POVERTY

My tears them turn to joy

I never get a youth a do it, I never drove in on

Nothin' like when mummy smile

I turn the page and change my life, ma never look to crime

So many sleepless nights

The moon to ting dip a mi brain

Still never complain, no me nuh a go fail

Poverty, no want fi talk with you, no want fi raise you

Ghetto youth rich and have things that we talkin' 'bout

No run a black house, a black for your mother's

Poverty, so glad you let me out, did a fi make it out

But still a happy city, fi you man choose anada road

And Jah Jah me nuh step it out

Pain, we feel

Inna di struggle ya fi fight fi survive, it real

All who doubt we, we turn dem in believers (we turn dem in believers)

All who a fight we, we nuh surrender (nuh surrender)

Dead stone when dem never want use

We make it out, surprise

And we move poverty, old mama wear

And the dream fi ghetto youth

All who doubt we, we turn dem in believers (we turn dem in believers)

All who a fight we, we nuh surrender (nuh surrender)

Hey, life have a way fi move

To death fi me, to my refuge

Can't fight the poverty, buckle and lose

Have fi mix your soul in, with prayer, yeah

Life have a way fi move

Your problems you can't pick and choose

Well, I wish every man could a rich

Inna dem meditation and in dem pocket

Poverty, no want fi talk with you, no want fi raise you

Ghetto youth rich and have things that we talkin' 'bout

No run a black house, a black for your mother's

Poverty, so glad you let we out, did a fi make it out

But still a happy, still a famous, choose another road

And Jah Jah me nuh step it out