© 2024 Text by @ChaHal707 🖋️✨ and @Jaden writes 🏴☠️🔥 All rights reserved. 💼🚫 Copying our songs is prohibited. 🚫🎵 However, covers are welcome 🎤🎶 as long as we are credited as the owner. 🙌👑 Below, you'll find the clear lyrics. ♥️📜 ------------------------------- [Intro] ay,dem seh, "keep vibes high, nah dip low," but truth haffi blaze, mi caan lie so. dem a preach sweet talk, seh fi mek it bright, but light cyaan fix darkness inna di night. smilin’ faces, yet di heart dem cold, poverty deh yah, but di story nah told. "stay hopeful," dem chant, but mi seh, "fi what?" hope cyaan fill belly or heal di cut. mi nah deal wid illusions, mi deal wid fact, di system design fi keep di poor man back. so mi rise up fi talk weh dem nah waan hear, raw truth pon di riddim, mek di message clear. [Verse 1] look pon di streets, tell mi wah yuh see, di hungry, di broken, lost humanity. dem seh, “smile through it all,” but mi caan comply, how yuh smile when di hungry belly cry? dem buildin’ skyscrapers, tall fi di eleet, while di man pon di sidewalk, him caan find a seat. politicians talk, but no solution dem bring, di rich a sip champagne, while di poor feel sting. empty promises float like smoke inna breeze, but di homeless dem shiver, dem caan feel ease. inna di land of plenty, di greed run deep, while di children a di street have no place fi sleep. [Hook] dem seh, "hold faith, keep di vibes alive," but hungry belly nah mek man survive. "stay strong," dem preach, but mi seh, "fi who?" strength cyaan fix when di rent overdue. mi nah chant no dream, mi a talk real pain, where sunshine cyaan reach, an' di skies bring rain. inna di struggle, mi voice haffi rise, fi expose di lies weh dem try disguise. Humanity. Insanity. Ignorant calamity. Advocate brutality, fi what? Eventuality. Eventually, you grow fi see— Street life casualties, To di idea, pay for your life. Street life, not even a penny fi survive. Can’t pay di bills, can’t pay fi mi life. Less than human? Might as well die. Paint di picture, criminality. Criminalize me—validate yuh feelings, Healing yuh guilt, act like yuh monster ways Don’t haunt you still. Say mi smoke weed? Inhumanely shove me further pon di streets. Say mi do this to mi self? While mi cry for help. Paint di picture, talkin' ’bout change, Where di change? Exchange di word "change" fi hate. Di growth of hate—same struggle, same bubble, Blood, humanity—it's what we share. Look pon di bank, yuh strugglin’ fi gas inna yuh tank. “Get a job, yuh likkle beggar,” Beggin' fi money fi drugs, thugs pon di streets and such. But mi? Mi just a look fi love, Lookin’ fi human touch, Lookin’ fi a likkle wealth fi pull mi self from di gutter. Yuh shutter as yuh walk past, Can’t even fathom seh mi ah human? Huh? Painted picture—ugly one. Welcome to di world we live in. Not just America, but everywhere starves dem kids. Everywhere look pon blacks as not deservin’ fi live. Ignoring di oppression, systemic chains— New slaves. “Not one of us,” yuh seh, “Dirty rag bag, haggard pon di streets. Leave me be, yuh dirty pig.” Obviously, mi choose dis life mi live? Blame mi fi di racism, di government, di oppression? Nah. Mi blame di ignorance. Every day yuh pass mi pon di streets—is dat how humans behave? It’s almost amazing, likkle sheep following di herd. Mi existence blurred, mi image burned. Elitist? Such an ugly word. Ugly person fi be. Wouldn’t want fi help mi kids or mi family. Not even a likkle pretty penny fi spare mi. Shoot mi now, cops wouldn’t bat an eye— Yuh wanna know why? Mi nah pay mi bills, so mi nah deserve mi life. Mi live pon di streets, so mi deserve fi die? [Outro] dem seh, "help dem," but who really care? walk past di homeless like dem nah deh there. dem build skyscrapers, leave di streets bare, gold chandeliers while di cold winds tear. billionaire pockets fat, stomachs empty at dawn, di system designed fi keep dem pawn. dem caan dream, no pillow, no lawn, just concrete beds till di soul is gone. no more room in hell, di dead walk free, hauntin' di planet, we blind, we caan see. ghost of humanity, lost in greed, a plague on di world, fueled by need. hope? a joke when di world so grim, smile fi di camera, but di light nah dim. dem a preach love while di hatred brim, dark truth a di hymn weh mi sing fi him.
