Youth, watch how you walk on the roads
Watch how you talk on the roads
Dem there youth nah like how you do 
Dem nah like you

Please tek your time
Before you hurt
Before you splirt
The roads full of dirt

Youth, please tek your time
The roads them cold
So you know where you go
Dem want tek your dough

Youth, please tek your time
Ca' they don't want see you strive
Ca' them want tek your tings
So mind youth
Please tek your time... and go

Don't watch them no
So dem bad-mind yo
Youth, please tek your time

Youth, mind where you walk pon road
Ca' dem boy want fi shoot you
Bad-mind, jealousy a kill dem
So dem boy there want fi [bad word] you

They don't like the way you go and making all that paper
Them there boy a hater (2X)

You haffi open up your eyes and see where [bad word] from
Ca' dem boy there
They don't want to see you living long
So you haffi be strong

Youth, please tek your time
Before you hurt
Before you splirt
The roads full of dirt

Youth, please tek your time
Ca' they don't want see you strive
Ca' them want tek your ting
So mind youth
Please tek your time... and go

Don't watch them no
So dem bad-mind yo
Youth, please tek your time

Tek your time
Keep watching where you step
Ca' prey dem a prey
They want take everything you get

Them nah like you, them hate
Them would love fi [bad word] your neck
Just because your making money
Them nah want fi show respect

No... we no care bout them
No... and we nah watch them
No... dem nah boy nah like we
Ca' right now is money I see

Youth, please tek your time
Before you hur,
Before you splirt
The roads full of dirt

Youth, please tek your time
The roads them cold
So you know where you go
Dem want tek your dough

Youth, please tek your time
Ca' they don't want see you strive
Ca' them want tek your tings
So mind youth
Please tek your time... and go

Don't watch them no
So dem bad-mind yo
Youth, please tek your time

Youth, please tek your time
Before you hurt
Before you splirt
The roads full of dirt

Youth please tek your time
The roads them cold
So you know where you go
Dem want tek your dough

Youth, please tek your time
Ca' they don't want see you strive
Ca' them want tek your tings
So mind youth
Please tek your time... and go

Don't watch them no
So dem bad-mind yo
Youth, please tek your time