Dreadlocks can't live in a tenement yard
I & I can't live in a no tenement yard
Jah, penetrate in a tenement yard

Dreadlocks can't live in a tenement yard
I & I can't live in a no tenement yard
Can't I-nitate in a tenement yard


Dreadlocks can't live in privacy
Cause anything him do, old ^!$$% see

Hook: Too much watchy, watchy, watchy
Too much sus, sus, sus, sus, sus,
Dreadlocks can't smoke them pipe in peace

Too much Babylon & too much beast

Dreadlocks can't penetrate the rent-man

Cause all him a do is sell Jah-Jah land

Dreadlocks can't live under constant laws

Too much Babylon means too many laws

I was born twenty years ago today

Well at least when I wrote this
Holiday: December tre
Livin' life out a focus

I'm hopin' not to get caught up
With a felonization
But I grew up in a nation not ready for legalization

They tease me with the American dream
But wait it gets deep
The American dream has gotta be a dream

If you believe in it, you sleep
Reality ain't nothin' nice
You gotta do right

Or get caught up by the vice
Three strikes = life
Trife livin', catch me with some weed and now they give

Incarceration
Yes on felony: job application
Got me hatin' these choices struggle minimum wage

Increase a little, not enough for me in this day and
Age
How the hell you 'posed to buy a car to drive to school

The average job today be payin' five and a few
Somethin' in my pocket missin' my one fear
$10, 000 for tuition, that's one year!

I'm not a teen no mo'; I got my chances to reform
They're tryin' to break me down by puttin' narcs up in
The dorms

People gon do what they gotta do regardless
We don't want the law to baby-sit us, we want it to
Guard us

Guard us from the rapists, kidnappers, and thieves
Not to incarcerate us strictly for havin' weed
My sympathies go out to those set up by a snitch

Dreadlocks forever be poor as long as Babylon's rich

Chico can't smoke them pipe in peace

Too much Babylon and too much beast

Chico can't smoke them bongs outside

Cause Babylon wanna take you and I for a ride