The Struggle
Bunji Garlin Lyrics

Yuh think this come with a free pass?
Do you believe that living here is easy and free of danger?

A nice little house and green grass
Living here is not all sunshine and rainbows

Dis ah some ah the vilest creatures
Living here, we encounter some of the most dangerous people

And if yuh come here with ah weak heart
If you cannot handle it, this place is not for you

Yuh go pass out before the weak pass
You will faint before the weak ones

Dis worse than jeepers creepers
This is much worse than any horror movie

Werewolf, monsters and reapers
There are real-life monsters and terrors here

I come from a different timing
I come from a different time period

Where you walk on a very thin lining
You have to be very careful in this environment

Was either music or badness
It was either getting involved in the music scene or criminal activities

And you could lose yuh life in d rhyming
You could die pursuing your dreams in the music industry

Many place we woulda go to sing
We performed at many venues

Man have ice pick and blades
Dangerous people carried weapons

And long things weh shining
And had long, shiny weapons

And the adversary of the night
And the dangerous people who come out at night

Might enter the venue
Might enter the place we're performing

With a death squad behind him
With a group of violent people with him

And if you tell them the wrong thing
If you say something they don't like

Ah guarantee d next six... seven months yu hiding
You will have to hide for several months

Cuz that squad weh riding
Because that group of people is very intimidating

Dem nuh fraid no police uniform neither siren
They are not afraid of the police or their sirens

The incorrect path of speech
Saying the wrong thing

Cud make yuh end up inna d gulf of paria
Could get you thrown into the Gulf of Paria

But the mic right and the light bright
But if you perform well, it is rewarding

And you fight like a warrior.
You fight for your chance to make it in the music industry

So when yuh see meh bun up the place
When you see me doing well

Lee meh lemme bun up the place
Let me continue doing well

And when yuh see meh tun up the place
When you see me doing even better

Cause bredda i come from the place
Because I come from this environment

Is either the mic or yuh gone in ah grave
It's either music or death

Drop tune and make the children wine
Play music and make the kids dance

Big women and the big men wine
And make the adults dance too

Everybody do ah ting den wine
Everyone has their own dancing style

Even the mannequin dem wine
Even inanimate objects seem to be moving

Yuh cyah have ah thin skin them time
You had to be tough back then

Cyah have ah yellow intestine
You couldn't be easily scared

I come from a different zone
I come from a different area

Where many people sheltered at home
Where many people stay at home out of fear

With them nice computers and phone
With nice computers and phones

With them fresh bank account and loan
And fresh bank accounts and loans

12 o′clock in the night we ah roam
We go out at night, at 12 o'clock

Warlords no money to go home
Dangerous people with nowhere else to go

Nobody had mechanical surgery
Cosmetic surgery was not common

But everybody hips had chrome
But everyone had a nice body shape

We stay sharp we doh care what the topic was
We stay alert and don't care what the topic of conversation is

Reach the destination we nuh care what the traffic was
We don't care about how long it takes to get where we're going

Lyrics always ready down below the oesophagus
We always had lyrics ready to perform

Get your dictionary learn about the oesophagus
Learn new words and expand your vocabulary

Step into the ring everybody know what trouble was
Entering the music industry was difficult and everyone knew it

Lyrics hard like a turtle back from up in the galapagos
Our lyrics were tough and durable like a turtle's shell

And we never had the time to play around with no stranglers
We were too busy to spend time with anyone unfamiliar

See them coming from afar me view with the binoculars
We watched and monitored strangers from a distance

And they couldn't come puppy us
They couldn't take advantage of us

And mi know what a duppy was
And I know what ghosts are

And we never give a damn bout what yuh job or yuh hobby was
We didn't care about your profession or hobbies

If ah see yuh by the hotel we woulda catch weh the lobby was
If we saw you near a hotel, we would have assumed the worst

Even right upon the corner where me and where Robbie was
Even on our own street corner, we were cautious

I mean the scene is so ravenous
The music industry is so competitive and dangerous

Everybody is grabbing us
Everyone wants to be successful

And they looking at us like they want to hurry some stab in us
And they look at us like they want to hurt us

So we join in the circle
So we hang out with other people in the music industry

No falter like erkel
Don't hesitate, like Steve Urkel

Slap on the purple and be a terror that′s fabulous
And perform confidently and fearlessly