You want to be a bad boy? You don't want to listen anybody, you want to have your own rules, but then the melody stuck on me - 'Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when life comes for you?' - so after awhile, another couple months, I went back again and I changed the lyric to 'when they come for you,' which is everything. Bad boys, bad boys whatcha want Whatcha gonna do when sherrif John Brown come for you tell me whatcha gonna do. Bad boys, bad boys Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do When they come for you. Looking at him, the song just came to me. Bad boys Whatcha want, watcha want Whatcha gonna do When sheriff john brown come for you Tell me Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do. Life has a way after a while to teach certain things that you have to learn for yourself but you have to take the lead from your parents, you know?' But I saw the rebelliousness coming. I want to buy a car, they don't want me to drive it.' I'm saying to him, 'You have to understand, there are rules and regulations. He would say, 'I want to go outside and play and they don't want me to play. When I would visit him and just talk to him, he would get mad for nothing. He didn't quite get his independence from his mom and his dad, and his mom and dad were hardworking people.

IAN LEWIS: The song was written about a teenage young man that I met a long time ago in Jamaica, and he was changing from this nice, young schoolboy into what he thought to be a man.

Bad boys bad boys what you gonna do