
Date of issue: 26.07.2009
Record label: VP
Song language: English
Trading Places |
Eh! |
Switch it, just use your imagination. |
Ghetto living uptown, uptown living |
in the garrison |
Eeh! |
It wouldn’t be easy, could never be easy, not at all, ahhh. |
Yeah! |
A nuh disrespect people living other peoples footsteps, it’s more like a |
reality check yuh nah mean |
Imagine uptown people living in the ghetto fi a week |
Down town move gone inna the uptown town area things nice proper English dem a |
speak. |
Uptown people could a neva stand it when the pipe dem a leak |
First of all dem nuh know how fi bridge light nuh wah use the igloo with the |
ice them use to fridge life |
Picture Portia a live a Spain, picture Bruce Golding live a hundred lane, |
picture me way richer dan Matterland while him live a Kentire pon piece a |
capture land, picture Michael Lee-Chin hold off the gully side him and the |
thugs dem a bleach so yuh cah go beside, picture Brush Stewart a wipe car glass |
and a ask fi the change weh yuh got, no |
It wouldn’t be easy trading places with the ghetto, it would be easy to hear |
rich people voice a echo it wouldn’t be easy it would be nice to see us rise |
give dem a surprise and mek dem knoe we also can live these life |
Imagine uptown people living in the ghetto fi a week |
Down town move gone inna the uptown town area things nice proper English dem a |
speak. |
Uptown people could a neva stand it when the pipe dem a leak |
First of all dem nuh know how fi bridge light nuh wah use the igloo with the |
ice them use to fridge life |
What if Sizzla was commissioner Police could never arrest me fi a spliff, |
If alliance was Nation Security nuh body could never violate or snitch, |
suppose uptown people affi nyam chicken back and tun cornmeal go see dem wid |
finger a lick, now, imagine if ghetto youth a go a di ATM fi go draw cash |
uptown youths a pocket dem a pick, no, hey! |
Me say we cah separate we self |
uptown down town come mek we elevate we self, street knowledge mek me educate |
me self fi be wise, say, eh, Me say we cah separate we self uptown down town |
come mek we elevate we self, street knowledge mek me educate me self fi be |
wiser. |
It wouldn’t be easy trading places with the ghetto, it would be easy to |
hear rich people voice a echo it wouldn’t be easy it would be nice to see us |
rise give dem a surprise and mek dem knoe we also can live these life |
Imagine uptown people living in the ghetto fi a week |
Down town move gone inna the uptown town area things nice proper English dem a |
speak. |
Uptown people could a neva stand it when the pipe dem a leak |
First of all dem nuh know how fi bridge light nuh wah use the igloo with the |
ice them use to fridge life. |
Picture dat, it wouldn’t be easy, wouldn’t be nice, |
no, could never be easy, trading places could’ntbe nice, no, eehh, Busy! |
Could’ntbe nice, believe me nuh, wouldn’t be nice, people. |
Imagine uptown |
people living in the ghetto fi a week |
Down town move gone inna the uptown town area things nice proper English dem a |
speak |
It’s so real, make me just talk da part ya |
Listen me keenly; |
picture PJ at the studio a look a buss as a dj |
Picture Pickersgill at the bus stop a bawl seh the sun hot dem eva guh tru dat |
Hear mi nuh! |
Unite, live BUSY! |
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