In these days you can get no rice
  No razor blades but you can get knife
  In these days see the people run
  They have no food but the boy have gun
  In these days they don't throw the stone
  Nor use the voice they use the gun alone
  In these days to be an oddity
  Be hunted down like a scarcity
    In these days don't beg for life
  Wanna take Kingston advice?
  Oh please don't beg for your life
    In these days the beat is militant
  Must be a clash there's no alternative
  In these days nations are militant
  We have slavery under government
  In these days in the firmament
  I look for signs that are permanent
    In these days with no love to give
  The world will turn with no one left to live
    In these days I don't know what to do
  The more I see the more I'm destitute
  In these days I don't know what to sing
  The more I know the less my tune can swing
    In these days you can get no rice
  No razor blades but you can get knife
  In these days see the people run
  They have no food but the boy have gun