| Yo mi life sweet, but it nuh sweet enough
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| It’s like me need a work pon a sweetie truck
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| Every single day of the week, inna di street it rough
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| And me waan mi life fi merry, not only when mi see Christmas
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| So waan keep me down, but me keeping up
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| Nuff a say dat dem no like me, dem preach it nuff
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| But me know dat Jah Jah guide me from evilous
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| Genius!
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| Stephen mi nah wait no more
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| I know that time is now
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| Right now the time is now
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| Who say mi lost it?, mi find it now
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| And every youth keep holding on
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| One day your time will come
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| The system a tie we down
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| Time will come
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| Right now a winning time
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| So gwan go tell the finish line
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| Haffi go hard fi weh wiewant, G, in this time
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| We family fi living fine, yeah
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| Waan mi mother life fi sweet, sweet, sweet
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| So mi a pree the thing deep, deep, deep
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| Haffi pay the rent in this week
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| So mi hustle hard day and night in these street
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| Mi a pray and a hope pon that
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| Tired a the old house wid the roach and rats
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| Mi a live but mi life fi be more than that
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| A mi fi a lock the place like a old padlock |
| Money fi a pile and mi put more pon that
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| Visa in a mi book and mi a tour pon that
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| Haffi wave the banner mek you proud Jam Rock
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| I’m very sure of that
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| Time perilous, people evilous
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| When you a rise a nuh everybody waan see you buss
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| Leviticus, keep it religious
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| Waan you bless mi Jah, Jah, continue filled mi cup
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| Time now fi we turn the table
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| Reach fi you goals cause yo goals deh near you
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| Everybody have the pressure fi bear to
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| Da song yah people can relate to
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| All when the time is rough, yeah
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| The hill, we a climb it up deh
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| So why give up?
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| When the victory, we a go find it up deh
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| Mi nah trod pon the earth fi lose
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| One day mi must change mi dirty shoes
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| From mi life every germs remove
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| Dem mussi never heard the news |