Ras Cas - Barrel Baby Lyrics

Little Kwesi died
In the wee hours of this morning,
The neighbors heard the shots ring out from the abandoned house next door,
Ironic 'cuz,
His mom was,
Down here from foreign,
And she still can't understand what her son died for
See she went away, when he was just a kid
To the land of milk and honey, where the dreams are dreamt in gold
She said she wanted him to have it better than she did,
So just for him to taste the world, she'd sell her soul,
And give him all he could want,
But only material, only material
So he'd live his life on the hunt
Just to find something real, because life was so surreal, see
Every other month, he'd get a shipment, of
Toys and shoes and clothes, all the latest apparel
But Iʻm sorry to be so blunt Ma, but don't you know,
All he needed was Love, and yuh cyar,

Yuh cyar send Love in a barrel
You cyar send Love no, you cyar send love
Yuh Cyar send love in a barrel
Cyar send Love no, Cyar send Love no,
Cyar send Love...

See a house is not a home with no Love
So out the street he'd roam dreaming of
A day, when somebody would take him on
Because ever since he was born
They'd just give him all these things to try to keep him happy
And he never understood but he still felt so crappy,
But he had his own plan to be his own man
And only the guys in the gang coulda understand
So a different kind of barrel now became his closest friend
The one that fill people eyes when he points it at them
And didʻt you hear, Mama swear she had angel children,
But theyʻll have to take him on now, can't ignore him again
Fifteen years old, caught in the rush
Big bad and bold they just couldn't crush his ego
"Get rich or die tryin!"
Well he wasnt lyin.
So a bullet came down that same barrel and blew out his brain
Death was the only door through which he could escape these chains
Because he wasn't free, and the end wasn't even bitter sweet,
Just sour
Even though he thought this life in the street would give him some power
When it was all said and done, he was dead and gone and still,
All he was really looking for was Love,
But yuh cyar find Love no, Yuh cyar find Love no,
Yuh cyar find Love
Yuh cyar find Love in a barrel
Yuh cyar find Love no, Yuh cyar find Love no,
Yuh cyar find Love
Yuh cyar find Love in a barrel
Oh no,
Oh-oh

Said you give him all he could want,
Only material, only material,
Give him all he could want, all he could want.