| Things get sticky ina earth
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| Cya buy a pants and mi cya buy a shirt
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| Man search and cya get no work
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| What am gona do
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| What am I to do
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| Things get hard ina earth
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| Nuff time mi see mama bawl cah she hurt
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| Cya even find di offering fi gi church
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| What we going to do
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| What we going to do
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| Life hard we affi face it
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| A nuff youth deh out a road a waste it
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| Nowadays it’s all about survival
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| And wen dem youth ya mek it mi affi rate it
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| Tings no stay like one time again
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| When you could a call pon a real good fren
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| A baay hand to mouth cya borrow cya lend
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| A problem when youths wa money fi spend
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| Cause right now
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| Give thanks fi di likle weh u got my youth
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| And if a one dumplin ina yuh pot my youth
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| Try no sell out keep yuh heads up and give thanks no matter how di food mind
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| youth
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| Some a look a fast car so dem get a fast hook
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| Cya mek dem draw you out no get caught up
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| Some a watch people tings an a pree
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| Some a dem tun dem back some go down pon knee
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| Yuh know seh |