They Don't Know - Jahaziel, Maxi Priest

They don’t know, they don’t know

They don’t know what we go through

Everyday we keep on dying

They don’t care, they don’t care

Shut their ears and close their eyes

Only God can hear us crying

I’m from the bits where kids there have been known to disappear

Some roam with knives and chrome 'cuz they live in fear

While on the corners the poor man are sipping beer

Begging for change, same pain just a different year

Now come picture the landscape, victims of gang rape and kids trynna bag weight

They flip like a pancake so, arguments end with arms extending peace but it’s

not a handshake

They peel back and let the steel clap

Some wanna escape but feel trapped, yeah this is real rap

'Cuz getting jobs ain’t easy when you got no CV

Just a record but not no CD

I see these guys remaining in the same spot

Instead of changing they’re complaining what they ain’t got

Stop.

Transformation’s the job at hand

They say «we can’t» but my faith’s in the God that can

It seems like we don’t like love

From streets to schools, neighbourhoods to nightclubs

Too much of these young G’s are on a hype bruv

They done beef with just one squeeze and let the pipe bust

And it don’t help fi make the Uni fees rise up

Hard enough already pon school leavers to find jobs

And it ain’t helping that there’s preachers whose trying to thief from believers

And make it hard for the people to find God

Some find it odd they wanna know how come we move to the hood

Most trynna move out from

I’m showing dons on the council flats they can break outta the trap

Without a ounce of crack

And needing loot’s an excuse that I won’t give

'Cuz I know one too many youths doing life long bids

And I know one too many Daddies who deny their kids

That’s why I’m standing in the valley screaming «dry bones live!»

Yeah Lord, only He can hear me holla

Here today, no guarantee I’m a be here tomorrow

Gotta celebrate life, every day another heart ceases

If we can’t see it, that’s 'cuz we don’t wanna

Time to rediscover teachings that Jesus brung us

Two things to watch, how we love God and how we treat each other

Would we feed a brother if we see them suffer

If we do then does that mean that our responsibility is covered?

Plain and simple as I can put it

Raised in a generation whose ways are sinful and crooked

Played games 'til the bill came and I couldn’t foot it

Moved by grace, saw the route of escape and I took it

It’s a new day, lets do this ting

The Lord switched up the ways that I used to think

You can force any horse to the water

But in order for the horse to see change gotta choose to drink