Street Life

Ghetto youth
Stay alive
Na na na na
Ghetto youth
Na na na na

I'm just talking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
In desolate place I earn my dough
Thinking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
I got to keep my goals dem in sight

I man used to live up inna one room shack
Can't barely find food, not even clothes pon mi back
Roof start leak, now mi haffi set a pot
Water start drop, tip-a-tip-a-tip-a-top
Hold up mi head and say, mi nah look back
Heights of meditation make mi stay pon track
Know all the streets and the lanes
Hold all the heartaches and pains

Thinking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
In desolate place I earn my dough
Thinking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
I got to keep my goals dem in sight

At times I haffi swallow all my pride and pray to God to call a shot
Knowing that tomorrow I can't go back
So I take a piece of paper and I take up a pen
Write a big tune, it haffi hit it off ten
Selector, you da one, you haffi lift it up again
Work so mi do it, haffi solve the problem
If you see the look in my eyes
You know I'm going for the prize

Thinking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
In desolate place I earn my dough
Thinking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
I got to keep my goals dem in sight

Ghetto youth struggle, ghetto wise
Ghetto youth struggle, stay alive
Ghetto youth struggle, open up your eyes
And never you compromise
'Cause inna this yah struggle you haffi hold your weapons
Trample all the heathen, burn dem dirty devils
Yes, we got to march
Yes, we got to strive
Got to stay alive

Thinking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
In desolate place I earn my dough
Thinking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
I got to keep my goals dem in sight

I man used to live up inna one room shack
Can't barely find food, not even clothes pon mi back
Roof start leak, now mi haffi set a pot
Water start drop, tip-a-tip-a-tip-a-top
Hold up mi head and say, mi nah look back
Heights of meditation make mi stay pon track
Know all the streets and the lanes
Hold all the heartaches and pains

Thinking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
In desolate place I earn my dough
Thinking 'bout the street life
It is the only life I know
Real life
I got to keep my goals dem in sight

Thinking 'bout the real life