Song
Waiting in Vain
Ska
4:08
BPM
113
Key
D
4/4
Tuff Gong International
ISRC: JMRC1901873
Plays
17.8K
Loves
1.7K
Released
2025
Story behind the song
Written in one sitting after a late-night studio session in Kingston. The bassline came first — Family Man laid down four bars and the whole song built itself around that groove. The lyrics took two more weeks of refinement before they felt right.
Writing
- Songwriter
- Bob Marley
Production
- Producer
- Stephen McGregor
- Co-producer
- Sting International
Performance
- Bass
- Nambo Robinson
- Horns
- Nambo Robinson
- Keys
- Al Anderson
- Lead vocals
- Bob Marley
Engineering
- Mixed by
- Stephen Stanley
- Mastered by
- Steven Stewart
[Verse] I remember the days when the radio played Nothing but the sweetest sounds, the songs they made Now the youths them ask me what the music meant I tell them every chord was time well spent [Chorus] The roots are deep, the roots are strong We carry them in every song The roots are deep, the roots are true They passing through me, passing through you [Bridge] From Trench Town to Tottenham, the message is the same Love, equality, and rising above the pain [Chorus]
Energy
76%
Danceability
43%
Positivity
43%
Acoustic
46%
Instrumental
46%
Live feel
19%
Speechy
23%
- ISRC
- JMRC1901873
- ISWC
- T-562.321.765-5
- UPC
- 0884385002466
- Catalog number
- TGR-2022-190
- Label
- Tuff Gong International
- Publisher
- SunSka Music Publishing
- Recording studio
- Channel One Studio, Kingston, Jamaica
- Recording date
- May 17, 2024
- ℗ line
- ℗ 2022 Tuff Gong International
- © line
- © 2024 SunSka Music Publishing
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Chronixx
8 months ago
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Added to all my playlists immediately.
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