Pressure - Pato Banton

Now this one is specially dedicated to all people living in poverty

And directed at all those people in high society

'Cause when it comes to feeling pressure

None of them don’t feel it like we

Now dem no know 'bout pressure

In high society

Dem no know 'bout pressure

Dem no feel it like we

Well now is I man Pato Banton

And I man Daddy Tippa

We a chat pon microphone

Well as two blood brother

'Cause we born in a the ghetto

As two sufferer

With we mother and we father

We sister and brother

Well I live in Birmingham

And I’m a Londoner

But is how we get together

Some of them a wonder

By coach by train

Or even by car

Rich man a catch plane

And them taking helicopter

'Cause…

Well this lyric ain’t no joke

And it’s not funny

'Cause what we’re gonna chat

Well is reality

'Cause a whole heap of people

Dem inna poverty

And a whole lot of families

Dem inna agony

Inna Ethiopia

Well dem a dead fe hungry

And inna South Africa

Dem a fight to be free!

Free like the birds

Up inna the tree

And free like the fishes

Down inna the sea

We are British citizens

But this is not our country

'Cause we’re a part of the ethnic minority

Now we’re gonna send this lyric to the Iron Lady

And the whole of the conservative party

'Cause…

About 4 million unemployed in our country

Man a get redundant through machinery

Now living in the ghettos it don’t easy

We have to try a little hustling to make some money

That’s why we don’t blame a man fe sell sensi

And we can see why certain man dem a commit robbery

'Cause the dole and (social) security just don’t ready

That’s why we feel it for the old and we feel it for the young

And we feel it for each and every family

Because dem nar spend no money on the community

Dem just a spend dem money on nuclear energy

From my point of view they must be getting ready

Getting ready for what?

World War Three

The rich will be safe and also Maggie

The Queen and the whole of de Royal Family

Dem a go catch a space ship and leave de country

Dem a go live on the moon and have space babies

But what about Pato and Tippa Irie

And the other 60 million people in the country

Dem no know 'bout pressure