| Where you gonna run now that the Gideon start
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| Where you gonna run now that the Gideon, Gideon start
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| When all the money that you robbed from ghetto youths ain’t enough to fly you
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| to mars
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| When the system you defend start brake down like a leg-go
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| When the whole world becomes a ghetto
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| That’s when you realized
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| The whole a wi a ghetto people
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| Ghetto people
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| Suh tell mister boasty slave don’t forget the people
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| Ghetto people, ghetto people
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| Call dem all
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| Remember highly Selassie never left the people
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| No time at all, not even an inch
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| Gimmi a pound a the macka height and no grabber
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| Meck mi cool and satta pon the riddim proper
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| Every youth top shatter part the zig zagger
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| Meck mi show you what a clock a strike in a Jam-Rock yah
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| Politician dem a chat a tongue sharp like macka
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| Dem nuh have no vision dem a scammer
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| Wi a wave the banner
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| Wa kind a honor unuh naw treat the youth wid honor
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| Meck mi show unuh a vibes
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| Nuh true yo living up town when the banks fall down
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| Then the whole a wi a ghetto youths
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| A me pore you rich but when the pole shift
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| Then the whole a wi a ghetto youths
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| And me black, you white, but when famine strike
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| Then the whole a wi a ghetto youths
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| On that day when you trade yo roserice for a grain of rice
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| That’s when you realize seh
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| Warning to all the future leaders
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| Dem don’t treat the youths like a different creature
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| Them seek a friend before you need a friend
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| Those children in the streets a wi teacher dem
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| Future soldiers and politician
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| But a bet you cannot seet
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| Meck mi adjust yo folly vision
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| Yo eyes blurred by the guns and ammunition
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| Suh meck mi show unuh a vibes
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| When the night turn day
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| White house turn grey
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| Then the whole a wi a ghetto youths
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| And me walk you drive
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| But when their’s no oil
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| Then the whole a wi a ghetto youths
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| And when you cyaa tell Ligony different from Tivoly
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| Then yo si seh wi a ghetto youths
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| When you can’t tell Avendail fro down town parade
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| Then a then you realize seh the whole a wi |