Give me the food and let me grow Give me the knowledge let me know I'm like the early early sunshine Ready to enlight my people with something bright Give me the shoes and let me go Fi buy a ticket fi take the road Nah let me poor child walking on the moon side with nothing Oh did you hear my Oh Why when mi looking so high behind the curtain Everything you love ago build up my pride Mi don't wanna miss any piece of your line So nah leave me lone Please nah keep me down And so long the pickney nah row Him go dance in the wind at the bow So keep him dancing Keep your children learning I see so many youths watch dem deh pon the road With no place fi run they got no place fi go Maddest dreams dem a gone And we a know we gonna bring back so faith in the man of tomorrow And Fatbabs said yes InI spread out the way fi progress Fi the little youth we affi give them the best We affi give them the best place Cause we are the future my brothers, my sisters We are the future