[Intro:]
Life, life,life, nowadays inna life, life
It harder... hey Zum (Zum)

[Chorus:]
Things get sticky inna earth
Cyan buy a pants and we cyan buy a shirt (buy a shirt)
Man a search and cyan get no work
What I'm gonna do, what I might to do (do)
Things get hard inna earth
Nuff time me see mama bawl cah she hurt
Cyan even find di offerin fi gi curch
What we gonna do, what we gonna do

[Verse 1:]
Life hard we affi face it (face it)
A nuff youth deh out a road a waste it
Nowadays it's all about survival
A when dem youth ya make it mi affi rate it (rate it)
Things no stay like one time again
When u coulda call pon a real good friend
A bare hand-to-mouth cyan borrow cyan lend
Ah problem when youths waan money fi spend
Cause right now

[Chorus:]
Things get sticky inna earth
Cyan buy a pants and we cyan buy a shirt (buy a shirt)
Man a search and cyan get no work
What I'm gonna do, what I might to do (do)
Things get hard inna earth
Nuff time me see mama bawl cah she hurt
Cyan even find di offerin fi gi curch
What we gonna do, what we gonna do

[Verse 2:]
(Yeah)
Give thanks fi di likkle weh u got my youth
And if one dumplin inna yuh pot my youth (my youth)
Try no sell out, keep yuh heads up
And give thanks nuh matta how the food min-ute
Some a look a fast cars so dem get a fast wuk
Cyan mek dem drive or nuh get caught up
Some a watch people things and a pree
Some a dem tun dem back some go down pon knee
Yuh know seh...

[Chorus:]
Things get sticky inna earth
Cyan buy a pants and we cyan buy a shirt (buy a shirt)
Man a search and cyan get no work
What I'm gonna do, what I might to do (do)
Things get hard inna earth
Nuff time me see mama bawl cah she hurt
Cyan even find di offerin fi gi curch
What we gonna do, what we gonna do

Life (life), life, life
Nowadays inna life, life
It harder
What we gonna do