Hey Yo! Can't you see

Everybody wanna be

Crying to be

Dying to be

Trying to be

Can't you see?

You can't be me!

Ah! Lord-a-mercy, One time; for the crime; hey..niggaz got to pay the fine



A who? Coulda neva Mista Wanna be

Me A guh kill yuh free

Mek everybody see

A you? People seh dress up fi look like me

Me aguh done you too

and yuh friend mek three



A who? Coulda neva Mista War not me

A guh kill yuh free

Mek everybody see

A you? People seh dress up fi look like me

Me aguh done you too

and yuh friend mek three



Unu wanna be me!

Weh tek dem insect

True mi tek Spring Break, si dem a impress

Hear this likkle punk guh sing a battyman concept

Seh him hood Deanie, a deh suh mi object

And him guh pon Mirage, and guh dis-respect

bout dem box man a foreign dem nuh tek nuh bet yet

Tell dem if dem do dat World War woulda re-flex

Yuh lef' Clarendon and come drop ina wasp nest

with Guerilla warfare yuh caught mi interest

War mi start dat by reservation and request

To kill dis yah fool, to me dat is no stress

Murder dem fast just like a Federal Express

And mi run wild west



Ask dem a who?

Coulda neva Mista Wanna be

Me A guh kill yuh free

Mek everybody see

A you? People seh dress up fi look like me

Me aguh done you too

and yuh friend mek three



A who? Coulda neva Mista Wanna be

Me A guh kill dem free

Mek everybody see

A you? People seh dress up fi look like me

Me aguh done you too

and yuh friend mek three



Unu done know further

Talk fact not fiction, that's what yuh heard of

'Fore mi tell yuh seh mi hear yuh nyam fur burger

Yuh jus a realize right yah suh yuh get murder

A from yuh gal friend lips, mi hear dem word yah

Di likkle careless punk, weh dem call name Merva

Seh yuh dida guh dung and a sight observer

mek haste emerge yah



Hey yow

A who? Coulda neva Mista Wanna be

Me A guh kill yuh free

Mek everybody see

A you? People seh dress up fi look like me

Me aguh done you too

and yuh friend mek three



Unu grudging to be

Mista Wannabe

Everybody sight that you wanna be me

Go as far and plan fi tek all plastic surgery

Wah day yuh friend a seh him nah guh run and flee

Mi fix him ina Mirage, him run, him neva agree

Unu nuh hear bout me

Mi nuh want a cent fi kill yuh, mi will kill yuh fi free

Send yuh mumma di fee fi mek sure yuh bury

When gunshot tek yuh 96 degree

Unu fi guh a Spanglers corner or T.G

Unu nuh hear bout we?



I ask

A who? Coulda neva Mista Wanna be

Me A guh kill yuh free

Mek everybody see

A you? People seh dress up fi look like me

Me aguh done you too

and yuh friend mek three



A who? Coulda neva Mista Wanna be

Me A guh kill yuh free

Mek everybody see

A you? People seh dress up fi look like me

Me aguh done you too

and yuh friend mek three