Never know how times hard
'Til me see mi granny cut the toothpaste tube
Weh we a guh do?
Me really waan fi know wha' we a guh do?
Spend a bag of money pon school fee
What a ras if the pickney no pass
Weh we a guh do?
Not nice, wha' we a guh do?
We suffering everyday yah
'Cause life's so fucked up, mi brother
But weh we a go do?
Ghetto youth, weh we a guh do?
We work hard all week
And the money weh we make a fi send we back a work
Weh we a guh do?
Society, weh we a guh do?!
Hold on nuh!
Nuff of we deh yaso a suffer long time
But we never give up, yeah, we never stop trying
For we living in a perilous times
Dog a nyam dog, and blind a lead blind, oh
Jah know say da system yah set a way
And nobody no cater fi none a we
And we bawl say, we want house and car
But a the prison and the hearse dem set fi we
We suffering everyday yah
'Cause life's so fucked up, mi brother
But weh we a go do?
Ghetto youth, weh we a guh do?
We work hard all week
And the money weh we make a fi send we back a work
Weh we a guh do?
Society, weh we a guh do?!
'Mount of time weh me pree say fi, run away
Lef' yaso and go somewhere far away
But the only reason make me no lef' yet
A true me nuh have no weh fi go, so might as well me stay
But mi haffi wonder, weh we a guh do?
Government, tell me, weh we a guh do?
Me waan gwan easy, but even that hard fi do
We suffering everyday yah
'Cause life's so fucked up, mi brother
But weh we a go do?
Ghetto youth, weh we a guh do?
We work hard all week
And the money weh we make a fi send we back a work
Weh we a guh do?
Society, weh we a guh do?!
La la la
La la, la la la
Family...
I'm gonna make it for my family...
La la la
La la, la la la
Family...
I'm gonna make it for my family...
