Oh oh ohhhh whooo-whooo, Oh oh ohhhh
Tuff man tuff and grew up inna di ghetto, ya know
Hungry days and hungry nights and dem nah know
Wah dem fi know, wid dem belly full
Make Jah be ya present
Watch poverty life be ya past
Vanity vanish, Jah Jah love everlasting
The system a flaw empowered by law
Nah spend ya loss inna di half reign
Burn hate and grudge, practice love,
Ah said it often inna di offspring
This a fi di youths them about
Just listen to the voice from my mouth
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And use life like a rope and hold on
So man haffi face di faith
Mi haffi survive
And use life like a rope in da storm
So man haffi make it out (Jah made me call)
When Jah made me call
Life inna di ghetto we fighting to get out of it
But you haffi be spiritually fit
It looks like di system designed fi you fall down
We have to make it back up somehow
Watch ya head back as ya climb up on di ladder yeh know
Di same man a top could fi kill ya
You stay humble and a focused on ya journey
We glad and you are gon make it
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Youths use life like a rope and hold on
So man haffi face di faith
We haffi survive
And use life like a rope in da storm
So man have to make it out (Jah made me call)
Pon Jah made me call
Faith is small that fi must exceed shall move my days
So we haffi make it out
We haffi survive
Di so called strongest and fittest and di ruff shall fall at this time
If you no have faith in Jah Rastafari, you can't survive
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Just use life like a rope and hold on
Some man haffi face the fight
We haffi survive
And use life like a rope in da storm
So man haffi make it out (Jah made me call)
We haffi survive, we haffi survive
Truth!
We haffi survive, we haffi survive
Mi haffi survive