[00:00.000] 作词 : Dave/James Blake/Joe Reeves
[00:00.281] 作曲 : Dave/James Blake/Joe Reeves
[00:00.563][Intro]
[00:09.636](Knife crime is at a near record high
[00:11.884]With more than forty blade offenses every day in London)
[00:16.266](At a youth club in South London, not far from where someone was stabbed
[00:20.012]Less than twenty-four hours ago
[00:21.522]He outlined a direct link between violent crimes, social exclusion and austerity
[00:26.901]A study by City Hall found that London has seen an increase of 71%
[00:31.395]In victims of serious youth violence since 2012
[00:34.901]The Mayor says this is linked to an increase in poverty
[00:38.111]With the highest rates of violence taking place in come of the poorest boroughs)
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[00:42.401][Verse]
[00:42.649]Look, I bet them boys think I'm panickin'
[00:44.391]Check what my young Gs are carrying
[00:46.145]His blade same length as a javelin
[00:47.898]I don't know about B-ball or what's happenin'
[00:50.151]But know that it's fukked if he's travellin' and we see him
[00:52.655]I can't lie, I was depressed at phases
[00:54.897]I was 19 when the team nearly left him faceless
[00:57.392]Hopin' that we never left no traces
[00:59.645]You know when you're so damn tired in your house
[01:01.898]But you can't sleep cah you got pendin' cases
[01:04.147]I used to love temptin' fate, but now it's temptin' faces
[01:06.897]For half my career I was part of that
[01:09.150]My best friend got a burner and it's lookin' like an artifact
[01:12.149]Put it in your puffer or your Prada hat
[01:13.000]Like fukk panic, that's a heart attack
[01:15.641]
[01:20.150]Yeah, it's like life's so fukked in the time that were in
[01:22.897]We're fightin' the world and we're fightin' within
[01:25.645]Somali dad just ran away from a war
[01:27.897]Now his son's in a war, that's the cycle we're in
[01:30.149]I know n1ggas that didn't do time in the bin
[01:32.650]That have never had freedom of mind, are you sick?
[01:34.903]'Round here main way to provide for your kin
[01:37.151]Is in a flick blade, little push-bike, and a sim
[01:39.651]In London, a place where it's nicer to live
[01:42.152]Is only five minutes out from the guys on a strip
[01:44.394]Where man make yay work
[01:45.897]Heard he a soldier
[01:47.142]I know that n1gga hasn't got balls like Grey Worm
[01:49.643]As I grow older, change of perspective
[01:51.647]I gotta stay loyal to my girl, that's the trait she was blessed with
[01:54.146]Restaurants, raves with my bredrins
[01:56.000]Life's too short, so we gotta turn up
[01:58.898]
[01:59.145]Man talk on my ting for the 'Gram, it's intrusive
[02:01.398]I never really thought about taking a life
[02:03.651]Till I found out my ex-girl's dad is abusive
[02:05.902]I felt how I coulda be a man and not do sht?
[02:08.651]I'm on the way there now and I don't wanna lose it
[02:10.653]But fightin' her battles only hurtin' the girl
[02:13.405]How can I protect her from the world
[02:15.393]When I couldn't even protect her from myself?
[02:17.893]On my grandmother's grave, sh1t happens again
[02:19.899]I put a knife through a family friend
[02:21.902]Most the women that I know had sh1t happen to them
[02:24.155]So innocent 'til guilty ain't somethin' that I have to respect
[02:27.151]I think back to my youth and I was so ungrateful
[02:29.651]How many of our parents had dreams they abandoned
[02:31.894]So they could put food on the table
[02:34.392]Intelligent, worthy and able
[02:36.000]That's somebody's parent
[02:37.400]
[02:38.897]You know?
