Hungry Days - Junior Kelly

What a gwaan inna de ghetto?

Junior Kelly preach and echo

You know what?

Mi nuh like wah gwaan!

A just sufferation, sufferation, hey!

Hungry days, mi want a change of pace

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

'Cause ah hungry days, it a show inna mi face

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

One youth inna belly and two deh pon di ground (di ground)

She nuh know from whence her next meal a come

Hungry ah yawn;

well dat a di norm down inna di slum

Still nuh go lose mi cool

Mi a stay focused;

nuh go pick up nuh gun

Still nuh guh drown mi sorrows inna rum

Cause if riches fi come

One day it’s gonna come

But right here now a jus'

Hungry days, mi want a change of pace

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

'Cause ah hungry days, it a show inna mi face

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

Well I’n’I suffering from way back when

And white squal him a mi dearest friend

Hunger deh by mi side 24/7

So mi waan' ah one tune fi go pon di top ten

Ca' dat ah di only way di sufferation is gonna end

Waan' sum money fi borrow but di bank dem nuh guh lend

Have it ah circulate and dem ah issue to dem friend

Nuh cater fi di poor and needy sour about dat me den

Hungry days, mi want a change of pace

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

'Cause ah hungry days, it a show inna mi face

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

Unno remember de youths dem in Somalia ('lia)

Unno remember de youths dem inna Rwanda

Me wonder if wah good fi di goose no good fi di gander

Ca' goose no have a diamond gander have it ah squander

Ah build up dem demonical police and sodomonic empire

But ah greed ah di biggest factor

Ca' some say dem love we but dem just a actor

Dem know know seh when dem

Deceive ah youth ah dem ah future dem ah fracture

Inna hungry, inna hungry, inna hungry, ah hungry days!

Hungry days, mi want a change of pace

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

'Cause ah hungry days, it a show inna mi face

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

But what about di little baby feed (feed)

Weh no cater 'bout we basic needs

Each and every day mi say tax ah increase

And still di liccle ghetto youths cyaan juggle inna peace

Thro' pressure Maxine swallow her pride (pride)

Dollar her sell di love 'pon di side

Daytime bucka bold and brave she nuh go hide (hide)

For her belly full she’ll gi' any man a ride

Hungry days, mi want a change of pace

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

'Cause ah hungry days, it a show inna mi face

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

One youth inna belly and two deh pon di ground (di ground)

She nuh know from whence next meal a come

Hungry a yawn;

Hungry a yawn;

Yet still dat a di norm down inna di slum

Still nuh go lose mi cool

Mi ah stay focused

Nuh go pick up nuh gun

Still nuh guh drown mi sorrows inna rum

Cause if riches fi come

One day it’s gonna come

But right here now a jus'

Hungry, ah hungry, ah hungry, ah hungry days!

Hungry days, mi want a change of pace

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

'Cause ah hungry days, it a show inna mi face

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

Me suffering from way back when

And white squal him a mi dearest friend

Hunger deh by mi side 24/7

So mi waan' ah one tune fi go pon di top ten

Ca' dat ah di only way di sufferation is gonna end

Waan' sum money fi borrow but di bank dem nuh guh lend

Have it ah circulate and dem ah issue to dem friend

Nuh cater fi di poor and needy sour about dat me den

Hungry days, mi want a change of pace

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place

'Cause ah hungry days, it a show inna mi face

Owl ah seek mi bird outta desolate place