The System

C G Am F 2x C G When you work and till the soil Am Still can't find food to boil F What do you tell hungry child, yes? C G When the system no create no job Am Weh yuh expect ghetto youths fi have F Them will k**l people and rob, yes C G When innocent life get burn Am Di government nuh show concern F To who do the people turn, yeah C G When the people hustle in the streets Am Often run from police jeep F Tell me now: weh dem pickney ago eat C G Oh-oh-oh-oho-oh Am F Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah! C G Oh-oh-oh-oho-oh Am F Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah! C G When yuh give guns to momma's child Am And change up him whole profile F A now blood run like river nile, yeah C G Am Tell me how the war ago end, when friends killing friends F The same thing again and again, yes C G Am No joy caan hold pan di ends the whole community tense, yeah F Funeral expense, yes! C G Does this make any sense? Am It no make no sense F Mr. Man, where is you conscience? C G Oh-oh-oh-oho-oh Am F Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah! C G Oh-oh-oh-oho-oh Am F Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah! C G Am When the big man dem inna the scheme involve with a girl who a 13 F Them shut her hopes and dreams, yes! C G Know this girl is living in fear Am She been through school for so much years F Choo so much sweat and tears, yeah C G Am Now her parents seh she caan stay not even another day F If she don't throw it away, yeah C G To who is she gonna turn? Am How is she gonna earn? F Tell me now: who ago show concern C G Oh-oh-oh-oho-oh Am F Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah! C G Oh-oh-oh-oho-oh Am F Feel like letting go, letting go, yeah! C G Am F This is my concern, this is my concern, yeah! C G Am F C G Am F This is my concern, a dis a my concern, yeah C G Am F C G Am F C