what is the reggae song with the lyrics "paperwork between you and me"?

Does anyone recognize these songs?
I overheard a few reggae songs that really stuck with me, and I can't find them anywhere.

It was great lead male singing vocals, and nice production
(sounded new, last 10-20 years)
drums and some instruments, female choir in the background, classic reggae bit and vibe.

I remember some of the lyrics from two of the songs distinctly:

1. first one, the male singer sings something like:
2. "standing in line by the embassy gate
3. I'm just some numbers on a piece of paper
4. paperwork between me and the promised land
5. paperwork between you and me

paperwork between you and me

"I'm waiting on the line just across the border"

2. same singer and production style, this one also had a female choir in the background and sounded a little more upbeat:
   "they got the money and they got the guns
   but they can't stop the rising sun
   you gotta be like water
   you got to flow like the river"

does anyone have a direction or recognize these songs?
thank you!

BTW after a while I found the guy who was playing the music and asked him (nice salesman at a liquor shop, that had reggae blasting to the street lol), and he said it was just a playlist with various artists so he wasn't sure and sent me to look at his tablet, that had a youtube dj reggae mix going on, about an hour and a half of music - I'm listening to it right now, but the songs could have been at the end of the previous playlist, and also I'm not sure the mix has all the artists names... so it's kind of hard to weed out the specific songs from the bunch...