[Wyclef] Hold on now, don't die now, be strong now He said, I was born a crack baby Found in a plastic bag in the alley Raised in a foster home With no mother to love and I never knew my papi Back in the days of Bobby McFerrin Used to sing don't worry, be happy Lord how can I be happy When I don't even know my own family tree Lord
[Wyclef] We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die The only thing I fear is the afterlife Cuz I don't know what's there on the other side But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try
[Wyclef] Gang poppin' things, doing drive-bys in anger Kids going to school putting fears in their teacher You need to let them know that it ain't all good Cuz the gang was created to protect the neighborhood, now All you red now, all you blue now All you yellow now, follow me now To that place of righteousness Where the only thing that matters is your consciousness, he said
[Wyclef] We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die The only thing I fear is the after life Cus I don't know what's there on the other side But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try
[Wyclef] In my father's kingdom there are many mansions All the rooms are free, there is no tax collection I can see Biggie, Tupac, Moses and Abraham, Jay's on the one and two's, jamming with the sun of man
[Scarface] I've been kicked, I've been stabbed I've been shot, I've been ? by a Person that I thought I trusted, where I live It's a war at the cribs, walk with a strap Myself cos I don't want nobody's son on my back My mind playing tricks ?, to really ? Me out in five unless I take another hit I done seen the sun set on the other side of town Now I'm drifting in the darkness, Heaven hold me down The water's seepin' in but I know I'm born dying Feel the tears of the angels looking down on me crying Lord I haven't asked fo yo forgiveness in a while And I'm sorry, never let me forget that I'm your child While I'm locked up in this basement staring eye to eye with Satan In this cold dark world with no patience We get plotted on by agents with talks of replacing The Africans, Jamaicans and the Haitians in this next generation
[Wyclef] We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die The only thing I fear is the after life Cus I don't know what's there on the other side But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try
[Rah Digga] Whoa, we the next generation, look at what we facing The kids raise themselves, all kind of temptation Flowers and candles decorating all the pavements Another perpetrator never seein' no arraignments Nobody cares about the feelings of the poor Many suffer while we spending eighty billion on a war, uh Cutting school budgets, US stockmarkets plummet Conditions only worsen and I wonder what become it Metal detectors replace music classes Angry little kids wanna beat their teacher's asses The red and blue, somebody gotta lose Reality TV be reality for who? I don't question what the Lord found in me I just pass it on to folks with no boundaries Got a long road ahead of us, AIDS already gettin' us Now we got SARS, how many will there be left of us?
[Wyclef] We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die The only thing I fear is the after life Cus I don't know what's there on the other side But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try