Can't Breathe

Can't Breathe
 Song by Kabaka Pyramid
 Dem system is a strain and a mess
 Me feel it like a pain inna me chest
 The people need a rest
 I, feel like me cyaan breathe
 Inna this yah suffocation
 The people living inna sufferation
 Me cyaan breathe, me cyaan breathe
 When the youths cyaan write and cyaan read
 Many cyaan spell, but a that dem have we under
 You cyaan tell the man different from woman yah
 The people dem a swell, the food a gi' we cancer
 Look how long we a tell dem 'bout the benefits a ganja
 Dem no like the smell, so we no get no sponsor
 Rum and cigarette company dem running rampant
 No money nah flow, the ghetto get so stagnant
 You haffi strong like Junior Gong flagman
 Me say me cyaan breathe
 Inna this yah suffocation
 The people living inna sufferation
 Me cyaan breathe, me feel claustrophobic
 Up inna system weh no economic growth is
 Me say me cyaan breathe
 Inna this yah suffocation
 The people living inna sufferation
 Me cyaan breathe, me cyaan breathe
 When the youths cyaan write and cyaan read
 Inna the depths of this mental pollution
 Dem waan we tek a dive, living in destitution
 But still we a survive, in spite a persecution
 We humble as child, becah this revolution
 Is of a different kind, we have a different mind
 I pree some different sings living inna different time
 I can feel the frequencies changing around me
 Is like the society a drown me
 I, feel like me cyaan breathe
 Inna this yah suffocation
 The people living inna sufferation
 Me cyaan breathe, me cyaan breathe
 When the youths cyaan write and cyaan read
 Aye!
 A long time the Rastaman a warn dem
 Fi lowe the bloody meat and go tek it to the farm dem
 Now a just disease dem a put inna the corn
 And the damn soya bean, you must start farm
 And the youth dem a the future, yet the police a remand dem
 Tell Queen Elizabeth gi' we wha' we demand
 A repatriation chant, to the motherland
 Yes, we gone, then we no waan resort fi go harm dem
 I, feel like me cyaan breathe
 Inna this yah suffocation
 The people living inna sufferation
 Me cyaan breathe, me cyaan breathe
 When the youths cyaan write and cyaan read
 Whoa, now, now, now
 Schi-bi-li-bang
 The Rastaman is chanting now
 Aye! The nyabinghi haffi sound
 Babylon is burning down, yeah
 A King Selassie I a wear the crown
 Whoa now, now, now
 I, feel like me cyaan breathe
 Inna this yah suffocation
 The people living inna sufferation
 Me cyaan breathe, me cyaan breathe
 When the youths cyaan write and cyaan read