Intro:

Life, life,life, nowadays inna life, life

It harder..hey Zum(Zum)

Chorus:

Things get sticky inna earth

Cyan buy a pants and we cyan buy a shirt(buy a shirt)

Man a search and cyan get no work

What Im gonna do, what I might to do(do)

Things get hard inna earth

Nuff time me see mama bawl cah she hurt

Cyan even find di offerin fi gi curch

What we gonna do, what we gonna do

Verse 1:

Life hard we affi face it(face it)

A nuff youth deh out a road a waste it

Nowadays it's all about survival

A when dem youth ya make it mi affi rate it(rate it)

Things no stay like one time again

When u coulda call pon a real good friend

A bare hand-to-mouth cyan borrow cyan lend

Ah problem when youths waan money fi spend

Cause right now

Chorus:

Things get sticky inna earth

Cyan buy a pants and we cyan buy a shirt(buy a shirt)

Man a search and cyan get no work

What im gonna do, what I might to do(do)

Things get hard inna earth

Nuff time me see mama bawl cah she hurt

Cyan even find di offerin fi gi curch

What we gonna do, what we gonna do

Verse 2:

(Yeah)

Give thanks fi di likkle weh u got my youth

And if one dumplin inna yuh pot my youth(my youth)

Try no sell out, keep yuh heads up

And give thanks nuh matta how the food min-ute

Some a look a fast cars so dem get a fast wuk

Cyan mek dem drive or nuh get caught up

Some a watch people things and a pree

Some a dem tun dem back some go down pon knee

Yuh know seh..

Chorus:

Things get sticky inna earth

Cyan buy a pants and we cyan buy a shirt(buy a shirt)

Man a search and cyan get no work

What Im gonna do, what I might to do(do)

Things get hard inna earth

Nuff time me see mama bawl cah she hurt

Cyan even find di offerin fi gi curch

What we gonna do, what we gonna do

Life(life) life life

Nowadays inna life, life

It harder

What we gonna do