Love the ghetto youth dem fi dem achievements (yeah, yeah) Don't fight it, be happy fi dem (no, no, no) Addi Teacha, see me a say? (Gangster for life) (Anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway) (Cyaan hol' I an' I) Mek me tell you this Me go through the real hardcore, ghetto living Many a times, me sidung an' me reminiscing Me love me daddy bad, if him gone, me would a miss him The likkle weh him work fah, was ours fi the giving Me an' me four sisters, me bredda, an' me madda We never have nothin', just love fi one another Pants an' shirt me used to share with me brother Six a we inna one bed, with one cover, and we a no lover Those were the happiest days of my life If it ain't rough, it ain't right We used to bridge light from the light post JPS cut it off Those were the happiest days of my life If it ain't rough, it ain't right Why the system keep on pressuring you and me to get a family? We keep fighting Any means necessary fi surviving Dem no waan fi see the Garrison dem rising A ghetto youth with a brain is too frightening Dem waan fight we, but we keep fighting Any means necessary fi surviving Dem no love fi see the Garrison dem rising A ghetto youth with a brain is too frightening So dem keep fight we People used to say, better me sell inna market Iron balloon, so dem used to talk it Badmind see my life, waan take it Some say Mavado would never make it Now me haffi laugh, God know me deserve it War Lord tell me that I could See, it's the bad times, that makes the good times Feel, so good Those were the happiest days of my life If it ain't rough, it ain't right Why the system keep on pressuring you and me to get a family? We keep fighting Any means necessary fi surviving Dem no waan fi see the Garrison dem rising A ghetto youth with a brain is too frightening Dem waan fight we, but we keep fighting Any means necessary fi surviving Dem no love fi see the Garrison dem rising A ghetto youth with a brain is too frightening So dem keep fight we Me go through the real hardcore, ghetto living Many a times, me sidung an' me reminiscing Me love me daddy bad, if him gone, me would a miss him The likkle weh him work fah, was ours fi the giving Me an' me four sisters, me bredda, an' me madda We never have nothin', just love fi one another Pants an' shirt me used to share with me brother Six a we inna one bed, with one cover, and we a no lover Those were the happiest days of my life If it ain't rough, it ain't right We used to bridge light from the light post JPS cut it off Those were the happiest days of my life If it ain't rough, it ain't right Why the system keep on pressuring you and me to get a family? We keep fighting Any means necessary fi surviving Dem no waan fi see the Garrison dem rising A ghetto youth with a brain is too frightening Dem waan fight we, but we keep fighting Any means necessary fi surviving Dem no love fi see the Garrison dem rising A ghetto youth with a brain is too frightening So dem keep fight we People used to say, better me sell inna market Iron balloon, so dem used to talk it Badmind see my life, waan take it Some say Mavado would never make it Now me haffi laugh, God know me deserve it War Lord tell me that I could See, it's the bad times, that makes the good times Feel, so good Those were the happiest days of my life If it ain't rough, it ain't right Why the system keep on pressuring you and me to get a family? We keep fighting Any means necessary fi surviving Dem no waan fi see the Garrison dem rising A ghetto youth with a brain is too frightening Dem waan fight we, but we keep fighting Any means necessary fi surviving Dem no love fi see the Garrison dem rising A ghetto youth with a brain is too frightening So dem keep fight we