[Intro:]
The youth dem bawl tears
And a no one cares!
Sean Paul with a wake up call
Cau' the ghetto yute dem still a bawl
Hear this

[Pre- Chorus]
Cryin cryin cryin .. The ghetto people crying
Have mercy!
Cying Cryin Cryin ... The Ghetto People Crying

[Chorus]
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
We nah vote it inna star and watch it 'pon TV
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
You read it inna magazine and watch it 'pon movie

[Verse 1]
Mama she a bawl, sure she well hungry
She only have enough money fi feed dem pickney
She send Steve and Johnny fi go find dem daddy
But daddy him junk and freaky freaky
Dem haffi walk pon the road and beg food money
While the richman uptown a dealing US currency
[Chours]
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
We nah vote it inna star and watch it 'pon TV
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
You read it inna magazine and watch it 'pon movie

[Verse 2]
Now tell me
Now grown people, what a gwaan inna we land?
Every corner weh me stand me only see the junk stand
Dem nuh want work dem only sell copper can
The one weh name Errol and weh come from Japan
The only thing that in your brain is wash it down the drain
Hear me now crown a people master God a born

[Chours]
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
We nah vote it inna star and watch it 'pon TV
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
You read it inna magazine and watch it 'pon movie

[Pre-Chorus]
Cryin Cryin Cryin .. The Ghetto People Crying
Cying Cryin Cryin ... The Ghetto People Crying

[Verse 3]
Hear me now
Now Johnny him grow up and live 'pon the street
Policeman a only man only man kick out him teeth
Again him haffi dig inna the garbage fi eat
What kinda life him a live!?
Then start wicked, dem start rob and thief and thief and con
Next thing you hear, him get conviction
Him mother run fi check him down a penitencian
Forward send him to war and him nah sell 21
[Chorus]
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
We nah vote it inna star and watch it 'pon TV
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
You read it inna magazine and watch it 'pon movie
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
We nah vote it inna star and watch it 'pon TV
It's an alarm this, It a ghetto story
You read it inna magazine and watch it 'pon movie

[Verse 3]
Mama she a bawl, sure she well hungry
She only have enough money fi feed dem pickney
She send Steve and Johnny fi go find dem daddy
But daddy him junk and freaky freaky
Dem haffi walk pon the road and beg food money
While the richman uptown a dealing US currency