[INTRO - SPOKEN (CHANTWELL)] Caribbean… allyuh hear dis? Three crises riding we back like donkey in crop-over, And we still waiting on big people to save we? No sah… We is de cavalry. [VERSE 1 - STORY] A brother in an-gwil-lah phone in he hand, Last text from he sister in Cuba: “Dem want we dead, understand!” Twenty hours darkness, fuel lock-down tight, Schools shut down, flights grounded, whole home without light. And mother got two sons, heart split in two, One in Cuba suffering, one in Miami doing “I do.” She watching leaders talking in a big bright dome, But when speech done… she still alone. [CHORUS - MAIN HOOK (AUDIENCE)] Is Triple C, Triple C, grinding we down— Climate and Crime and Chronic disease in town. Triple C, Triple C, wicked like sin— But if we don’t save weself, who saving we? Nobody coming! So move from talk to action, from fear to strategy— The cavalry is not coming… Caribbean, we is de cavalry! [VERSE 2 - THE WIFE WHO CAN’T SLEEP] In Fancy she listening, ear to the sea, Waiting on one engine to set she mind free. Cause boat look like boat, in the night all same, And “fisherman” and “target” does share one frame. She don’t know JEE-OH, POLLY-tiks, she know net and tide, Know when a man don’t return, a whole home does slide. So tell me what security really mean, When a wife cyan’t sleep, and the sea turn mean? [CHORUS - MAIN HOOK] Is Triple C, Triple C, grinding we down— Climate and Crime and Chronic disease in town. Triple C, Triple C, wicked like sin— But if we don’t save weself, who saving we? Nobody coming! So move from talk to action, from fear to strategy— The cavalry is not coming… Caribbean, we is de cavalry! [VERSE 3 - BOTTLES / CET / THE CHILDREN] Seamoss man counting money, small business tight, He living by the “China price,” keeping dreams upright. Boutique lady stocking SHEIN, cause people need cheap, When margins thin, a shop does weep. Factory worker in Trinidad, morning like clock, Depending on that C-E-T to keep food in the pot. Then leader call CARICOM “unreliable” on stage, She wonder, “Unreliable for who?”—she feeling the rage. And a school waiting computer lab, just so youth could rise, Dem talking “coding,” but the children got empty eyes. [BRIDGE - SPOKEN (THE MODEL)] Remember the woman with the pressure cuff— No podium, no motorcade, just love and stubborn stuff. She screening in the church hall, calling people back, Saving more lives than plenty long speech and track. She is the answer… She is the model. [FINAL CHORUS - BIGGER (CALL & RESPONSE)] Is Triple C, Triple C, grinding we down— Climate and Crime and Chronic disease in town. Triple C, Triple C, wicked like sin— But if we don’t save weself, who saving we? Nobody coming! So move from talk to action, from fear to strategy— The cavalry is not coming… Caribbean, we is de cavalry! CALL: Who is de cavalry? RESPONSE: WE! CALL: Who must move first? RESPONSE: WE! CALL: Who must plant, mentor, check numbers, and plan? RESPONSE: WE—Caribbean man and Caribbean woman! [OUTRO - SPOKEN TAG] kuh-MYOO-nih-KAY goin file… Monday morning still coming… So leh we start today.
