Intro: Jah WI a suffer so long(so long) Don Weh di system a go do, fi ghetto youth Oyyy my lord Jah kno(Jah kno) (Jah kno)
Chorus: From me born We been sufferin Weh di system a provide fi di ghetto youth Prison and demand How dem wicked to wi so Dem waan wi dead like dawg How dem wicked to wi so (Mi dont know)
Through mi live inna di ghetto so Tell mi weh yuh haffi send mi mr.officer Prison and demand How dem wicked to wi so Dem waan wi dead like dawg How dem wicked to wi so
Verse 1: From inna slavery This a di situation Black people a face tribulation Dem rape our madda pon di plantation Fi mi four fadda a humiliation Three hundred years later Ghetto youths still haffi a fight fi di liberation Black man powa inna dissipation Inna this west minister legislation Judge and di jury deliberation Wid dutty Babylon inna collaboration Mek prison full every station Man a get sentence off of allegation Di system vex when a ghetto youth rise But when wi drop out, is a celebration Uptown pretty like Picture Palma But dung inna di ghetto inna degradation
Chorus: From me born We' ve been sufferin Weh di system a provide fi di ghetto youth Prison and demand How dem wicked to wi so Dem waan wi dead like dawg How dem wicked to wi so (Mi dont know)
Through mi live inna di ghetto so Tell mi weh yuh haffi send mi mr.officer Prison and demand How dem wicked to wi so Dem waan wi dead like dawg How dem wicked to wi so
Verse 2: Ghetto youth inna class Fi tek examination But dem cyan hold a meditation Tell mi now boss , how youth a go learn pon hungry belly fi get a education Daddy gone, separation Mummy haffi hustle fi yuh elevation Some a sell body fi pay di school fees, school fi she a look , not repetition Granny sick, waan medication She nuh see nuh payment preparation Plain board box fi she bury and dead Not even nuh flowers, fi decoration Slavery, dat cause sufferation So mi aks di Queen,fi mi reparation Tell di Pope seh, nuh apology Mi a aks Europe fi mi reparation
Chorus: From me born We' ve been sufferin Weh di system a provide fi ghetto youth Prison and demand How dem wicked to wi so Dem waan wi dead like dawg How dem wicked to wi so (Mi dont know)
Through mi live inna di ghetto so Tell mi weh yuh haffi send mi mr.officer Prison and demand How dem wicked to wi so Dem waan wi dead like dawg How dem wicked to wi so
From me born We' ve been sufferin Weh di system a provide fi ghetto youth Prison and demand How dem wicked to wi so Dem waan wi dead like dawg How dem wicked to wi so (Mi dont know)
Through mi live inna di ghetto so Tell mi weh yuh haffi send mi mr.officer Prison and demand How dem wicked to wi so Dem waan wi dead like dawg How dem wicked to wi so
Jah
WI a suffer so long(so long)
Don
Weh di system a go do, fi ghetto youth
Oyyy my lord
Jah kno(Jah kno) (Jah kno)
Chorus:
From me born
We been sufferin
Weh di system a provide fi di ghetto youth
Prison and demand
How dem wicked to wi so
Dem waan wi dead like dawg
How dem wicked to wi so
(Mi dont know)
Through mi live inna di ghetto so
Tell mi weh yuh haffi send mi mr.officer
Prison and demand
How dem wicked to wi so
Dem waan wi dead like dawg
How dem wicked to wi so
Verse 1:
From inna slavery
This a di situation
Black people a face tribulation
Dem rape our madda pon di plantation
Fi mi four fadda a humiliation
Three hundred years later
Ghetto youths still haffi a fight fi di liberation
Black man powa inna dissipation
Inna this west minister legislation
Judge and di jury deliberation
Wid dutty Babylon inna collaboration
Mek prison full every station
Man a get sentence off of allegation
Di system vex when a ghetto youth rise
But when wi drop out, is a celebration
Uptown pretty like Picture Palma
But dung inna di ghetto inna degradation
Chorus:
From me born
We' ve been sufferin
Weh di system a provide fi di ghetto youth
Prison and demand
How dem wicked to wi so
Dem waan wi dead like dawg
How dem wicked to wi so
(Mi dont know)
Through mi live inna di ghetto so
Tell mi weh yuh haffi send mi mr.officer
Prison and demand
How dem wicked to wi so
Dem waan wi dead like dawg
How dem wicked to wi so
Verse 2:
Ghetto youth inna class
Fi tek examination
But dem cyan hold a meditation
Tell mi now boss , how youth a go learn pon hungry belly fi get a education
Daddy gone, separation
Mummy haffi hustle fi yuh elevation
Some a sell body fi pay di school fees, school fi she a look , not repetition
Granny sick, waan medication
She nuh see nuh payment preparation
Plain board box fi she bury and dead
Not even nuh flowers, fi decoration
Slavery, dat cause sufferation
So mi aks di Queen,fi mi reparation
Tell di Pope seh, nuh apology
Mi a aks Europe fi mi reparation
Chorus:
From me born
We' ve been sufferin
Weh di system a provide fi ghetto youth
Prison and demand
How dem wicked to wi so
Dem waan wi dead like dawg
How dem wicked to wi so
(Mi dont know)
Through mi live inna di ghetto so
Tell mi weh yuh haffi send mi mr.officer
Prison and demand
How dem wicked to wi so
Dem waan wi dead like dawg
How dem wicked to wi so
From me born
We' ve been sufferin
Weh di system a provide fi ghetto youth
Prison and demand
How dem wicked to wi so
Dem waan wi dead like dawg
How dem wicked to wi so
(Mi dont know)
Through mi live inna di ghetto so
Tell mi weh yuh haffi send mi mr.officer
Prison and demand
How dem wicked to wi so
Dem waan wi dead like dawg
How dem wicked to wi so