Hard Way

it black, yes it black, ha
wah me say, yea
16 and him love the 16
him neva read but him load magazine
him father tell him low the rich quick teen til him end up with the man them lock the housing scheme
say him waa fi plaze big and dress clean
take how much life and neva know death a creep in, and now the table n the chair turn pan him
its a juvenile me hear tun it pan him.
he learn the hard way, the hard way
no listen what his mama say
he learn the hard way
and that is the price he pays
the hard way, hard way no listen what his mama say, yes he learn the hard way, and that is the price he pay...
17 and she just come out a school,
she neva listen when her mama set the rule,
every morning when miss linga pan the job then him come in a ride her like a yellow taxi cab,
she catch a belly and her mam say you cannot stay, she contemplate him say fi dash the child away,
but when she check the doc she found out that she have been travel in the wrong with the big letter A
hard way, hard way, no listen what his mama say, yes she learn the hard way and that is the price you pay, the hard way, hard way no listen what the mama say yes she learn the hard way and that is the price she pays .
so many words have spoken, so many lives have lost, the way you see your future it depends upon your peers
so many mothers crying, there's no one to be the pay, paaaaayyyyyyy,.
the hard way, hard way no listen what his mama say, so he learn the hard way and that is the price you pay, the hard way, hard way...
yes him learn, the hard way.
(and that is the price he pays)
.nooooooo, I see babies having babies,
see mothers running away from the kids its like this world is gone crazy,
or is the prophecies beign fulfilled,
what kind of world are you living in my sisters,
selling your soul for a dime or dollar
brothers are fighting against their brothers, daddy's take advantage of their daughters, and single mothers try to keep their heads above the waters, water, water, water ...