one big road

don't watch that

you got to watch this

woah

na na na na na na

woah

na na na na na na

woah

na na na na na na

night hey

woah

na na na na na na

woah

na na na na na na

night

life is one big road

with a lot a signs

youth-man growing up

'pon the borderline

better you live in love and nah commit no crime

oh vendors

beenie man cry fi you all the time

again

life is one big road

with a lot a signs

youth-man growing up

'pon the borderline

better you live in love and nah commit no crime

oh vendors

whoa now

how comes the babylon a talk 'bout all the gun thing fi down

when dem a stop the hustling and mek no dollars nah run

the youth dem have a tendency fi turn to dem gun

fi tie up mr. chin and all bruk him place down

well

dem haffi wear the latest brand weh come down

ghetto boys and ghetto girls dem just want to have fun

fi big up all the people who sell a arcade

most a dem a ghetto people and dem people dem no 'fraid

but wha' happen to the youths dem weh can't buy no stall

weh string up 'pon the sidewalk and mek a one call

government no matter 'bout dem people deh a tall

dem only cater fi the people who a mek dem tax tall

but again

life is one big road

with a lot a signs

youth-man growing up

'pon the borderline

better you live in love and nah commit no crime

oh vendors

beenie man a say is your time

again

life is one big road

with a lot a signs

youth-man growing up

'pon the borderline

better you live in love and nah commit no crime

oh vendors

woii

this is the love i'm preaching and teaching to all my brethren

i have to big up all my sistren still

woh deh deh lord all badman

listen woii! now

long time ago

back inna kingston city

life was hard but now the life silly

me hear say billy shot after barry

fi wha'?

the two a dem a 'par an the two a dem a natty

out a tastee one go buy a little patty

the others lock a holla fi a yatty

life is one big road

with a lot a signs

youth-man growing up

'pon the borderline

better you live in love and nah commit no crime

oh vendors

bawling again

again

again

life is one big road

with a lot a signs

youth-man growing up

'pon the borderline

better you live in love and nah commit no crime

oh vendors

woii

wan know how the ghetto youths dem a live

police a beat vendors and a treat dem like pig

all the youth dem weh live inna the village

woii

a after paper dem live some all a wipe car glass

man a laugh and have big talk

all ghetto youth a fi unno time now fi talk

step up inna life and mek the government see

all the things dem doing to we

but hear me sing

life is love

and life is livety

life is loneliness

and life is harmony

life is freedom

life is long love

give thanks to on to haile selassie

but

cho

life is one big road

with a lot a signs

youth-man growing up

'pon the borderline

better you live in love and nah commit no crime

oh vendors

beenie man a say is your time

again

life is one big road

with a lot a signs

youth-man growing up

'pon the borderline

better you live in love and nah commit no crime

oh vendors

whoa deh

deh deh deh deh. how comes the babylon a talk 'bout all the gun thing fi down

when dem a stop the hustling and all the dollars nah run

the youth dem have a tendency fi turn to dem gun

fi tie up mr. chin and all bruk him place down

dem haffi wear the latest brand weh come down

ghetto boys and ghetto girls dem just want to have fun

fi big up all the people who sell a arcade

most a dem a ghetto people and dem people dem no 'fraid

but wha' happen to the youths dem weh can't buy no stall

weh string up 'pon the sidewalk and mek a one call

government no matter 'bout dem people deh a tall

dem only cater fi the people who a mek dem tax tall

but again

life is one big road

with a lot a signs

youth-man growing up

'pon the borderline.