In the streets it's getting hot and the youths
Them a get so cold
Searching for food for the pot
They'll do anything to fill that gap whoo
In the streets it's getting hot and the youths
Them a get so cold
Searching for food for the pot
They'll do anything to fill that gap
As generation comes and goes
You gatta make preparation
For the youths them a grow
It's what you reap it's what you sow
The youths them have a life in the future
So when that's then you know
If education is the key
Then tell me why the people have to
Make it so expensive for we
Give them the key oh set them free
In the streets it's getting hot and the youths
Them a get so cold
Searching for food for the pot
They'll do anything to fill that gap whoo
In the streets it's getting hot and the youths
Them a get so cold
Searching for food for the pot
They'll do anything to fill that gap
Oh na na na ayy eee eee oh na na na
Oh na na na na na na na na na
You gatta find a better way
'Cause wen we look in a Babylon
Me see a bearful play
And so the Gideon stay
Ay all nation come together
Know that Kingston Selassie the truth
And the light and the way
Kingston people lead them in the right way eee
In the streets it's getting hot
And the youths them a get so co-o-oold
Searching for food for the pot
They'll do anything to fill that gap whoo-o
In the streets it's getting hot
And the youths them a get so co-o-oold
Searching for food for the pot
They'll do anything to fill that gap
You gat to show the people
There's still a brighter way ayy
I know for sure the sun will come out today ayy
Vanity is an illusion
Will have to fade away ayy yeah
And all the wicked deeds that done
You know you gat to pay ayy
In the streets it's getting hot
And the youths them a get so co-o-oold
Searching for food for the pot
They'll do anything to fill that gap whoo-o
In the streets it's getting hot
And the youths them a get so co-o-oold
Searching for food for the pot
They'll do anything to fill that gap
As generation comes and go
You gotta make preparation
For the youths them a grow
It's what you reap it's what you sow
The youths them have a life in the future
So when thats then you know
If education is the key
Then tell me why the people have to
Make it so expensive for we
Give them the key oh set them free eeeeeeeeee