Lyrics:

[Intro:]
Jamaica we need a way

Tell mi Mill
A how mi youth fi survive
How mi fi send him go school in this time
If mi don't mek money
Di politician come pon tv
A show we this big pretty smile
Notin nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)

[Chorus:]
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Is a betta way we seekin
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Notin nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)

[Verse 1:]
Mi haffi hide from the landlord
Becah mi owe bout four months rent
Weekend a come mi nuh have a red cent
Cry mi cry when mi hear mi son seh
Daddy can you please buy me a Nike Air
And di likkle money weh mi have done spend
Di last grand mi have mi pay di light but wata
Commission cut mi pipe again
Hmmm...

[Hook:]
Di garrison need a betta way
And a betta life (fi we pickney dem)
Society,
Please don't condemn di ghetto to hell
Just...

[Chorus:]
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Is a betta way we seekin
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Notin nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)

[Verse 2:]
Big woman ting
Notin nah gwaan
Ghetto youth haffi sidung pon di corna
Some a we a hustle
Some a beg a chump change

Society please mek this better days
Mi go fi buy a bagga frass but cigarette raise
All we a cry dem a gih we tuff days
Then if di times so hard right now
From mi born inna the country and mi neva ten years
Hmmm...

[Hook:]
Di garrison need a betta way
And a betta life (fi we pickney dem)
Society
Please don't condemn di ghetto to hell
Just...

[Chorus:]
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Is a betta way we seekin
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Notin nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)

[Bridge:]
Tell mi Mill
A how mi youth fi survive
How mi fi send him go school in this time
If mi don't mek money
Di politician come pon tv
A show we this big pretty smile
Notin nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)

[Chorus:]
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Is a betta way we seekin
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Notin nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny)

[Outro:]
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Is a betta way we seekin
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Look pon di life we living
Notin nuh funny (nuh funny, nuh funny, nuh funny, nuh funny)