Youth, watch how you walk on the roads
Watch how you talk on the roads
Dem there youth nah like how you do
Dem nah like you
Please tek your time
Before you hurt
Before you splirt
The roads full of dirt
Youth, please tek your time
The roads them cold
So you know where you go
Dem want tek your dough
Youth, please tek your time
Ca' they don't want see you strive
Ca' them want tek your tings
So mind youth
Please tek your time... and go
Don't watch them no
So dem bad-mind yo
Youth, please tek your time
Youth, mind where you walk pon road
Ca' dem boy want fi shoot you
Bad-mind, jealousy a kill dem
So dem boy there want fi bruise you
They don't like the way you go and making all that paper
Them there boy a hater You haffi open up your eyes and see where they're coming from
Ca' dem boy there
They don't want to see you living long
So you haffi be strong
Youth, please tek your time
Before you hurt
Before you splirt
The roads full of dirt
Youth, please tek your time
Ca' they don't want see you strive
Ca' them want tek your ting
So mind youth
Please tek your time... and go
Don't watch them no
So dem bad-mind yo
Youth, please tek your time
Tek your time
Keep watching where you step
Ca' prey dem a prey
They want take everything you get
Them nah like you, them hate
Them would love fi bruck your neck
Just because your making money
Them nah want fi show respect
No... we no care bout them
No... and we nah watch them
No... dem nah boy nah like we
Ca' right now is money I see
Youth, please tek your time
Before you hur,
Before you splirt
The roads full of dirt
Youth, please tek your time
The roads them cold
So you know where you go
Dem want tek your dough
Youth, please tek your time
Ca' they don't want see you strive
Ca' them want tek your tings
So mind youth
Please tek your time... and go
Don't watch them no
So dem bad-mind yo
Youth, please tek your time
Youth, please tek your time
Before you hurt
Before you splirt
The roads full of dirt
Youth please tek your time
The roads them cold
So you know where you go
Dem want tek your dough
Youth, please tek your time
Ca' they don't want see you strive
Ca' them want tek your tings
So mind youth
Please tek your time... and go
Don't watch them no
So dem bad-mind yo
Youth, please tek your time