[02:39.905]
[02:40.399]And that affected the way that I see sh1t
[02:41.892]Nightclub toilet, you peed on the seat
[02:44.144]'Cause you don't know how it feels when your mum's gotta clean sh1t
[02:46.396]And her boss treats her like she don't ever mean sh1t
[02:48.895]And she gotta wait for the bus in the rain and it's freezin'
[02:51.148]And Miss said that you won't ever be sh1t
[02:53.399]And you don't wanna cry about dad but you need him
[02:55.651]I grew up so fukked, but I didn't even deep it
[02:58.152]I'm numb to the feelin' of grievin'
[03:00.143]And man gettin' birded
[03:01.398]African mums on the floor just screamin'
[03:03.653]It's mad cah I try so hard
[03:05.146]Death's gotta be easy cah life's so hard
[03:07.394]I was 12 wishin' that I was a white man, hard
[03:09.647]Cah if I was then they probably wouldn't life mans dargs
[03:12.147]I was dead broke, fam, I couldn't swipe man's card
[03:14.655]And time might pass, but I still gotta stay with it
[03:16.902]It wasn't his beef, but I see him try claimin' it
[03:19.399]That's why he caught a bullet with another man's name on it
[03:21.655]Now he can't do leg day or put strain on it
[03:24.152]Every time you hear me freestyle I put pain in it
[03:26.656]l used to wonder does God have favourites?
[03:29.156]Touch me it's dangerous
[03:30.397]I wouldn't play with it
[03:31.391]'Cause you can go sleep and have a different type of wake for it
[03:33.893]I miss my dargs, unstable
[03:35.647]You violate Chris, then rah I turn Chris Benoit
[03:38.400]Have him hit from far, nah
[03:40.151]Fill him up with bricks and glass, nah
[03:41.147]My young Gs will grip, then blast
[03:43.147]Have you tried in the street? Fukk findin' my feet
[03:45.400]I could ride, but I'm better when I'm ridin' a beat
[03:47.652]My emotions are peak, it ain't a sign of defeat or the weak
[03:50.401]I woulda ex3cute you,then cried in my sleep
[03:52.903]Dropped just two racks and told him buy the machine
[03:55.146]I'm Lebron in Miami, I provide for the heat
[03:57.392]God strike me if I'm lyin', I ain't cryin' in this beef
[03:59.645]Unless a tear's comin' tatted on the side of my cheek
[04:02.149]I provide for my peeps, the Lamb' white in the seats
[04:04.396]So I'm literally a wolf disguised in a sheep
[04:06.649]You have five figure dreams, I have five figure sleep
[04:09.149]Five hours more than enough time that I need
[04:11.650]Man want a fair fight, but I ain't on it when we see him
[04:13.902]Fukk honour, this revolver is onomatopoeic
[04:16.402]Let it stut-tut-tut-tut-tutter when you see him
[04:18.652]Free Scalez, free C and free my n1ggas till I see 'em
[04:21.141]I wouldn't wanna be him
[04:22.648]My old Gs roamin', I don't need a colosseum
[04:24.902]You see it?
[04:27.151]So I'm playin' it good
[04:28.147]Let hood politics stay in the hood
[04:29.000]Fukk the internet
[04:31.145]
[04:31.394]You see, this new generation, they're Insta' beefin'
[04:33.648]And I ain't into speakin'
[04:34.903]When I ducked down, I had him runnin' in the lifts
[04:37.403]Like he missed a meetin'
[04:38.647]There's no good reason to risk your freedom
[04:40.900]We're All Alone In This Together+The yutes dem snitchin' and b*****s sneakin'
[04:42.899]She don't wanna talk 'bout friendship
[04:45.400]She just wanna deal with the pipe like I'm fixin' leakin'
[04:47.391]And sleep with a legend like Chrissy Teigen
[04:50.142]Where I'm from the word "life" has a different meanin'
[04:52.148]Man smile in your face but them n1ggas schemin'
[04:54.892]Try involve me in a flaky dealin'
[04:57.144]Sistine Chapel, I'ma paint the ceilin'
[04:59.897]I been violated and I hate the feelin'
[05:02.145]That's why nowadays man hates the preachin'
[05:04.401]We smile in the visit cah we ain't defeated
[05:06.898]The Supreme Court's where my mates appealin'
[05:09.397]I can't breed that girl, that's torture
[05:11.153]South London, it's just slags on a corner
[05:13.652]And influencers tryna bag them a baller
[05:15.892]She a gold digger, I can tell from her aura
[05:18.643]The socials say princess, she a pauper
[05:20.647]When it's time for it, need more for my daughter
[05:23.397]Call me a talker
[05:24.401]But man are gettin' lined like lambs in a slaughter
[05:26.904]It's life-threatening, I can tell from the borer
[05:29.142]Cut through a n1gga like a knife through flora
[05:31.645]Feds got the guys on a case and they stalk us
[05:33.894]It's a conspiracy like tin foil hats and a new world order
[05:37.402]Touch me, you better have a life insurer
[05:39.643]Bloodthirsty, I got sharks in the water
[05:42.000]And, trust me, I know a killer well, no orca
[05:44.643]
[05:46.896]Have you ever seen a nightmare brought to life?
