tell mi why ghetto, ghetto youth dem nuh waan wi survive?
but mi memba wah mi mother seh neva stop try memba wah mi mother seh di limit is the sky
[chorus:] realize ghetto child one day we haffi make it all yuh see dem a fight the world is above us fi take it nuff time we gone wi bed at night hungry and so frustrated dem waan mi fi give up the fight
but mi memba wah mi mother seh
[verse 1:] da world yah no level rich people happy while di poor miserable but yuh fi know which part yuh a choose one road fi jehovah one road fi di devil mi fadda work 24/7 fi pay off di mortgage it coulda dun fast but di faster again mi granny money and tell har nuh worry bout hurt him a bring all go heaven dont believe
[chorus:] realize ghetto child one day we haffi make it all yuh see dem a fight the world is above us fi take it nuff time we gone wi bed at night hungry and so frustrated dem waan mi fi give up the fight
but mi memba wah mi mother seh
[verse 2:] achieve succes as a ghetto yute yuh fi aim fi di best society nuh like yute wey a teach ghetto yute fi be wise dem will put yuh to rest dem dun Martin Luther dem dun Malcom X di poor got fi flee wise up di US so black liberation is a slow process but Selassie I philosophy mi a profess please believe
[chorus:] realize ghetto child one day we haffi make it all yuh see dem a fight the world is above us fi take it nuff time we gone wi bed at night hungry and so frustrated dem waan mi fi give up the fight
but mi memba wah mi mother seh
[verse 1:] da world yah no level rich people happy while di poor miserable but yuh fi know which part yuh a choose one road fi jehovah one road fi di devil mi fadda work 24/7 fi pay off di mortgage it coulda dun fast but di faster again mi granny money and tell har nuh worry bout hurt him a bring all go heaven dont believe
[chorus:] realize ghetto child one day we haffi make it all yuh see dem a fight the world is above us fi take it nuff time we gone wi bed at night hungry and so frustrated dem waan mi fi give up the fight
but mi memba wah mi mother seh tell mi why ghetto, ghetto youth dem nuh waan wi survive?
but mi memba wah mi mother seh neva stop try memba wah mi mother seh di limit is the sky
[chorus:] realize ghetto child one day we haffi make it all yuh see dem a fight the world is above us fi take it nuff time we gone wi bed at night hungry and so frustrated dem waan mi fi give up the fight
but mi memba wah mi mother sehTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
