Safe N Sound

Ah wise ghetto yute, start wise up now
(Warning, warning, warning, warning, warning) Hey
Rise ghetto yute start rise up now, hear me
Bun sufferation and bun poverty
Mek dem know ah evolution time
Ah Babylon invent crime

We need more love flowing in the streets
Children ah smile an' ah skin dem teeth (hey)
More love flowing in the town
Whole community safe and 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 ah mercy
All of a sudden everybody a gun man
State of emergency and ah bag ah 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 yute dem life (hey)
Dat ah one thing nuh mount ah money cyan buy

Chat dem ah chat, ah talk 'bout dem a bad man
Ah 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)
Ah mus' the Boom and the rum
Fly up in your head my son
Mek you forget seh you a king
And start bleach out yuh skin
And ah flex like a bloodclaa clown

Ah-ha, children ah smile an' ah skin dem teeth
More love flowing in the town
Whole community safe and sound
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 ah 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 ah win again (winning)
We up and we ready, di natty firm and heavy (rock so)
Diss Rastafari and everything ah dead

Chat dem ah chat and ah talk 'bout dem bad
And ah run up dem mouth an' gwan (and gwan)
Prostituting we daughters, we son dem get slaughtered
They breaking our families down (break us down)
Ah mus' the Boom and the rum
Weh di dutty government bring come
Mek-mek you forget seh you a queen
And start bleach out yuh skin
And ah flex like a fool Winsome

Or it could be many years of brainwashing
Or the stew peas with the pig tail (hey)
It even might be these pills that they 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 ah mek di yute brain damage
Coupled with with the crap they watching on the cable

Pastor n'ave no answer
Di yute dem inna di church sick and dying from cancer
Marijuana is the healing
And ah long time church people ah laugh after Rasta
Jamaica government invest millions a dollars
To destroy we landrace sativa
Bring in seeds from California
And then they legalize ganja