Bad Card lyrics

Ya enemies can stand up on your ways but they do not know whose leading you all the time, they always surprise to fail catching you with their tapes, the only jah keep on protecting you against the evil plan thy made upon you

He means that courage and braveness will make all the troubles seem small

No matter how much they try to bring you down,you always have to stay on top of your game. What they do,say and think of you don't matter,what matters is you have to know who you are,where you from and where you are going. Thnx bob 4 a powerful song!

Bob marley - bad card

You have grown tired to see me face;
Can't get me out of the race.
Oh, man, you said i'm in your place
And then you draw a bad card
I make you draw a bad card,
And then you draw a bad card.

Propaganda spreading over my name;
Say you wanna bring another life to shame.
Oh, man, you just a playing a game
And then you draw a bad card (draw a bad card);
I make you draw a bad card (draw a bad card);
I make you draw a bad card.

I want to disturb my neighbour,
'cause i'm feelin' so right;
I want to turn up my disco,
Blow them top full watts tonight, aay!
In a rub-a-dub style, in a rub-a-dub style,
In a rub-a-dub style, in a rub-a-dub style.

'cause we guarding the palace so majestic;
Guarding the palace so realistic!

Them have grown tired to see we face (oh yeah! ),
They say them can't get we out of the race;
Oh, man, it just a big disgrace.
The way you draw a bad card (draw a bad card);
The way you make wrong moves (make wrong moves);
The way you draw a bad card (draw a bad card);
Don't make me draw a bad card (draw a bad card);
Don't make me draw a bad card -
In a rub-a-dub style, rub-a-dub style,
In a rub-a-dub style -

He is talking about racism against the black man!!!

For me bob's talkin bout how the powers that be are sick and tired of his opening of the masses eyes to the reality of the system we live in, and their efforts to discredit him but regardless he's gonna 'disturb his neighbour and blow his system to full watt' cus he knows he's righteous and eventually the powers that be will 'draw bad cyard' (f**k up)

When you draw bad card that mean you got a bad deal or you have bad luck!

I was under the impression that bob marley was living at the house of a particularly hard drinking bad-tempered country rock musician with a penchant for high stake poker games at the time he wrote this song.

I just love the track because of the motivational message i derived from it. Simply the legend is trying to tell us not to give up in life even when enemies are trying to pull us down.

Is more simple than that, all life aspects face competition from other people who want to turn u down, if you are going up they want to pull u down (envy). This is common in business. The one who sings is patiently suffering humiliations cause he also has to see his enemy to the face quite dayli, but he knows this is a game of strategy and tenacity, (is a game of constance and rithym more than speed or violence) same as a bicycle race so beatufully resumed as cards game, and the one who makes the first bad movement will loose it all.
The singer is just speaking to his enemy, still polite and after all humilliations suffered, he wonders why he made that bad move when he was doing a great job making his life impossible, he almost had him. So now the singer is happy, his patiente has paid off finally his enemy made a bad movement so the singer can get along his way again.