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Hungry Days by Junior Kelly album cover

Hungry Days

by Junior Kelly

Lyrics
What a gwaan inna di ghetto (ghetto)
Junior Kelly preach and echo
You know wah
Mi nuh like wah gwaan
A just sufferation, sufferation
Hey!

Hungry days
Mi want a change a pace
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place
'Cause a hungry days
It a show inna mi face
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place

One youth inna belly and two deh pon di ground, di ground
She nuh know from whence her next meal a come
Hungry a yawn
Well, that a di norm down inna di slum
Still nah go lose mi cool, mi a stay focus
Nah go pick up no gun
Still nah go drown mi sorrows inna rum
'Cause if riches fi come, one day it's gonna come
But right yah now a just

Hungry days
Mi want a change a pace
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place
'Cause a hungry days
It a show inna mi face
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place

Well I and I suffering from way back when
And white squal him a mi dearest friend
Hunger deh by mi side 24/7
So mi want a one tune fi go pon di top 10
'Cause that a di only way di sufferation's gonna end
Want some money fi borrow, but di bank dem nah go lend
Have it a circulate and dem a issue to dem friend
No cater fi di poor and needy, so about that mi bend

'Cause a hungry days
Mi want a change a pace
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place
'Cause a hungry days
It a show inna mi face
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place

Unuh remember di youth dem in Somalia? (ia, ia)
Unuh remember di youth dem in Rwanda?
Mi wonder if what good fi di goose no good fi di gander

'Cause goose no have a dime and gander have it a squander
A build up dem demonical police and sodomonic empire
But a greed a di biggest factor
'Cause some seh dem love we, but dem just a actor
Dem nuh know seh when dem diss we youth
A dem future dem a fracture
Inna hungry

Inna hungry

Inna hungry, a hungry days

Inna hungry days
Mi want a change a pace
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place
'Cause a hungry days
It a show inna mi face
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place

But what about di likkle baby feed? (feed)
Unuh cater 'bout we basic needs
Each and every day, mi seh, tax a increase
And still di likkle ghetto youths cyaan juggle inna peace
True pressure max him swallow her pride (pride)
Dawn a sell di love pon di side
Di time book a bold and brave, she nah go hide (hide)
For a belly full she will gi' any man a ride

'Cause a hungry days
Mi want a change a pace
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place
'Cause a hungry days
It a show inna I and I face
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place

One youth inna belly and two deh pon di ground, di ground
She nuh know from whence her next meal a come
Hungry a yawn, hungry a yawn
Yet still, that a di norm down inna di slum
Still nah go lose mi cool, mi a stay focus
Nah go pick up no gun
Still nah go drown mi sorrows inna rum
'Cause if riches fi come, one day it's gonna come
But right yah now a just

Hungry days
Mi want a change a pace
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place
'Cause a hungry days
It a show inna mi face
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place

Mi suffering from way back when
And white squal him a mi dearest friend
Hunger deh by mi side 24/7
So mi want a one tune fi go pon di top 10
'Cause that a di only way di sufferation's gonna end
Want some money fi borrow, but di bank dem nah go lend
Have it a circulate and dem a issue to dem friend
No cater fi di poor and needy, so about that mi bend

'Cause a hungry days
Mi want a change a pace
All a seek mi bread outta desolate place
'Cause a hungry days
It a show inna mi face