Safe N Sound

A-wise ghetto youth, start wise up now (Warning, warning, warning, warning, warning) hey Rise ghetto youth, start rise up now (hear me) Burn sufferation and burn poverty Mek dem know a-evolution time A-Babylon invent crime We need more love flowing in the streets Children a-smile an' a-skin dem teeth (hey) More love flowing in the town Whole community safe 'n' sound (hey) Love flowing in the street Work haffi gwan and food haffi eat (hey) More love flowing in the town, uh People tell me how me sound? Lawd a-mercy All of a sudden everybody a-gun man State of emergency and a-bag a-tension Politician don't have no development plan That's why every community need a one don (hey) One order, everybody fi unite Nyahbinghi Order, Rastafari Nuttin' nuh precious like di youth dem life (hey) That a-one thing nuh mount a-money cyan buy Chat dem a-chat, a-talk 'bout dem a-bad man A-run up dem mouth an' gwan The guns that they gave you are tools that they use to Break good communities down (break us down) A-mus' the boom and the rum Fly up in your head, my son Mek you forget seh you a king And start bleach out your skin And a-flex like a bloodclaa clown Ah-ha, children a-smile an' a-skin dem teeth More love flowing in the town Whole community safe 'n' sound More love flowing in the street Work haffi gwan and food haffi eat More love flowing in the town Come on, Jamaica, tell me how me sound? (Ay) Look how much a-we son weh dem kill already (kill already) Look how much juvenile dem killing again Future Shelly-Ann Fraisers, Usain Bolts (track star) We doctors, we lawyers, and all the singer dem (singer dem) African people, we lock di world already And through the powers of Haile I, we a-win again (winning) We up, and we ready, di Natty firm and heavy (rock so) Diss Rastafari and everything a-dead Chat dem a-chat and a-talk 'bout dem bad And a-run up dem mouth an' gwan (and gwan) Prostituting we daughters, we son dem get slaughtered They're breaking our families down (break us down) A-mus' the boom and the rum Weh di dutty government bring come Mek-mek you figet seh you are queen And start bleach out your skin And a-flex like a fool Winsome Or it could be many years of brainwashing Or the stew peas with the pigtail (hey) It even might be these pills that they're poppin' Mek everybody feel like a big devil (hey) Haffi face the truth and we cyaan' hide from it Haffi heal we people, it's inevitable (hey) 'Cause the poison food a-mek di youth brain damage Coupled with the crap they're watching on the cable Pastor no-'ave no answer The youth dem inna di church, sick and dying from cancer Marijuana is the healing And a-long time church people a-laugh after Rasta Jamaica government invest millions a dollars To destroy we landrace sativa Bring in seeds from California, and then, they legalize ganja