Snakes and Legal Person Ladders

Verse 1
Dem lawyer-adder creep inna de court,
Adding name upon name like a twisted report,
Positive law chain pon a birth certificate,
Make man a debtor puppet, can’t escape de state.

Chorus
Snakes and legal person ladders,
Climb up de mammon rung, but fall down harder,
Trading Jah grace for de Exchequer king,
Messiah deniers find only debt prison sing.

Verse 2
Occupation ladder look shiny and tall,
But each rung is debt, and each step a fall,
From cradle contract to pension grave,
De serpent smile while de people enslave.

Chorus
Snakes and legal person ladders,
Climb up de mammon rung, but fall down harder,
Trading Jah grace for de Exchequer king,
Messiah deniers find only debt prison sing.

Bridge
Free grace calling from Zion gate,
Leave Babylon ladder before it too late,
Lawyer-adder hiss with de fiction tongue,
But Christ set de soul free—de victory won.

Verse 3
Positive law add to de name of man,
But subtraction come quick in Jah righteous hand,
For debt is a hell where de deniers dwell,
Prison of the king, de Exchequer shell.

Final Chorus
Snakes and legal person ladders,
Climb up de mammon rung, but fall down harder,
Trading Jah grace for de Exchequer king,
Messiah deniers find only debt prison sing.

Outro (chant)
Snakes hiss—adders twist,
But grace a gift dem cannot resist,
Climb no ladder, play no game,
Jah free man live in Christ name.