[Intro]
Yeah
Uh-uh-uh, uh, uh-uh-uh-uh
(Uh, uh)
Frass, a 'nuff time man stress and desperate
'Nuff nuh mek nuh step, mi neva get nowhere
Man ah go try 'til bread nuh left (Yeah)
[Verse 1]
But what if mi did give up and tell miself seh mi cyaan badda?
Wouldn't find a chart-topper
Pocket wouldn't green, grasshopper
Couldn't help my daddy, nor momma
Neva siddung 'pon corner a
Idle, mi ah find songs and a
Big stage mi want perform 'pon a
Waving, mi see di fans and a
Frass, so afar man ah come from
Life weh hard, man ah come from
Ah suh mi know yuh can do it too
Every ghetto yute
Hungry days weh man a come from
But still man rise from the dungeon
A suh mi know you can do it too
Every ghetto youth
[Verse 2]
One bag a chat in a mi ears
Bout weh mi haffi do fi start lock in a the place
But in a Jah mi put mi faith
Now years goes by
Look a who a pull the gate (Hah)
The ones them where never have nothing good fi say
Mountain put me there
Now the world a look fi me
When mi mother done cook she say
[Chorus]
"Jahmiel, far we come from"
Life where hard man a come from
A so me know you can do it too
Every ghetto youth
Hungry days where man a come from
But still, man rise from the dungeon
So me know you can do it too
Every ghetto youth
[Verse 3]
The youth dem a tower hill
Seh if a building, a our skill
Mi haffi move on
Mi nuh see none a chill (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
And there were days when I feel like giving up, yeah
But now a glory time
Nothing never happen before the time
[Chorus]
Far we come from
Life where hard man a come from
A so me know them can do it too
Every ghetto youth
Hungry days where man a come from
Still, man rise from the dungeon
So me know you can do it too
Every ghetto youth
[Outro]
Far, man a come from