Lyrics
When I’m down Jah lift mi up
When I get thirsty fill my cup
Getto youth nah give up no way
Seh we nah give up no!
When I’m down Jah lift mi up
When I get thirsty fill my cup yea
Seh mi nah give up no way
Seh mi nah give up
Mi see a dancehall a skyrize
Dem try and hold mi down
Dem friend passed and a gone and a… down
When mi ah go pray di dom?
Because deem shed it gaza… come
… pon di lady’s son… When mi a run di park don’t wanna touch a gun
Blood a run, another nine nine
Touch it but… ask jah
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, tell me why-hy
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, tell me
Why-hy!
From week she a work while friday dinner. Why di bus boy hire and tip her?!
To fight and she say she wanna make the money just to buy some food fi di
family!
Ah! Hear me out a now, you haffi hear dis… taking taxi was the latest
Acting so… and unite the ones that… them and warn di boy…
When a dancehall haffi hear dis aahhhhh jah
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, tell me why-hy
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why!
(why why why why)!
Mi nah want fi see another youth, inna mi gidiyan, hearing another Vybz,
singing another song, hoping one day, it won’t be long, but Jah will stop all
the separation. Mi see another Mom, with shattered dream cah nothing can bring
back a man that dead yaaah Them take me any when dem kill children and I gonna
still go cryyyy that’s why
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, tell me why-hy
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why!
(why why why why)!
When I’m down Jah lift mi up, when I get thirsty fill my cup, getto youth nah
give up no way, seh we nah give up no, When I’m down Jah lift mi up,
when I get thirsty fill my cup yea seh mi nah give up no way, seh mi nah give
up
Oh why oh why, oh why oh why oh why, oh why oh why oh why tell me why-hy.
Oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh (why why why why)…