These Streets

Yes rasta
Di I a deh yah a give a thanks yuh nuh
Bloodclaat

Inna di ghetto man grow weh poverty leggo
Big man u affi watch how u a stray deh suh
People scatter when dem hear di old iron echo
Harder di battle tougher it a mek yuh
Yuh can't weak juvenile u affi seek knowledge
Mi never finish high school mi guh street college
Round yah suh politicians don't keep promise
Is like a dem alone waa reap cabbage
Little youth better u guh Grand Gala with yuh grandfather
Big matic yuh waa hold and bleach pon border
Is like yuh waa yuh mother money spend pon lawyer
Or a casket if yuh guh round di Don order
Yuh hide when yuh fi wash plate and sweap yard
A road yuh waa fi roam like u a street dog
Him run away fi 10 years pon a greencard
Him get deport and dead as him reach yard

These streets nuh nice
Keep yuh mouth and yuh keep yuh life
If yuh harden yuh ears
Yuh shorten yuh days
U wi lay down pon a brick of ice
Mi granny tell mi pressure buss pipe
Mi gaa mi bed hungry nuff night
Mi naa sell out
Mi prefer hold it out
Wah mi nuh have mi will do without

Hear mi nuh Mr Barnacle
Inna di studio man gone little
With some guinness and some chronic too
Man a genuine article historical chronicle
Dem waa wi life breakdown inna di least particle
Dem can't stop we even if dem get di contract
Dem shoot but a blank shot
Dem loose by a long shot
Dem waa fi drain yuh energy yuh links and yuh contacts
Wi find out weh dem camp at dem ends a get ransack
Di truth
If yuh waa fi kill di tree just kill di root
Everyday a di same thing it coming like it just a loop
But dem naa guh see wi mute
Dem waa mi fall suh dem tie di 2 lace pon mi 2 boot
Villa mi a keep mi eyes open
Life is not a game weh yuh activate with a little token
This is di story about di corrupted system weh mi grow up in

These streets nuh nice
Keep yuh mouth and yuh keep yuh life
If yuh harden yuh ears
Yuh shorten yuh days
U wi lay down pon a brick of ice
Mi granny tell mi pressure buss pipe
Mi gaa mi bed hungry nuff night
Mi naa sell out
Mi prefer hold it out
Wah mi nuh have mi will do without

Inna di ghetto man grow weh poverty leggo
Big man u affi watch how u a stray deh suh
People scatter when dem hear di old iron echo
Harder di battle tougher it a mek yuh
Yuh can't weak juvenile u affi seek knowledge
Mi never finish high school mi guh street college
Round yah suh politicians don't keep promise
Is like a dem alone waa reap cabbage
Little youth better u guh Grand Gala with yuh grandfather
Big matic yuh waa hold and bleach pon border
Is like yuh waa yuh mother money spend pon lawyer
Or a casket if yuh guh round di Don order
Yuh hide when yuh fi wash plate and sweap yard
A road yuh waa fi roam like u a street dog
Him run away fi 10 years pon a greencard
Him get deport and dead as him reach yard

Yes rasta
Di I a deh yah a give a thanks yuh nuh