Running Jamaican Proverb

Spit ina di sky it ago fall ina yu eye sa.

Richie Spice, The World is a Cycle

Depending on how long I’m out, I’ll listen to as few as about 6 or as many as about 30 songs on a run. Some songs get you through kyaan bada moments, some make you forget what you’re doing, some you want to skip. Somehow, through it all, there is usually one line from one song that hits you. And it keeps playing in your head even after the run is over. Recently it was this line from a very popular song from a few years ago. I knew the song, and thought I knew its lines.

This particular line appears well after two minutes into the song! Obviously I wasn’t listening past the opening lines.

What a quick Google search has made clear to me is that this is actually a Jamaican proverb: If yu spit ina di sky it fall ina yu eye. What goes around, comes around, the world is a cycle.

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