"Combine the Trini spirit, with the years of struggle
and frustration with the instrument, and the energy is
unpredictable."
There is a unique formula when one combines the
Trini spirit and the sound of the pan, to produce an
energy that knows no bounds and yet still has very much
to be discovered by the rest of the world. Both have
been forged through fire & passion, struggle and
frustration, yet it is through this process that our
latent talent & free spirited nature comes alive and our
creativity flows. One only sees or hears the end result,
but sometime fails to recognize what we really have, a
true reflection of our soul captured with an instrument
invented right here in Trinidad.
This was the first song in a musical relationship of 7
consecutive years with
Denyse Plummer, who came to my house, to hear me sing the song for her
with my guitar. She did not know me at the time, but
she was very professional and got into the song by
singing along. I knew then, that this would be a good
song for the pan world.
I am grateful to Errol Peru,
Kitchener’s manager, for supporting me on my Passion for
Pan album, and he was one of the first people who had
heard the raw melody of the song. His reaction was
great, and I thought if there was anyone who would be
accustomed to hearing good melodies, then that person
must be Errol.
I was on my way to live and work in Norway in the year
2000, but the song was composed and written that year
for release in 2001, with Boogsie and Pelham Goddard
arranging the production of the recording.
Then something happened. The music was being played in
Panorama on the Grand Savannah Stage, New York and
Montreal.
Verse No one could understand
How Trini born with pan, invented in dis land
Doh ask meh to explain
Pan fever in meh brain, it driving meh insane
Is music in we soul, with roots in Calypso
Had our pain learning, feel like ah flame burning
Well we yearning for fire and steel
Chorus Can ya feel de energy, meh heart start to pump baby
Ya making meh jump baby, doh hold back for... anybody
In dis century... we go find out just how great pan appeal,
through our fire and steel
Band Chorus
Verse We laugh, we love, we cry
A born Trini till I die, taking meh mamaguy
Ya see not long ago
Pan struggle high and low, right here in Trinbago
With fire on de pan, dat's how it all began
Add some raw passion, mix in some frustration
Then ya molding some fire and steel
Chorus
Bridge
Inderlude (Intro)
Verse We jump, we dance, we wave
Going till Ash Wednesday, doh care what nobody say
Pan struggle long and hard
Now watch how we going mad, in all de bacchanal
Doh try to understand, where all dis soul come from
As de flame burning, slowly de pain healing,
And we feeling de fire and steel
Chorus Can ya feel de energy, meh heart start to pump baby
Ya making meh jump baby, doh hold back for... anybody
In dis century... we go find out just how great pan appeal,
through our fire and steel
Listen to dis melody, turmoil in meh whole body,
Meh blood start to boil baby, dis heat not for... everybody
Yes is time dat we... show respect, love and conviction we feel,
for our fire and steel
