System yah intend fi make you bawl and make you beg Now there's a war and blood a shed So duck and crawl under yuh bed 'Cause man nuh fraid fi buss dem gun T'il barrel bun, until it done That's how we living day to day I just don't see no other way And though the evil pon display Catch a stray when AK spray Three head fly weh pon one scene Two more gone over Papine Why we people suffer so? What they see is what they know No need to plea, no mercy show And want to flee, nowhere to go It depends pon what you choose Fi make it out or make it pon the news The system yah rough Everybody wicked and tough Every man want lock a one shoes Good or bad, no man no want lose The system yah rough Everybody wicked and tough, yeah System yah design fi make the people lose them mind Just to live, man turn to crime Take your tings and make them mine 38 inna mi waist Point that up straight inna yuh face Inna shootout with police Kill two store owner last week Circumstances gave no choice So don't play 'round with your life Hard of hearing, nah talk twice Silencer don't make no noise Any day could be my last And the worst shall come to pass But until then, man will just be The baddest man that dem can be It depends pon what you choose Fi make it out or make it pon the news The system yah rough Everybody wicked and tough Every man want lock a one shoes Good or bad, no man no want lose The system yah rough Everybody wicked and tough, yeah It start get normal, it start get secular Dem no partial, you coulda badder than America Coulda up-class, middle class or a regular You will get it quicker than a call pon yuh cellular Group pon WhatsApp full a bare contract First man see it, well you know a him a grab that Happiest man will have a gun inna him knapsack And you nah know till you diss him and him grab that Fools said that them can't clip them wing Acting like dem know everything Sleepless nights protecting yuh kin A quick one reach you right as him blink Element of surprise come under disguise Approach from behind, dem friend take dem life So set up before you meet your demise Da system yah set fi youths lose dem life It depends pon what you choose Fi make it out or make it pon the news The system yah rough Everybody wicked and tough Every man want lock a one shoes Good or bad, no man no want lose The system yah rough Everybody wicked and tough, yeah