| When I’m down Jah lift mi up
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| When I get thirsty fill my cup
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| Getto youth nah give up no way
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| Seh we nah give up no!
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| When I’m down Jah lift mi up
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| When I get thirsty fill my cup yea
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| Seh mi nah give up no way
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| Seh mi nah give up
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| Mi see a dancehall a skyrize
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| Dem try and hold mi down
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| Dem friend passed and a gone and a… down
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| When mi ah go pray di dom?
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| Because deem shed it gaza… come
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| … pon di lady’s son… When mi a run di park don’t wanna touch a gun
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| Blood a run, another nine nine
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| Touch it but… ask jah
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| Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, tell me why-hy
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| Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, tell me
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| Why-hy!
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| From week she a work while friday dinner. |
| Why di bus boy hire and tip her?!
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| To fight and she say she wanna make the money just to buy some food fi di
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| family!
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| Ah! |
| Hear me out a now, you haffi hear dis… taking taxi was the latest
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| Acting so… and unite the ones that… them and warn di boy…
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| When a dancehall haffi hear dis aahhhhh jah
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| Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, tell me why-hy
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| Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why!
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| (why why why why)!
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| Mi nah want fi see another youth, inna mi gidiyan, hearing another Vybz,
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| singing another song, hoping one day, it won’t be long, but Jah will stop all
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| the separation. |
| Mi see another Mom, with shattered dream cah nothing can bring
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| back a man that dead yaaah Them take me any when dem kill children and I gonna
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| still go cryyyy that’s why
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| Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, tell me why-hy
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| Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why!
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| (why why why why)!
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| When I’m down Jah lift mi up, when I get thirsty fill my cup, getto youth nah
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| give up no way, seh we nah give up no, When I’m down Jah lift mi up,
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| when I get thirsty fill my cup yea seh mi nah give up no way, seh mi nah give
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| up
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| Oh why oh why, oh why oh why oh why, oh why oh why oh why tell me why-hy.
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| Oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh (why why why why)… |