Screaming For The Poor - Lutan Fyah

Yes JAH give thanks

And i have seen many homeless walk the streets

Yes with out shelter nuh clothes upon their back no food to eat

Then hear mi out

Oh yes

I have heard screaming from the poor oh yes

Someone please call the police

I have heard screaming from the poor

1−1-9 alert then it’s a state of emergency

Awright den coo-yah now

Den check di condition di yutes dem living in

Ransackle board house, zinc fence and pit latrine

Hey poverty stress dem out some have dem big gun slinging

Uptown and living large dem neva cease from di killing

Den momma ban har belly and bawl

Upon di death toll shi hear har one son name guh call

Try some hustling guh put up a one stall

Here comes metro police awright oh yes

I have heard screaming from the poor oh yes

Someone please call the police

I have heard screaming from the poor

1−1-9 alert we living in a state of emergency

Hear mi out

Den ghetto yutes be careful of dem pencil neck trickster

Hey fi a spit inna di bucket dem wi sell yuh fi di length a di dollar

Mouth full a lies dem a failure

RASTA burn out dem free paper

Den all dem good fa is to enslave the poor for cheap wages

Hey man son toiling for length of dayses

Education is so good but so expensive

Oh mi cyaant even find di monthly bills

I have heard screaming from the poor oh yes

Someone please call the police

I have heard screaming from the poor

1−1-9 alert living in a state of emergency

Den tell mi a who boost di yutes and tun dem inna ruff neck

Gi dem big gun fi buss and mek dem a beat dem chest

Big house pretty cyar and nuff fanciness

Yuh gi dem drugs fi sell and den gi feds dem address

I see dat yuh nuh care about the homeless

Ghetto living is a day to day stress

Nuff yutes walk di streets confuse and perplex

They never know what coming up next

Yes yes

I have heard screaming from the poor oh yes

Someone please call the police

I have heard screaming from the poor

1−1-9 alert living in a state of emergency