The System - Romain Virgo

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, yeah, yeah, yes

When you work and till the soil

Still can’t find food to boil

What do you tell hungry child, yes?

When the system no create no job

Weh yuh expect ghetto youths fi have

Them will kill people and rob, yes

When innocent life get burn

Di government nuh show concern

To who do the people turn, yeah

When the people hustle in the streets

Often run from police jeep

Tell me, now weh dem pickney ago eat

Ohhh

Times getting rough, times get slow

And we feel like letting go!

When we fee like letting go, letting go, yeah

Oh, you try your best

You still can’t find a way to fill your needs

Feels like letting go

Feels like letting go, yes!

When yuh give guns to momma’s child

And change up him whole profile

A now blood run like river nile, yeah

Tell me how the war ago, end when friends killing friends

The same thing again and again, yes

No joy caan hold pan di ends the whole community tense, yeah

Funeral expense, yes!

Does this make any sense?

It no make no sense

Mr. Man, where is you conscience?

Oh, oh

Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!

Oh, oh, oh

Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!

When the big man dem inna the scheme involve with a girl who a 13

Them shut her hopes and dreams, yes!

Know this girl is living in fear

She been through school for so much years

Choo so much sweat and tears, yeah

Now her parents seh she caan stay not even another day

If she dont throw it away, yeah

To who is she gonna turn?

How is she gonna earn?

Tell me now, who ago show concern

Oh, oh

Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!

Oh, oh, oh

Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah!

This is my concern, my concern, yeah!

This is my concern, this is my concern, yeah