Words of The Week: 'Garrison' by Lutan Fyah

'Garrison' by Lutan Fyah

Give thanx you know
Yeah
Blessings and Salutations
This for one love, this for one cause
This to educate, this to entertain
Whoa

Tell me what’s the reason why the youths them suffer
When everything is there, for us to inherit in life
We never get enough of, High Society they bank all the wage and a say samfi
They mad their the rules and laws
Ghetto living is a mess, for us, no man cares at all
Hungry belly pickney, white squall, yet still we survive it all

Deep in the garrison, the garrison!
People ah face sufferation caan done
Down inna di garrison, the garrison
Nuff youth caan tek it and dem turn to di gun
Deep in the garrison, the garrison!
People ah face sufferation caan done
Down inna di garrison, the garrison
6 foot deep some gone under ground

Hey dem say money is essential, first education come
They pay the price on the GSAT curriculum
And if you fail the literacy test they say you dumb
Yet we send the youth to learn the language and the songs
What a ting inna society!
Dem no provide di people wid no job opportunity
So dem lock we inna ramshackle community
Rob di people of their unity

Deep in di garrison, di garrison!
People ah face Sufferation caan done
Down inna di garrison, the garrison
Nuff youth caan tek it and dem turn to di gun
Deep in the garrison, the garrison!
People ah face sufferation caan done
Down inna di garrison, the garrison
Nuff gone 6 feet deep underground

These leaders go all for themselves
For the people, dem no care
Dem ah brought di bread, but wid di youths dem, dem no share
These false promises getting nowhere
Di youths dem inna doubt and fear
Words without commitment
And I no see no upliftment
All I can see is peer detriment
Board house and zinc fence

Deep in di garrison, di garrison!
People ah face Sufferation caan done
Down inna di garrison, the garrison
Nuff youth caan tek it and dem turn to di gun
Deep in the garrison, the garrison!
People ah face sufferation caan done
Down inna di garrison, the garrison
Nuff gone 6 feet deep underground . . .

Deep in di garrison, di garrison!
People ah face Sufferation caan done
Down inna di garrison, the garrison
Nuff youth caan tek it dem go turn to dem gun
Di garrison, di garrison . . .

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