In these days you can get no rice

No razor blades but you can get knife

In these days see the people run

They have no food but the boy have gun

In these days they don't throw the stone

Nor use the voice they use the gun alone

In these days to be an oddity

Be hunted down like a scarcity



In these days don't beg for life

Wanna take Kingston advice?

Oh please don't beg for your life



In these days the beat is militant

Must be a clash there's no alternative

In these days nations are militant

We have slavery under government

In these days in the firmament

I look for signs that are permanent



In these days with no love to give

The world will turn with no one left to live



In these days I don't know what to do

The more I see the more I'm destitute

In these days I don't know what to sing

The more I know the less my tune can swing



In these days you can get no rice

No razor blades but you can get knife

In these days see the people run

They have no food but the boy have gun