[Verse 1]
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Now every day another youth hitch up in a gutter, mmm
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Now I man talk and I man stutter
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Cant understand say you fi try and help the youth them make them get big, what
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[Chorus]
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Say how much more ghetto youth have fi suffer
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How much more live without bread and butter
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How much more body we a go discover
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Have fi live together every brother and we sister
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Stop suffer
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[Verse 2]
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Me say
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Mm, Jah pan the land a so we live a so we die
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Cant find the answer to the question why
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Me say the sky is the limit so you try touch the sky
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Put your trust in the God now Jah rasta for I…selasi
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…Hear how me cry and give me a bly
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Never trouble you so why you want shoot the i
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Too much wicked man deh bout ya oh me oh my
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Now feel it inna me heart when a siren a cry
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[Chorus]
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How much more ghetto youth have fi suffer
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How much more live without bread and butter
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How much more body we a go discover
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Have fi live together every brother and we sister
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Stop suffer
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[Verse 3]
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Me say
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Easy no youth you love fi shoot
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Now you deh a prison a suck off man flute
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Mama say you brut you living like a coot
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Jah Jah never send no life pan no parachute
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Bad company make the i take the wrong route
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Now you de behind the bar in a crisp stripe suit
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And everyday another man a try pick your fruit
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Now them have you pan them nosel like a brand new recruit
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[Chorus]
~#**************#~
How much more ghetto youth have fi suffer
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How much more live without bread and butter
~#**************#~
How much more body we a go discover
~#**************#~
Have fi live together every brother and we sister
~#**************#~
Stop suffer
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[Verse 4]
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Like a butter pon a piece of hot bread
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A so your blood run when a shot lick your head
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Dont you think its better living than it is to be dead
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And in the Bible it is written and so it should be said
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Thou shall not kill neither blood must shed
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And yet still you wouldnt mind full me up the lead
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And tell me if your conscience no burn you when you go a bed
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And now you cant sleep you de a think bout the dead
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[Chorus]
~#**************#~
How much more ghetto youth have fi suffer
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How much more live without bread and butter
~#**************#~
How much more body we a go discover
~#**************#~
Have fi live together every brother and we sister
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Stop suffer
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[Verse 5]
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Life it rough inna the ghetto
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Everyday me neighborhood a run like soweto
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Over the badness is like you no let go
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The other day them shot me bredrin in front of esso
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Take away him wallet with about twenty peso
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After them shot him them dump him over there so
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And all me a warn is like me never say so
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[Chorus]
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How much more ghetto youth have fi suffer
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How much more live without bread and butter
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How much more body we a go discover
~#**************#~
Have fi live together every brother and we sister
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Stop suffer
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[Verse 6]
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Me say
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Mm, Jah pan the land a so we live a so we die(ME)
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Cant find the answer to the question why
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Me say the sky is the limit so you try touch the sky
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Put your trust in the God now Jah rasta for I…selasi
~#**************#~
…Hear how me cry and give me a bly
~#**************#~
Never trouble you so why you want shoot the i
~#**************#~
Too much wicked man deh bout ya oh me oh my
~#**************#~
Now feel it inna me heart when a siren a cry
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[Chorus]
~#**************#~
How much more ghetto youth have fi suffer
~#**************#~
How much more live without bread and butter
~#**************#~
How much more body we a go discover
~#**************#~
Have fi live together every brother and we sister
~#**************#~
Stop suffer
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[Verse 7]
~#**************#~
Me say
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Easy no youth you love fi shoot
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Now you deh a prison a suck off man flute
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Mama say you brut you living like a coot
~#**************#~
Jah Jah never send no life pan no parachute
~#**************#~
And bad company make the i take the wrong route
~#**************#~
Now you de behind the bar inna one crisp stripe suit
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Everyday another man want now try pick your fruit
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And now the they have you pan them nosel like a new brand recruit
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[Chorus]
~#**************#~
How much more ghetto youth have fi suffer
~#**************#~
How much more live without bread and butter
~#**************#~
How much more body we a go discover
~#**************#~
Have fi live together every brother and we sister
~#**************#~
Stop suffer
~#**************#~
[Verse 8]
~#**************#~
Like a butter pon a piece of hot bread
~#**************#~
A so your blood run when a shot lick your head
~#**************#~
Dont you think its better living than it is to be dead
~#**************#~
And in the Bible it is written and so it should be said
~#**************#~
Thou shall not kill neither blood must shed
~#**************#~
And yet still you wouldnt mind full I man up a lead
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And your conscience no burn you anytime you go a bed
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And now you cant sleep you a think bout the dead
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[Chorus]
~#**************#~
And how much more ghetto youth have fi suffer
~#**************#~
How much more live without bread and butter
~#**************#~
How much more body we a go discover
~#**************#~
Have fi live together every brother and we sister
~#**************#~
Stop suffer
