Lyric discussion by mysteryslugs 

Cover art for Trenchtown Rock lyrics by Bob Marley and the Wailers

I agree with you all, but I belive there is more to the song that makes you have a better appriciation for it. I think its about Marley reflecting on his time when his mother moved him and his family to Kingston in trench town after his dad died when he was 10. This is when and where he met and started playing music with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (aka Bunny Wailer) and later with Joe Higgs, a very ifluetial Rastafarian mentor and singer to Marley, and Peter McIntosh (Tosh). He is just singing about how when you are passionate about music nothing els matters, and how that was true in his life. Anyways, I wrote too much, but I thought it might be interesting to people who don't know a lot about Robert Nesta Marley's life.

Marley will never die, peace out.