Album Cover Nothing To Smile About

Nothing To Smile About

Morgan Heritage

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Nuff people come to Jamaica

And nuh know how we live think seh

Everything nice through we full of vibes and thinkHey, hey, dem say want feelin′ to dem heart

When dem get fi overstand di real thing, yeah

Mi deh ya town one day

A par with a white man weh come all the way from Norway

And him turn to mi and say

How comes Jamaica full of so much screwface

Same time mi lift mi head to the sky

And a tear drop fall from mi eye

Mi say my youth come we go out for a drive

Mek mi show you why mi cry

Look 'pon di gully side

Do you see anything fi smile ′bout

Look at that hungry child yeah

Do you see anything fi smile 'bout

Look at the school weh deh youth dem go fi get dem education

Do you see anything fi smile 'bout

Look at the conditions of our police stations

Do you see anything fi smile ′bout, no

Same time the bredda say

How can a nation be living this way

And the next thing him say

How can the government play so many games

Same time mi heart fall to the ground

′Cause there's much more where that come from

Certain place deh ya worse dan slum

Youth man come

And take a look ′pon Riverton

Do you see anything fi smile 'bout

Look pon Payne Land, yeah

Do you see anything fi smile ′bout

Flankers, Mobay and Sufferers Heights in Nos Spain

Do you see anything fi smile 'bout

Hope Flats, Kentiyah, Motom Bay are all the same

Do you see anything fi smile ′bout

No, no

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Oh no no, oh no no

No, let me say

Nuff people come to Jamaica

And nuh know how we live think seh

Everything nice through we full of vibes and think

Hey, hey, dem say want feelin' to dem heart

When dem get fi overstand di real thing

When dem look 'pon the gully side

Dem nuh see nottin′ deh deh fi smile ′bout

When dem look 'pon a hungry child yeah

Dem nuh see nottin′ deh deh fi smile 'bout

When dem look pon deh schools weh de youth dem go fi get dem education

Dem nuh see nottin′ deh deh fi smile 'bout

When dem sight up the conditions of our police stations

Dem nuh see nottin′ deh deh fi smile 'bout

The story seh

Mi deh ya town one day

A par with a white man weh come all the way from Norway

And him turn to mi and say

How comes Jamaica full of so much screwface

Same time mi lift mi head to the sky

And a tear drop fall from mi eye

Mi sey my youth come we go out for a drive

Mek mi show you why mi cry

Take a look 'pon Riverton

Do you see anything fi smile ′bout

Look ′pon Payne Land

Do you see anything fi smile 'bout

Canterberry Mobay, March Pen

Do you see anything fi smile ′bout

Nuff likkle place deh ya inna Jamdown today

Weh nottin' no deh deh fi smile ′bout

No no

No no no no no no no no no no

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

No no no no no

Nottin' no deh fi smile bout