Ghetto Paradise

[00:11.99] You living the life in the ghetto paradise
[00:17.02] You living that life in the ghetto paradise
[00:22.84] Mi nuh know how mi survive the hardship weh in ya
[00:25.72] Life never sweet like ah chocolate vanilla
[00:28.39] Train line mi born mi nuh born inna villa
[00:30.92] Likkle monkey watch how you ah talk to Gorilla
[00:33.72] Cah, the government buy arms give the killer
[00:36.41] Two party ah flex like a party dem inna
[00:39.22] Accepting presents from foreign government
[00:41.77] Weh still ah fool dem and a school dem and a khaki dem in
[00:44.62] Good god of Moses and Rodney the Killer
[00:47.39] Poor people fed up and we can't sim simmer
[00:50.13] Can hardly survive as a blasted singer
[00:52.70] Much less a baller who is a rahtid winger
[00:55.65] Have a right foot like a David Villa
[00:58.34] Him mother still ah sell inna market
[01:00.73] Jamrock is a precious stone still it's far from a diamond, take it from I man
[01:06.48] Even though Jamaica nice
[01:08.87] You gotta live to save your life
[01:11.19] After the sunset comes the darkness of the night
[01:17.04] Better open up your eyes
[01:19.60] You've gotta read between the lines
[01:22.39] Living in the ghetto paradise
[01:28.12] Jamaica spiritually irie
[01:29.75] Pretty and it nice
[01:31.09] Still a ghetto paradise and mi nah apologise
[01:33.77] It Slippery and it slidey
[01:35.17] Di government ah lie
[01:36.31] Dem trick we and dem buy we
[01:37.70] Di chicken and di fries
[01:39.18] Spend a little of your time
[01:40.48] You giggle and you smile
[01:41.83] But even if you try
[01:43.05] You couldn't live some ah we life
[01:44.68] Riverton ah bun, di likkle pickney dem a cry
[01:47.14] Di chubby bottle dem ah pile up on the river side
[01:50.10] And den you talk how Jamaica sweet
[01:52.20] Wah sweet you will rotten your teeth
[01:55.11] And in the streets it nuh nice and easy
[01:57.95] Shot a beat, ghetto youths can't sleep
[02:00.50] And then you talk how Jamaica nice
[02:03.25] You say you living in a paradise
[02:05.99] Poverty whistle like a Christmas breeze, yeah
[02:09.06] You better take my foolish advice
[02:11.69] Even though Jamaica nice
[02:14.32] You gotta live to save your life
[02:17.00] After the sunset comes the darkness of the night
[02:22.56] You better open up your eyes
[02:25.10] And read between the lines
[02:27.84] When you're living in the ghetto paradise
[02:33.85] Survival
[02:35.96] Only the fittest
[02:38.37] Shall make it out of this jungle alive
[02:44.24] Survival
[02:46.46] Jah is my witness
[02:49.28] The darkest hours of the night is just before daylight
[02:55.35] Even though Jamaica nice
[02:57.91] You gotta live to save your life
[03:00.47] After the sunset comes the darkness of the night
[03:06.12] You better open up your eyes
[03:08.81] Gotta read between the lines
[03:11.53] When you're living in the ghetto paradise
[03:16.30] Living in the ghetto, ghetto paradise