Trading Places

Switch it, just use your imagination. heh

Ghetto living uptown, uptown living in the garrison,(Talking)

Eeh! It wouldn't be easy, could never be easy, not at all, aaaah.

Yeah! A nuh disrespect, is jus people living other peoples footsteps, it's more like a reality check. yuh nah mean. hah

Imagine uptown people a live inna the ghetto fi a week, Week

Down town move gone inna the uptown town area things nice proper English dem a speak.

Uptown people could a neva stand it when the pipe dem a leak, Leak

First of all dem nuh know how fi bridge light, Nuh wah use the igloo with the ice them use to fridge life.

Picture Portia a live a Spain,

Picture Bruce Golding live a hundred lane,

Picture me, way richer dan Mattalon,

While him live a Kentire pon piece a capture land,

Picture Michael Lee-Chin hold off the gully side Him and the thugs dem a bleach so yuh cah go beside,

Picture, Bush Stewart a wipe car glass and a ask fi the change weh yuh got, Nooo, nooo.

It wouldn't be easy trading places with the ghetto,

It wouldnt be easy fi hear rich people voice a echo

It wouldn't be easy, it wouldnt be nice

To see us rise give dem a surprise and mek dem knoe we also can live these life.

What if Sizzla was commissioner,

Police couldnt arrest we fi a spliff

If alliance was National Security

Nuh body could never violate nor slip,

Suppose uptown people affi nyam chicken back and tun cornmeal go see dem wid finger a lick, now,

Imagine if ghetto youth a go a di ATM fi go draw cash uptown youths a pocket dem a pick, nooo, ayee

Me say we cah separate we self, uptown down town come mek we elevate we self,

Street knowledge it mek me educate miself fi be wiser, eh

Mi say we cah separate we self, uptown down town come mek we elevate we self,

Street knowledge mek me educate miself fi be wiser.

Picture Dat

It wouldn't be easy uptown trading places with the ghetto,

It wouldnt be easy

To hear rich people voice a echo it wouldn't be easy

It wouldnt be nice to see us rise give dem a surprise and mek dem knoe we can also live these life.

Picture dat, it wouldn't be easy, wouldn't be nice, no,

Could never be easy, trading places couldn't be nice, no, eehh, Busy!

Couldn't be nice, believe me nuh, wouldn't be nice, people.

Imagine uptown people living in the ghetto fi a week, A Week,

Down town move gone inna the uptown town area things nice proper english dem a speak.

(Talking)

Its so real, make me just talk da part ya (laughing).

Listen mi keenly; picture PJ at the studio a look a buss' as a dj (laugh),

Picture Pickersgill at the bus stop a bawl seh the sun hot

Dem eva guh tru dat? (laugh) hear mi nuh! Unite, live

BUSY!