The System
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, yeah, yeah, yes
When you work and till the soil
Still can't find food to boil
What do you tell hungry child, yes?
When the system no create no job,
weh yuh expect ghetto youths fi have
Them will kill people and rob, yes
when innocent life get burn
Di government nuh show concern,
to who do the people turn, yeah
When the people hustle in the streets
Often run from police jeep
Tell me, now weh dem pickney ago eat
ohhh,
Times getting rough, times get slow
and we feel like letting go!
When we fee like letting go, letting go, yeah
Oh, you try your best,
you still can't find a way to fill your needs
Feels like letting go
Feels like letting go, yes!
When yuh give guns to momma's child
and change up him whole profile
a now blood run like river nile, yeah
Tell me how the war ago, end when friends killing friends
The same thing again and again, yes
no joy caan hold pan di ends the whole community tense, yeah
funeral expense, yes!
Does this make any sense?
It no make no sense
Mr. Man, where is you conscience?
Oh, oh,
Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh
Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!
When the big man dem inna the scheme involve with a girl who a 13
them shut her hopes and dreams, yes!
Know this girl is living in fear,
She been through school for so much years.
choo so much sweat and tears, yeah
now her parents seh she caan stay not even another day
if she dont throw it away, yeah
To who is she gonna turn?
how is she gonna earn?
Tell me now, who ago show concern
Oh, oh,
Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh
Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!
This is my concern, my concern, yeah!
This is my concern, this is my concern, yeah
Oh, yeah, yeah, yes
When you work and till the soil
Still can't find food to boil
What do you tell hungry child, yes?
When the system no create no job,
weh yuh expect ghetto youths fi have
Them will kill people and rob, yes
when innocent life get burn
Di government nuh show concern,
to who do the people turn, yeah
When the people hustle in the streets
Often run from police jeep
Tell me, now weh dem pickney ago eat
ohhh,
Times getting rough, times get slow
and we feel like letting go!
When we fee like letting go, letting go, yeah
Oh, you try your best,
you still can't find a way to fill your needs
Feels like letting go
Feels like letting go, yes!
When yuh give guns to momma's child
and change up him whole profile
a now blood run like river nile, yeah
Tell me how the war ago, end when friends killing friends
The same thing again and again, yes
no joy caan hold pan di ends the whole community tense, yeah
funeral expense, yes!
Does this make any sense?
It no make no sense
Mr. Man, where is you conscience?
Oh, oh,
Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh
Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!
When the big man dem inna the scheme involve with a girl who a 13
them shut her hopes and dreams, yes!
Know this girl is living in fear,
She been through school for so much years.
choo so much sweat and tears, yeah
now her parents seh she caan stay not even another day
if she dont throw it away, yeah
To who is she gonna turn?
how is she gonna earn?
Tell me now, who ago show concern
Oh, oh,
Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh
Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!
This is my concern, my concern, yeah!
This is my concern, this is my concern, yeah
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Writer(s): Romain Virgo, Telvin Brown
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