Ghetto Youth lyrics
Song information
Artist: Tricky Album: Pre-Millennium Tension
Lyrics
(Vocals by sky)
Me's a ghetto youth Me come from straight dung ina the ghetto Seen, rockfort, warica Seen, matches lane Jungle heights All I and I are one Me a tell ya All bull bay heights and dem heights dey Yeah Wick dem up Seen, I you a hear me Wicked ina de ghetto mi bredda Wicked to the mass And you done know the man have youth and youth A come up (translation- boys become men) And you see when And the father drop out Dem no know no father so dem come up tun gunman. (tun=turn) Me done know, because a so de ghetto (so=saw) Run a so the politician do it Dem bring in a bag a gun And barrage a ting and seen run pon youth and then When you check it out Dem send dem police friend to come for dem gun And dem say dem not running gun and dem tings deh And bere tings in a ghetto (translation-that's how Things are in the ghetto) Seen, man no stop kill man Seen, man no stop rob man A no dem tings deh we want ina jamaica (trans.- we Don't want those things in the ghetto) We want love, unity, seen, strength and energy Yeah, we want a whole heap of things to go on for the Ghetto youth all next year You done know me as one a dem uprighting ghetto Youth Seen, so we a start from way down dey so. (trans.- "We start at the bottom of the barrel") We no just a come from no way and a come up ya so (Trans- we don't just come from nowhere, we're right here) A way dung de so man a come from Say man a come way from the rock, when me say de rock Me mean the rock Seen Them a [??] and them come to the [??] industrial [??] caribbean country [??] We no got no royalty, know what me say? Yeah, get up in a place them call [?] Them sitting in a store Gas with plane, gas to this, gas to that, gas to everything Ever have a little fire get wet? Wow, them has not said a word I a don't know my little friend over there sir Sure when all left [??] See tricky? [??] old things I a do know ya up front man Yes me brother, sky the yes sir [??] I tell ya, the youth Ya'll god bless [??], trust me I wanna show ya'll a thing about the ghetto See the ghetto is a [case a pop, lollipop, all of them pop there] Yeah, I and I a juggle them from nine from down yes sir See ya know just call me sister [?] See ya don't know man no ghetto youth, see? Straight boy original, see? Yeah, and noboby can fool and nobody can come use we Yeah, that's the way we run things We just steal a thing, we sell suck suck on them thing Them thing come and them thing star and [??] enquire [??] for earn our own paper Yeah, [??] get we boy to come tell about 6 to 6 and 6 to 12 And after this and after that you drink champagne and cut off you foot In a place something on that ya see [??] When them work them weary That's how the ghetto youth live That's why them ever try to elevate us, I and I ya see? Ya know I and I elevate out of the slum [??] Se we me people we make use of that ya see? Our mother and our father never have nothing, from way down there sir Trust me me brother See that's how I and I come up Go to school without lunch money and them sitting there That's why I no love nobody else One good thing I love about the little youth they're a [??] and a friend me brother I tell ya, [??] or anything ya want I and I know I live with it I live with it, ya see? Reality a reality see? We no promote none of them boy over there sir See them stay over one side and go and eat them [?] and drink them what they wanna drink them Where ya going [??] There is one thing and kick back and go and meditate and see? Yeah, live with people me people live with we Ya know what me say? Yeah, 'cause when I tell ya me brother, see there be chain of [??] them a go under see? Babylon release the train but them [?] is them brain see? Trust me That's why I and I goes with them see? God with it them build big pretty church and no build no school
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
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