Ghetto Paradise

You living the life in the ghetto paradise

You living that life in the ghetto paradise

Mi nuh know how mi survive the hardship weh in ya

Life never sweet like ah chocolate vanilla

Train line mi born mi nuh born inna villa

Lickle monkey watch how you ah talk to Gorilla

Cah, the government buy arms give the killer

Two party ah flex like a party dem inna

Accepting presents from foreign government

Weh still ah fool dem and a school dem and a khaki dem in

Good god of Moses and Rodney the Killer

Poor people fed up and we can't sim simmer

Can hardly survive as a blasted singer

Much less a baller who is a rahtid winger

Have a right foot like a David Villa

Him mother still ah sell inna market

Jamrock is a precious stone still it's far from a diamond

Take it from I man

Even though Jamaica nice

You gotta live to save your life

After the sunset comes the darkness of the night

Better open up your eyes

You've gotta read between the lines

Living in the ghetto paradise

Jamaica spiritually irie

Pretty and it nice

Still a ghetto paradise and mi nah apologise

It Slippery and it slidey

Di government ah lie

Dem trick we and dem buy we

Di chicken and di fries

Spend a lickle of your time

You giggle and you smile

But even if you try

You couldn't live some ah we life

Riverton ah bun, di lickle pickney dem a cry

Di chubby bottle dem ah pile up on the river side

And den you talk how Jamaica sweet

Wah sweet you will rotten your teeth

And in the streets it nuh nice and easy

Shot a beat, ghetto youths can't sleep

And then they talk how Jamaica nice

You say you living in a paradise

Poverty whistle like a Christmas breeze, yeah

You better take my foolish advice

Even though Jamaica nice

You gotta live to save your life

After the sunset comes the darkness of the night

You better open up your eyes

And read between the lines

When you're living in the ghetto paradise

Survival

Only the fittest

Shall make it out of this jungle alive

Survival

Jah is my witness

The darkest hours of the night is just before daylight

And even though Jamaica nice

You gotta live to save your life

After the sunset comes the darkness of the night

You better open up your eyes

Gotta read between the lines

When you're living in the ghetto paradise

Living in the ghetto, ghetto paradise

Living in the ghetto, ghetto paradise

Living in the ghetto, ghetto paradise

Living in the ghetto, ghetto paradise

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