Khouri released an album of those songs and some cover tunes titled Greatest Hits. On top of his own success as a singer and recording artist, Smith was becoming known as a proven songwriter. Smith says inspiration for his songs are just as varied as the songs themselves. Somebody say something a different way and I hear something. Or sometimes I might hear a melody playing and it triggers something else in my imagination.
Inspiration comes from all sources.
It's many different ways. I found out that if I'd written anything and it wasn't true, it came to be true. So I think inspiration is almost prophetic sometimes. The song caught the ire of government officials and Smith decided to cool out in North America settling first in Miami, then Toronto and finally Fourt Lauderdale. Smith felt compelled to return to Jamaica in 1989 just after Hurricane Gilbert swept through the island.