A-wise ghetto yute, start wise up now
(Warning, warning, warning, warning, warning) hey
Rise ghetto yute start rise up now, hear me
Burn sufferation and burn poverty
Mek dem know a-evolution time
A-Babylon invent crime
We need more love flowing in the streets
Children a-smile an' a-skin dem teeth (hey)
More love flowing in the town
Whole community Safe 'N' 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 a-mercy
All of a sudden everybody a gun man
State of emergency and a-bag a-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 a-one thing nuh mount a-money cyan buy
Chat dem a-chat, a-talk 'bout dem a-bad man
A-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)
A-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 a-flex like a bloodclaa clown
Ah-ha, children a-smile an' a-skin dem teeth
More love flowing in the town
Whole community Safe 'N' Sound
More 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 a-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 a-win again (winning)
We up and we ready, di Natty firm and heavy (rock so)
Diss Rastafari and everything a-dead
Chat dem a-chat and a-talk 'bout dem bad
And a-run up dem mouth an' gwan (and gwan)
Prostituting we daughters, we son dem get slaughtered
They breaking our families down (break us down)
A-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 a-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 a-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 a-long time church people a-laugh after Rasta
Jamaica government invest millions a dollars
To destroy we landrace sativa
Bring in seeds from California
And then they legalize ganja