Survival

Woaaaaah Eeeee
Gringo Lifestyle enuh
To the world

Father show me the way
A nuff juvenile inna clay
Hmmmmmm
Ghetto youths stand firm

Father show me the way
A nuff juvenile inna clay
A nuff mother cry every day
A nuff sorrow ghetto youths feel

Father show me the way
Many nights pon me knee me a pray
Fi the youths them see a better day
Poverty me wa escape
Yeaaah

Uptown mansion
Downtown board house
Me member this me granny cook pon the coal stove
Ghetto life yo don't pretty like rose
Youths dont stop fight till your eyes closed
Yo a whole leep a things we haffi fix
Youths don't put your trust inna politics
All when a sugar and water you haffi mix
Me give thanks everyday

Father show me the way
A nuff juvenile inna clay
A nuff mother cry every day
A nuff sorrow ghetto youths feel

Father show me the way
Many nights pon me knee me a pray
Fi the youths them see a better day
Poverty me wa escape
Yeaaah

Me a cry fi the poor and needy
Me a tell you ghetto life don't easy
Everyday the youths dem feel it
The world it want a change and me mean it
The politician them a move too greedy
Them get the money fi the road and dem steal it
Them gi the youths dem gun and tell them say fi squeeze it
Yeahhh

Father show me the way
A nuff juvenile inna clay
A nuff mother cry every day
A nuff sorrow ghetto youths feel

Father show me the way
Many nights pon me knee me a pray
Fi the youths them see a better day
Poverty me wa escape
Yeaaah

Uptown mansion
Downtown board house
Me member this me granny cook pon the coal stove
Ghetto life yo don't pretty like rose
Youths dont stop fight till your eyes closed
Yo a whole leep a things we haffi fix
Youths don't put your trust inna politics
All when a sugar and water you haffi mix
Me give thanks everyday

Father show me the way
A nuff juvenile inna clay
A nuff mother cry every day
A nuff sorrow ghetto youths feel

Father show me the way
Many nights pon me knee me a pray
Fi the youths them see a better day
Poverty me wa escape
Yeahhhh