Wyclef Jean - Next Generation Lyrics
[Wyclef]Hold on now, don't die now, be strong nowHe said, I was born a crack babyIn a plastic bag in the alleyRaised in a foster homeWith no mother to love and I never knew my papiBack in the days of Bobby McFerrinUsed to sing don't worry, be happyLord how can I be happyWhen I don't even know my own family tree Lord[Wyclef]We are the next generation, we ain't scared to dieThe only thing I fear is the after lifeCos I don't know what's there on the other sideBut I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try[Wyclef]Gang poppin' things, doing drive-by's and angersKids going to school putting fears in their teacherThe teacher let them know that it ain't all goodCos the gang was created to protect the neighborhood, nowAll you red now, all you blue nowAll you yellow now, follow me nowTo that place of righteousnessWhere the only thing that matters is your consciousness, he said[Wyclef]We are the next generation, we ain't scared to dieThe only thing I fear is the after lifeCos I don't know what's there on the other sideBut I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try[Wyclef]In my father's kingdom there are many mansionsAll the rooms are free, there is no tax collectionI can see Biggie, Tupac, Moses and AbrahamJason, the one and two's, jamming with the sun of man[Scarface]I've been kicked, I've been stabbedI've been shot, I've been ? by aPerson that I thought I trusted, where I liveIt's a war at the cribs, walk with a strapMyself cos I don't want nobody's son on my backMy mind playing tricks ?, to really ?Me out in five unless I take another hitI done seen the sun set on the other side of townNow I'm drifting in the darkness, Heaven hold me down? ? ? but I know I'm born dyingFeel the tears of the angels looking down on me cryingFor a lying ass but yo forgive us in a whileAnd I'm sorry, never let me forget that I'm your childWhile I'm locked up in this basement staring eye to eye with SatanIn this cold dark world with no patienceWe get plotted on by agents with talks of replacingThe Africans, Jamaicans and the Haitians in this next generation[Wyclef]We are the next generation, we ain't scared to dieThe only thing I fear is the after lifeCos I don't know what's there on the other sideBut I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try[Rah Digga]Whoa, we the next generation, look at what we facingThe kids raise themselves, all kind of temptationFlowers and candles decorating all the pavementsNo, the perpetrator ain't seeing no arrangementsNobody cares about the feelings of the poorMan they suffer while we spending eighty billion on a war, uhCutting school budgets, US stockmarket plummetsCondition's only worse and I wonder what become itMetal detectors replace music classesAngry little kids wanna beat their teacher's assesThe red and blue's, somebody gotta loseReality TV be reality for whoI don't question what the Lord found in meI just pass it on to folks with no boundariesGot a long road ahead of us, AIDS already gettin' usNow we got stars, how many will there be left of us[Wyclef]We are the next generation, we ain't scared to dieThe only thing I fear is the after lifeCos I don't know what's there on the other sideBut I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try 
