Life We Living

[Intro]
Jamaica we need a way
Tell mi Mill
A how mi youth fi survive?
How mi fi send him go school in this time
If mi don't make money?
Di politician come pon tv
A show we this big pretty smile
Nuttin' nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)

[Hook]
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Is a betta way we seekin'
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Nuttin' nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)

[Verse 1]
Mi haffi hide from the landlord
Because mi owe 'bout four months rent
Weekend a come mi nuh have a red cent
Cry mi cry when mi hear mi son seh
"Daddy can you please buy me a Nike Air"
And di likkle money weh mi have done spend
Di last grand mi have mi pay di light
But Water Commission cut mi pipe again (Hmmm)

[Pre-Hook]
Di garrison need a betta way
And a betta life (fi wi pickney dem)
Society...
Please don't condemn di ghetto to hell, just...

[Hook]
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Is a betta way we seekin'
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Nuttin' nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)

[Verse 2]
Big woman ting
Notin nah gwaan
Ghetto youth haffi siddung pon di corna
Some a we a hustle
Some a beg a chump change
Society please make me see better days
Mi go fi buy a bagga frass but cigarette raise
All we a cry dem a gi we deaf ears
Then if di times so hard right now
Wah goh gawn inna the country inna ten years (Hmmm)

[Pre-Hook]
Di garrison need a betta way
And a betta life (fi we pickney dem)
Society
Please don't condemn di ghetto to hell, just...

[Hook]
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Is a betta way we seekin'
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Nuttin' nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)