[Hook: Busy Signal] The darkside of kingston town, kingston town No smile pon face of every man a wear frown Fi a next man survive one haffi get throw down Hyena nyam yuh food ? The darkside of kingston town, kingston town Every man a fight fi wear di kings crown And when di moon full, all you hear dogs a howl A while while wish you were down
[Verse 1: Jr. Gong] True man want to have it all Dem savage like a animal Damage you fi collateral You bleed like you no more seh shots I neva tek sabbatical Rise up all the 40 cal Dem they say a capital Punishment inna di capital Read di news articles Nuffa a dem a artical Molecules and particles Mi bwoy get high on logical And tho the land is tropical The budget microscopical Hold dem inna di street nah start it up in philosophical
Cause dem a war over turf like nothing else matters Flick it dem a old life has much more to offer No benefits when you kill when another Still walk away with nada A one little place woulda so many bother No one to maintain the law or the order Wahapn when a fatherless dem got on farther
[Verse 2: Busy signal] Bigger heads give we pill without pain Road without drain Work without payin Shotta weh can't tame Nuff a dem a work off a badman name Extortion pressurin the shops 'pon the lane
Can't play domino 'pon the corner Drive-by set a guy like piranha Can't, walk, up the road fi check auntie Lana Now gun shot a beat pon di border Dem youths ya no hold no order And man a prove pon dem one another That a galang in a
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[Verse 3: Busy Signal] Cause nuffa dem youth in nowadays will be forever running from the law Kingston a no play thing, no keyboard nah guitar Man will box the found out of your mouth before you could chaw Dem turn around and bust a shot in a your jaw And if you hear red striped No look fi little truck All di ratty and di squaddy a patrol a drive up Man with weed a run anna di hide Wanted man a mask up So mad dash ova wall a scale fence and climb up up in the