| Father Romi
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| Ghetto godfather
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| You know ghetto youths worldwide
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| Universal (the teacha)
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| Society (the teacha)
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| Forsake we (the teacha)
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| Dem nuh fell the pain we feel (the teacha)
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| The system (the teacha)
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| Nuh really care (the teacha)
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| If we live of we die
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| Laugh or we cry
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| If a sadness or joy
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| Wait, right before me, mi life a flash
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| The way time fly so fast mi nuh wear nuh watch
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| Mi youth wah guh school, me nuh have nuh cash
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| Mi insane like the madman weh search the trash
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| Hey
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| Mi black empress a sell the «snash»
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| The way how gogo club ram, nuh college match
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| Police deh pan ghetto youths like the bandage patch
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| A 4 months dem remand Jim fi the bag wid stash
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| Why?
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| Me haffi strap up every night so hard
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| Me wonda if death pretty cause life so hard
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| Eternity at hell a must my reward cah me a hustle
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| Fi me vehicle and must buy mi yaad
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| Me have the number 1 criminal record
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| A true jamaica people poor that’s why life tek hard
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| Every youth fi get a visa fi gwaan abroad
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| Cus we deh yah a suffer like a maga dog
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| I was born and raised in the ghetto
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| I was born and raised in the garrison
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| Nuff youths dead, more a suffer
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| Ghetto youths deserve better
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| Facts
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| Me decide seh me nah tun cruff
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| So we link Leign a big yaad and buy some stuff
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| Inna a bills and 50 bag me wrap dem up
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| The fuss day me touch the road feds lock me up
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| But wah
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| Me nah mek nuh bwoy me up
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| Me prefer hustle and rob fi dat — me buss
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| Mi nah bow fi drive nuh car, me prefer hop the bus
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| Cause a so ghetto youth fulla pride
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| Me poor but sell out life is not fi us
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| Dawg the strap mi fuss
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| Cause food haffi ever inna pot fi us
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| Anna road me touch, how the — fi rust
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| Me… love the youth dem so me teaching dem
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| But no, not the pastor wid the preaching dem
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| Me tell dem don’t rob nothing petty,
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| Rob sumn fi yuh rich, like Matalon and Lee Chin dem
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| I was born and raised in the ghetto
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| I was born and raised in the garrison
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| Nuff youths dead, more a suffer
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| Ghetto youths deserve better
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| Society, forsake we
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| Dem nuh fell the pain we feel
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| The system, nuh really care
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| If we live of we die
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| Nif a sadness or joy
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| I was born and raised in the ghetto
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| I was born and raised in the garrison
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| Nuff youths dead, more a suffer
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| Ghetto youths deserve better |