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 mek money.
Di politician come 'pon TV,
A show we this big pretty smile,
Notin nuh funny.. (nuh funny, nuh funny)

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;
Notin nuh funny.. (nuh funny, nuh funny)

Mi haffi hide from the landlord
Becah 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 wata
Commission cut mi pipe again, hmmm..

Di garrison need a betta way
And a betta life (fi we pickney dem)
Society, please don't condemn di ghetto to hell

Just 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;
Notin nuh funny.. (nuh funny, nuh funny)

Big woman ting, notin nah gwaan,
Ghetto youth haffi sidung 'pon di corna.
Some a we a hustle, some a beg a chump change,
Society please mek this better days.
Mi go fi buy a bagga frass, but cigarette raise,
All we a cry dem a gih we tuff days.
Then if di times so hard right now,
From mi born inna the country,
And mi neva ten years, hmmm..

Di garrison need a betta way
And a betta life (fi we pickney dem)
Society, please don't condemn di ghetto to hell

Just 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;
Notin nuh funny.. (nuh funny, nuh funny)

Tell mi Mill,
A how mi youth fi survive?
How mi fi send him go school, in this time?
If mi don't mek money.
Di politician come 'pon TV,
A show we this big pretty smile,
Notin nuh funny.. (nuh funny, nuh funny)

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;
Notin nuh funny.. (nuh funny, nuh funny)

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;
Notin nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny..)