(Chorus)
Ghetto youth tribulation
We get a bad reputation
But mi nah stop hustle fi the paper
Society mi asking a question
Mi a ask as a ghetto youth
Please listen my situation
Mi feel poverty and starvation
Then a wa yo expect mi fi do
(Verse 1)
Mi waan food paw mi plate like another man
Mi a hustle and feds just a follow man
Mi haffi get mi hands dirty fi set a plan
So by next year mi can be a better man
Ghetto youth haffi wise like Solomon
Think a likkle bit a time dem calla man
Demands, demands, from one jail to another one
All a mi money gone in a mi lawyer hand
Your honor then if me gone a prison
A who a go care fi mi young son
Babylon still a fight ghetto youth
But mi know one day better must come
From London city to Kingston
A nough juvenile get fling down
The system no care if wi live or die
Mi call it
(Repeat Chorus)
(Verse 2)
The system a pree mi
Dem a seh mi is a dan no call mi so
True mi help ghetto youth weh no have hi no
Why yuh do that mister officer
Weh yo come a search in a mi house so fa
Wa yo waan lock up Shorty fa
Yo no si mi wid no gun hi no officer
So why yo waan put one paw mi fa
Your honor then if me gone a prison
A who a go care fi mi young son
Babylon still a fight ghetto youth
But mi know one day better must come
From London city to Kingston
A nough juvenile get fling down
The system no care if wi live or die
Mi call it
(Repeat Chorus)
Nothing we can do to help now but pray for leniancy
Yes we can do something we can continue to support him we as people have a voice