Gangster Prayer

Now lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

And if I should die before I wake

I pray the Lord my soul to take, Jah

Father God you a hear me

Me know we nuh talk in a while but me feel like you still deh near me

Me need your help now more than ever

So me decide fi sing to you in a prayer, Jah Jah

Me a fight a battle deep within

Poverty a beat me bad ,but me nuh want give in to me evil twin

Me feel like the victim in a one system

Wha trap you and the only way out is if you a baller, Dj or a King pin

The pastor help me get a one job wha day

Me work the month, me get the pay, by weekend done the whole of it gone away

Now me shotta friend them wha deh a Mobay

A say them have a works fi mash and when me done them want me lock the K

Me nuh want mix up in a the badness

But end of month when time me get mi pay, me haffi ask a wha this? madness

Reality check, it seems like there's only one way for me

Man a go touch the road tonight, somebody pray for me

Now lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

And if I should die before I wake

I pray the Lord my soul to take, pray with me

Jah Jah protect me in these streets

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

And if I should die along the way

I pray the Lord my soul to take, gangster prayer

Tired of living hand to mouth

Tired of every end of month, when me look online all me see is a empty bank account

Tired fi have mi hand long out

And the only time me see a food, or a shoes or a shirt a when the Don come out

Tired fi know how hungry feel

Tired fi hear rich people say the struggle is real' when them really nuh know the struggle fi real

Tired of water crackers and butter mi only meal

So when me want cornmeal and me can't buy it, that a go make me want steal

From the days of elementary

Man have friend weh have uncle and aunty deh in a the penitentiary

Is either deh so or the cemetery (weh them bury)

And me nuh want end up a none of them place deh, somebody pray for me

Now lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

And if I should die before I wake

I pray the Lord my soul to take, pray with me

Jah Jah protect me in these streets

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

And if I should die along the way

I pray the Lord my soul to take, gangster prayer

Yo, a tonight them a come link me

And all me hear is Mama words nuh follow bad company mi pickney'

Somebody pray for me

And Jah if me nuh make it out, save a spot a the Pearly gate for me

Jah protect me in these streets

Die fore I wake, soul to take

Jah protect me in these streets

Die fore I wake, soul to take

Somebody pray for me, pray for me

Somebody pray for me, pray for me