Something’s Gotta Give

AGENT Sasco
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Well, me say something's gotta give
Me get a daughter now, so me haffi think smarter now
It means say me a think constructive
It's like say mi brain a mix matter now
Over the years we put in the work, sweat run inna mi shirt
Yes, the work a pay off yah now
A that's why we a tour the world and boardhouse a mash up
All the Clarks yah now, 'cause wha'?
Something's gotta give

Most of the youth dem nuh have no manners, parents a get soft yah now
Anuh TV a grow the youth dem, Spongebob and Patrick, no mention South Park yah now
And if dem all a surf the internet and you not even a check or monitor wha' dem a watch yah now
How you waan kick and box yah now, when dem same little pickney dem a tell you 'bout your 'claat yah now?
'Cause something's gotta give

Righteousness a get less, a more dread than Rasta now
And nuff of the people dem dash 'way dem Bible, it's like say nobody nah listen to no pastor now
And that is why the place in a state, hurricane and earthquake, and a pure disaster now
And me say, East, West, North, and South a bere drought, we not even have water now
Because something's gotta give

Oh yes, we gotta live, you have to watch the life that you live
'Cause something's gotta give
It means say if you're living negative it can't amount to nothing positive
'Cause something's gotta give
So, even though you don't know when it is, it coulda wait fi take you when you inna your seventies
You cannot outsmart the rules dem, no feel like you a wiz
Because the fact of the matter is something's gotta -
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Investment scheme fi fulfill dream, see it the whole of dem crash yah now
Mi touch certain endz, a nuff Range and Benz, me a tell you, nuff BM's (BMW's) a sell off yah now
And me a tell you say a whole heap of a man did US inna millions and him can't even find a quarter now
The whole thing stop yah now
Millionaire turn pauper now
Something's gotta give

Fi a while we a depend pon oil, the world run off of gas yah now
And there's no solution for all of the pollution, the river dem full up of trash yah now
And if we just a cut down all of the tree dem, gwan like we no need dem, look wha' it cost yah now
Dem a issue warning say global warming, the Earth a get hotter now
'Cause something's gotta give

We living in a material world and me no mean piece of cloth yah now
It's like people no care 'bout your thought or your heart, it's all what you got yah now
'Til all the very clothes dem a wear, a that dem a stare, dem fall inna the trap yah now
Fi vanity dem sell dem soul, see it deh, Satan inna dem shop yah now
'Cause something's gotta give

Oh yes, we gotta live, you have to watch the life that you live
'Cause something's gotta give
It means say if you're living negative it nah amount to nothing positive
'Cause something's gotta give
So, even though you don't know when it is, it coulda wait fi take you when you inna your seventies
You cannot outsmart the system, no feel like you a wiz
The fact of the matter is something's gotta give