Collapso

Hope and aspiration
ev'ry one got some,
grief and consolation
-all that gonna come.

White boy in the market
kiss my brother John;
black girls in the doorway
reputation gone.

Chorus
Someone take a lover,
lose another friend,
someone hurt another,
calypso never end.

Cause for celebration
time to have some fun;
trial and tribulation
come to ev'ry one.

Knife boy in the schoolyard -
he some mother's son -
bloodstain in the gutter,
someone get a gun.

Chorus

Pain and retribution
put this boy away,
my girl get compassion;
someone got to pay.

Some boy kiss my woman
- that jus' cannot be -
when I leave this prison,
he better look for me.

Chorus.