You Got To Be Wise

[Intro]
Woah-oy, woah-oy-oy-oy
Woah-oy, woah-ye

[Chorus]
You've got to be wise to live in this time
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens (Lord)
And my sistrens
You've got to be wise to live in this time
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens
And my sistrens

[Verse 1]
Di heathens are more than di locks off I head
Don't want to see I an' I achieve no bread
They don't want to give us opportunity
Only want to treat us with brutality
Don't want to share equality, yeah
Only want to see Jah children in poverty

[Post-Verse]
That's what them want them to see
That's what them want them to see
To see Jah children in poverty

[Chorus]
You've got to be wise to live in this time
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens (Lord)
And my sistrens
You've got to be wise to live in this time
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens
And my sistrens (Got to be wise, got to be wise)

[Verse 2]
Di heathens are more than di locks off I head
Don't want to see I an' I achieve no bread
They don't want to give us opportunity
Only want to treat us with brutality
Don't want to share equality, yeah
Only want to see Jah children in poverty

[Post-Verse]
That's what them want them to see
That's what them want them to see
That's what them want them to see
That's what them want them to see
To see Jah children in poverty

[Chorus]
You've got to be wise to live in this time
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens (Lord)
And my sistrens
You've got to be wise to live in this time
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens
And my sistrens

[Outro]
Got to be wise, got to be wise
You've go to be wise to live in this time, to even survive
Got to be wise, you've go to be wise
Got to be wise to live in this time (Lord)
To even survive, to live in this time, to even survive