[Intro]
Gi mi a future
Di ghetto wah love and honour
Likkle gyal weh a thirteen tun baby madda
Every juvenile seh him badda
Dem feel life fi di hot grabba
Youths weh a seventeen
No hope, no dream
Big Yard

[Chorus]
The life we live
It hard and poor
That's why dem fight ghetto youth more and more
But memba...
We go on and on and on
We go on and on and on
Memba...
We go on and on and on
We go on and on and on

[Verse 1]
Memba when mi granny used to tell mi seh
God will help you if you help yuhself
Mi believe but mi black so mi tell mi self
It nah go come easy
Not even wata wid a slice of bread
Many hungry night mi haffi gone mi bed
But mi read a part inna di bible seh
Ghetto youth joy come it in di morning
[Chorus:]
The life we live
It hard and poor
That's why dem fight ghetto youth
More and more
Empire... we go on and on and on
We go on and on and on
Gaza... we go on and on and on
We go on and on and on

[Verse 2:]
Many homeless people sidewalk fi bed
Juvenile a stop light a walk a bed
So mi bun di green and mi bun di red
No JLP, no PLP
Mi love mi life a mi nuh waan fi dead
So mi nah buss no coppa nor buss no led
Cah mi read a part inna di bible seh
Ghetto youth joy come it in di morning

[Chorus:]
The life we live
It hard and poor
That's why dem fight ghetto youth
More and more
Empire... we go on and on and on
We go on and on and on
Gaza... we go on and on and on
We go on and on and on
[Verse 3:]
Ghetto youth
Wise up yourself
To the system
Don't be no victim
Society nuh like we
Dem waan tek weh we powa
From the Gaza
Spit cornaa
Dem nuh wah see Not Nice and Mr. Palmer
Have moneyyy (moneyy)
Hey naaah naah

[Chorus:]
The life we live
It hard and poor
That's why dem fight ghetto youth
More and more
Empire... we go on and on and on
We go on and on and on
Gaza... we go on and on and on
We go on and on and on

[Bridge:]
Gih mi a futuraaa
Di ghetto wah love anotha
Likkle gal weh a thirtheen
Tun baby madda
Every juvenile seh him badda
Dem feel life fi di hot grabba
Youths weh a seventeen
No hope, no dream
Big Yard
[Chorus:]
The life we live
It hard and poor
That's why dem fight ghetto youth
More and more
But memba...
We go on and on and on
We go on and on and on
Gaza... we go on and on and on
We go on and on and on