System yah intend
fi make you bawl
and make you beg
Now there's a war
and blood a shed
So duck and crawl
under yuh bed
'cause man nuh fraid
fi buss dem gun
T'il barrel bun
until it done
That's how we
living day to day
I just don't see
no other way
and though the evil
pon display
Catch a stray
when AK spray
Three head fly
weh pon one scene
Two more gone
over Papine
Why we people
suffer so
What they see
is what they know
No need to plea
no mercy show
and want to flee
nowhere to go
It depends pon
what you choose
fi make it out or
make it pon the news
The system yah rough
Everybody wicked
and tough
Every man want
lock a one shoes
Good or bad
no man no want lose
The system yah rough
Everybody wicked
and tough
yeah
System yah design
fi make the people
lose them mind
Just to live
man turn to crime
Take your tings
and make them mine
38 inna mi waist
Point that up straight
inna yuh face
Inna shootout
with police
kill two store
owner last week
Circumstances
gave no choice
So don't play
'round with your life
Hard of hearing
nah talk twice
Silencer don't
make no noise
Any day could
be my last
and the worst
shall come to pass
but until then
man will just be
the baddest man
that dem can be
It depends pon
what you choose
fi make it out or
make it pon the news
The system yah rough
Everybody wicked
and tough
Every man want
lock a one shoes
Good or bad
no man no want lose
The system yah rough
Everybody wicked
and tough
yeah
It start get normal
it start get secular
Dem no partial
you coulda badder
than America
Coulda upclass
middle class
or a regular
You will get it quicker
than a call pon
yuh cellular
Group pon Whatsapp
full a bare contract
First man see
it well you know
a him a grab that
Happiest man will
have a gun inna
him knapsack
and you nah know
'til you diss him
and him grab that
Fools said that
them can't clip
them wing
Acting like dem
know everything
Sleepless nights
protecting yuh kin
A quick one reach
you right as him blink
Element of surprise
come under disguise
Approach from behind
dem friend take
dem life
So set up before you
meet your demise
Da system yah set fi
youths lose dem life
It depends pon
what you choose
fi make it out or
make it pon the news
The system yah rough
Everybody wicked
and tough
Every man want
lock a one shoes
Good or bad no man
no want lose
The system yah rough
Everybody wicked
and tough
yeah