Ghetto Youth lyrics

Artist	Tricky
Album(s)	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

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