saying it's a serious thing
So much in the prison living in one cell
Let me tell you it's a serious thing
Much more to join in in that smell
Let me tell you it's a serious thing

To be confined to a cell which like a cesspool bears a smell it's a very, very serious thing. To be stripped of all your rights, sanity, dignity and liberty it's a very, very serious thing. To be chained and shackled and thrown in a dungeon it's a very, very serious thing. It's like working on a chain-gang but it's more than that it's a serious thing. Ain't got no liberation. Serious thing