JA
Protoje Lyrics

They never gonna love you
They will never be able to love you

They never coulda love you
It is impossible for them to love you

Protoje ay ay ay
Protoje's chant-like interjection

They never gonna love you JA like I love you JA ay ay
No one else will ever love Jamaica the way I do

They never gonna need you like I need you that's why I'll be stay ay ay aying
No one else will need Jamaica like I do, that's why I will keep staying here

And no me naa go lef'you for another land, that's not my plan
I will never leave Jamaica for another country, it's not in my plans

Even though the times get hard and the mindset hardm no mi can't lef'Yard (me a TRY!)
Even though times get tough and the environment becomes tough, I can't leave Jamaica

Even though the body dem a pile and the gun dem a oil, can't lef'off a me soil (justTRY!)
Even though the bodies pile up and guns are ready, I cannot leave my homeland (just try and make me)

Even though the times get rough now and life get snuff out, dem things we a tough out (TRY!)
Even when things get challenging and life becomes suffocating, we persist (trying our best)

Tell them say no matter what a talk and no matter what a spark, yow a yah so me heart
No matter what anyone says or does, Jamaica is where my heart lies

I never been a shotta but I seen a shotta
I have never been a criminal, but I have witnessed criminal activity

Meet a meaner shotta and get shot up by a senior shotta
If you meet a more dangerous criminal, you'll be shot up by a higher-ranking criminal

Seen a mother seen her son, dead a ground, glock around
I have witnessed a mother discovering her dead son lying on the ground with a gun nearby

Nuh know say that a come
The mother did not expect this to happen

She need a shot a rum
The mother needs a drink to calm down

No need no doctor come pronounce him gone
No need for a doctor to declare him dead

Him done seem calm, the shotta shift him ounce and gone
The criminal removes the gun from the dead boy's hand and disappears

And if him touch the route again
And if the dead boy's friends retaliate

The dead yute him have a group o'friends
The dead boy had a group of friends

Weh buss it like a JUTA man
The friends of the dead boy will act like a group of angry JUTA drivers

And them a (TRY!)
And they will try their best to get revenge

I never been a fedi but I seen a fedi
I have never been a corrupt police officer, but I have seen corrupt police officers

Take a piece o'evidence and plant it pon the scene already
A corrupt cop takes a piece of evidence and plants it at the scene of the crime

Me see them kill seven youth out deh
I have seen them kill seven young people out there

A never shoot out deh
It wasn't a shootout, they were executed

Execution, a so them do it out deh
They execute young people like that out there

A that me hear a echo round the ghetto
That's all I hear echoed around the ghetto

I hear it from a distant hill, response still
I hear the echo from a faraway hill and there is still no response

I get an instant chill when infants die
It gives me a sudden chill when innocent children die

When them drive by in an instance I
When they drive by and shoot people in an instant

And things start fly and them a (TRY!)
And things start flying around and people try to survive