Can't Breathe

Uh! Come on!

Dem system is a strain and a mess

Mi feeling like a pain inna mi chest

The people need a rest

Oh, feel like mi cyaa breathe

Inna dis ya suffocation

The people living inna sufferation

Mi cyaa breathe

Mi cyaa breathe

When di youths cyaa write and cyaa read

Many cyaa spell but dat den have we under

You cyaa tell di man different from woman ya

Di people dem a swell, di food a go we cancer

Look how long we a tell dem bout di benefits of ganja

Dem nuh like di smell, so we nuh get no sponsor

Rum and cigarette company dem runnin rampant

No money nah flow, di ghetto get so stagnant

You half strong like Jr Gong Flag Man

Mi say, mi cyaa breathe

Inna dis ya suffocation

The people livin inna sufferation

Mi cyan breathe

Mi feel claustrophobic

In a system where no economic growth is

Mi say, mi cyaa breathe

Inna dis ya suffocation

The people living inna sufferation

Mi cyaa breathe

Mi cyaa breathe

When di youths cyaa write and cyaa read

Inna di depths of this mental pollution

Dem wah we tek a dive, livin in destitution

But still we a survive in spite of presecution

We humble is a child, because this revolution is of a different kind

We of a different mind, a pre some different sign, living in a different time

I can feel the frequencies changing around me (Feel it)

Is like the anxiety a drown me

Mi say, mi cyaa breathe

Inna dis ya suffocation

The people livin inna sufferation

Mi cyan breathe

Mi feel claustrophobic

Up in a system where no economic growth is

Mi say, mi cyaa breathe

Inna dis ya suffocation

The people living inna sufferation

Mi cyaa breathe

Mi cyaa breathe

When di youths cyaa write and cyaa read

A long time di rasta man a warn dem

Fi low di bloody mean an go tek it to the farm dem

Now a just disease dem a put inna corn

An di dam soya bean, tumor start form

An di youth dem a di future yet the police a remand them

Tell Queen Elizabeth give we what we demand

A repatriation chant, to the motherland, yes, we gone dem

We nuh way resort fi go harm dem

Caw we cyaa breathe

Inna dis ya suffocation

The people livin inna sufferation

Mi cyan breathe

Me feel claustrophobic

Up in a system where no economic growth is

Mi say, mi cyaa breathe

Inna dis ya suffocation

The people living inna sufferation

Mi cyaa breathe

Mi cyaa breathe

When di youths cyaa write and cyaa read

Woah, no-no-no

Ski-bi-li-ban, rastaman is chanting now

Ayo, Deh Nyabinghi ah fi sound

Babylon is burning down, yeah, yeah

Our King Selassie, I, yeah, wear deh crown

Woah, no-no-no

Feel like mi cyaa breathe

Inna dis ya suffocation

The people livin inna sufferation

Mi cyan breathe

Mi feel claustrophobic

Up in a system where no economic growth is

Mi say, mi cyaa breathe

Inna dis ya suffocation

The people living inna sufferation

Mi cyaa breathe

Mi cyaa breathe

When di youths cyaa write and cyaa read