| Poverty, still nuff
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| Life road, still rough
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| When the bills, dem build up
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| You maybe get your grill cut
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| Yeah, 'cause it’s a jungle out there
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| Nothing like chill out
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| Nuff people get kill but
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| I wish there was a way
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| That was better than this
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| Hungry man ah angry man
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| And him no get a sandwich
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| So weh you feel a go happen
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| When him can write and read but forgotten
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| Am I, seeing from some different eyes
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| I could never have a piece of mind
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| How does the people in the street survive
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| When we can hardly get a piece a pie
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| Wah 'bout the youth dem living prison life
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| Follow wrong and never listen right
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| Before you use your mouth and criticize
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| Tek a look over 'pon fi we side
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| Is like you prepare fi things get worse, you know
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| So you bring more police 'pon your turf, you know
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| You can run, but where to go
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| Jah nah sleep, seh Jah see it, yeah
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| How long you think you plan a go work
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| When as the righteous we honour no dirt
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| You, feel like you on top of the world
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| But the time a come fi ghetto youth did properly earn
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| Seeing from some different eyes
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| I could never have a piece of mind
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| How does the people in the street survive
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| When we can hardly get a piece a pie
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| Wah 'bout the youth dem living prison life
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| Follow wrong and never listen right
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| Before you use your mouth and criticize
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| Tek a look over 'pon fi we side
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| Can do di intro now
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| So weh mi did a try fi say is that
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| The youth dem a get wiser
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| Fi identify dem lies yah
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| You see weh me a seh
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| Dem wish me never have dem eyes yah, ah ha
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| Jah mek me see deep within
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| Spread the message 'pon a sweet rididm
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| Before you use your mouth and criticize
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| Tek a look over 'pon fi we side
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| Oh, oh — oh, oh, oh, oh — yeah
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| Tek a look over 'pon fi we side
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| Am I seeing from some different eyes
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| I could never have a piece of mind
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| How does the people in the street survive
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| When we can hardly get a piece a pie
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| Wah 'bout the youth dem living prison life
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| Follow wrong and never listen right
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| Before you use your mouth and criticize
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| Tek a look over 'pon fi we side |