While Our Leaders Sleep
Oh wake Granger, Wake up Khemraj Wake up Moses
Oh wake up dear leaders please a crisis is at hand
While you sleep they’ve stolen the treasury all the money
While you sleep the people are with hungry belly
While you sleep the people are angry
While you sleep you’ve betrayed Walter Rodney
Oh Wake Rupert, Go away Bond
What we need are exemplary leaders not vagabonds
Oh we miss Sheila and Viola to console all those crying mothers
Oh wake up Williams, Wake Up Ferguson
What happen are you in prison?
Your constituents are calling on deaf ears it is falling
Oh wake up Grant, Oh wake up Lestor
What happen to your Youths Transforming something or the other!
Oh go away Mark all dogs bark but many don’t bite
Another mother exploit she still cries tonight
Give us a Kofi even a mild Damon to rid us of this demon
Oh wake up Harmon, Oh wake up of Felix
Where is all that military and police tactic?
Lead your sheep to green pasture
Not to the home of Free Dom for slaughter
Oh go away Lubumba, gwaan Kwame
We don’t need another HJTV Party
Where are our leaders with humanity?
As the president shows his racial proclivity
Where are the songs of redemption?
As Babylon kill another one of our sons
What is blood now like river water?
Flowing so freely it is easy to shatter
Where are our Burnham and Cheddi of today?
We have Nigel Hughes and young Sharma Solomon
We still got Aubrey Norton but still can’t get rid of Concorbin
Where are the ones who care to help dry the nation’s tear
No photo ops just plain human stops to say sorry my dear
Wake up oh dear leaders your people are dying
Wake up oh dear leaders your sheep is being lead astray
Wake up oh dear leaders not another day
Wake up of dear turn us to times of gay
Remember when we had a nation of fine men and women
That produced intelligent hard working children
Remember all our native sons toil
To make Guyana a better nation
But as you sleep the thief roams
Stealing from under garments to human souls
But soon of soon the bell will toll
As our leaders sleep the people are in rebellion
Like a ship without a lighthouse they crash to shore
Stuck never to set sail anymore defeat some feel
Willing to continue but who is there to lead
Oh the Basils, oh Sommersals, the Lawrence
None of these makes a difference
Give me 100 hundred Gerhards and Nigels
And together a nation we build
Give more Winstons and Gordon and sprinkle us some Michelle
And the demons we’ll banish to hell
Throw in some Reynards, Cindys, and Donna
And for the regime it will be hotter than summer
Oh leaders please tell when did we become so beastly?
All this corruption and police brutality
Oh this drugs and raping of women
All this domestic violence without end
Oh leaders please draft a policy
To return us to tranquility
Have we forgotten from whence we came?
We’re living worse than Abel and Cane
Is it we need a Messiah to start the fire
I thought it was burning only need some stoking
What has happened to our spirit?
That we have come to accept this evil gambit
Oh leaders where art thou?
If you can lead now please speak out loud
Past the baton to the younger generation
So we can take back our nation
Written By: Tyrone iMajik Iyes Talbot
