[Intro - Justina Lee Brown & MCskill ThaPreacha]
We gotta listen up (yeah)
We gotta be ready for the call (MCskill ThaPreacha)
Everybody wants attention (A yo Justina word up?)
We wanna be heard
No one wants to be left aside (its what we talking about)
Every child has something special



[Verse One - MCskill ThaPreacha]
I knew a man, his name was Mr. William

He had two sons and a daughter and they were triplets

He really wanted his sons to be doctors

And the daughter, he wanted her to be a lawyer

Typical Nigerian man, he was a dreamer

Always thinking about society first and how to please them

A selfish father, he never listened to the kids

Never thought about their dreams and what they could achieve

The first son, he had talent to be an actor

The second was a football player, he was a master

The daughter was a painter, she painted pictures with ease

She was way ahead of her time, she was the perfect thing

Then came the time the ball player had opportunity to

Sign for a football club in Chicago and so

Mr William never allowed that happen

He said his son had to be a doctor, that's final

He killed a dream, this is the part that i begin

To tell the parents, You! always have a rethink

The kids are humans, gotta respect their feelings

Gotta be their angels right, not their demons

The next day, boy was found in his room

Lying helpless on the floor, overdosed on a drug

Mr William lost a son, never forgave himself

Now he depressed, his whole life has never been the same



[Chorus - Justina Lee Brown]
Listen up, listen up
Listen to the Kids, Listen to kids (yeah, yeah, yeah)

(ooh ooh ooh)

Listen up, listen up
Listen to the kids, Listen to the kids (yeah, yeah, yeah)

'cos everybody wants attention
Want to be heard
Want to feel special
'cos everybody needs attention
Want to be heard
Feel something special

So i say
Listen up, listen up
Listen to the kids, Listen to the kids (yeah, yeah, yeah)

Oooh

Listen up, listen up
Listen to the kids, Listen to the kids (yeah yeah yeah)



[Verse Two - MCskill ThaPreacha]
Mrs Anna was 32 and she was pretty cool

Everybody loved her attitude

She had a daughter named Jane, she was 11

Jane's daddy passed away when she was 7

She got married again by the time Jane was 9

Jane had a new daddy, everything was fine

Sad story, he was a pedophile

Started abusing Jane and threatened her not to tell her moms

But Jane couldn't keep that, she had to tell

Mrs Anna never believed her own daughter, what the hell?

Trust me, its a true story

Be responsible, pay attention and listen up to your kids stories

They get bullied at school, they get raped

They got bruises and scars and took it as their fate

One day, Anna came back from work early

Met her hubby doing her daughter behind the tele

She was screaming for help, struggling for her life

Anna couldn't move like corpse, she was all white

She grabbed the mug on the table and hit her hubby on the head

Just 20 seconds of bleeding, he was dead

Anna grabbed Jane, she wasn't breathing too well

She was tryna say something but shortly, she was dead

Mrs Anna lost her daughter to her nonchalance

She had to take her own life just to strike a balance



[Bridge - Justina Lee Brown]
Everybody needs attention (x3)
Oohhhh You gotta listen to the kids
Listen to the kids
Listen to the future



[Chorus - Justina Lee Brown]
Listen up, listen up
Listen to the Kids, Listen to kids (yeah, yeah, yeah)

(ooh ooh ooh)

Listen up, listen up
Listen to the kids, Listen to the kids (yeah, yeah, yeah)

'cos everybody wants attention
Want to be heard
Want to feel special
'cos everybody needs attention
Want to be heard
Feel something special

So i say
Listen up, listen up
Listen to the kids, Listen to the kids (yeah, yeah, yeah)

Oooh

Listen up, listen up
Listen to the kids, Listen to the kids (yeah yeah yeah)