I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
Observing the hypocrites
- Bob Marley, ‘No Woman No Cry’
It turns out that the government yard in Trenchtown is an open sewer.
Some of you might derive the meaning that really, reality isn’t so nice as our songs and poems make it out to be.
I choose to believe that this just shows how adept Bob Marley was with word and song.