[05:49.148]Where I'm from you get cheffed on a normal night
[05:51.400]Man talk on my name but it's porkie pies
[05:53.649]We're All Alone In This Together+I really put it in a nigga like a porcupine
[05:56.150]Little bro wanna save for a 45
[05:58.400]Go board a flight
[06:00.000]There's more to life
[06:00.901]Youts on the M6 all the time
[06:03.403]We don't need TFL for a northern line
[06:05.643]All the best politicians been taught to lie
[06:07.893]Where do they buy c*****e when they're snorting whit
[06:10.150]Are their dealers safe or on the border line?
[06:12.895]It's ironic cah we don't know where to draw the line
[06:15.148]Man see Blue Story, they're mortified
[06:17.398]Man see Scarface and it's glorified
[06:19.900]'Cause when you're black everything gets scrutinised
[06:22.150]That why they call it Urban, it gets euphemised
[06:24.405]South London, man are gettin' euthanised
[06:27.151]I see a yout's demise, I wasn't too surprised
[06:29.145]He got soaked but his right hand scuba dived
[06:31.646]Don't die by a sword that you used to shine
[06:33.893]You can drown for your king, you don't know about Ophelia
[06:36.893]Cah we got iron, I don't know about anaemia
[06:39.144]I took the hard road, we don't know about the easier
[06:41.645]One bag of whores and  paraphernalia
[06:43.897]When ends gettin' sticky had a flicky with Amelia
[06:46.400]I mean Olivia
[06:47.646]This ain't Libya
[06:48.649]This ain't Syria
[06:49.648]You act sillier, we let it seep in your skin like Nivea
[06:52.893]Who wants to be a millionaire? I won it
[06:55.652]Never done a game show or trivia
[06:57.145]I done Wandsworth, Erlestoke visitor
[06:59.465]I done Spring Hil, Grendon
[07:00.961]Swinfen, Whitemoor
[07:01.965]Swaleside, Brixton visitor
[07:03.462]I done M-way trips, done sh1t that I wish I never did
[07:06.706]Becah I could have been a prisoner
[07:07.000]Is this the sh1t that appeals to the listeners?
[07:09.970]
[07:10.461]Road ain't no amazing life
[07:11.969]The ends full of snakes and jail's just a waste of time
[07:14.468]I tell my young Gs take your time
[07:16.000]Fukk jazz, you can really see a major nine
[07:18.213]
[07:18.713]Yo, I'm so ashamed of how I used to get figures
[07:20.962]Man sell you a dream like the road ting's lit
[07:22.968]And then he leave out the parts where you're burying your n1ggas
[07:25.216]We're All Alone In This Together+Or in jail wonderin' who's puttin' shit inside your missus
[07:27.718]We're All Alone In This Together+I'm so ****ing determined
[07:28.962]I was in intensive care when I was born
[07:31.212]Mummy fell down the stairs
[07:32.209]Whether I was gonna live or not was suttin uncertain
[07:33.962]I use the word "fell' with the commas inverted
[07:36.712]You see growin' up I had it far from perfect
[07:38.962]But nobody did, so I'm a normal person I gotta be grateful
[07:42.783]We all have demons and all see angels
[07:45.284]Or maybe it's me
[07:46.542]A black yout's more than a face on a screen
[07:48.282]A number on a laptop or name on a sheet
[07:50.783]We got stories to tell and got places to be
[07:53.000]From my heart that's the makin' of me
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[07:55.535][Outro]
[07:57.291]I was really about to lose
[07:58.532]I sat on my hands
[08:02.668]I struggled 'cause I didn't want to suffer again
[08:07.985]I just wanted, didn't wanna make my son upset
[08:18.981]I went to [?], they sent me back
[08:22.240]I tried so much, we have no strength
[08:26.732]I was in detention counsel for months, I didn't give up
[08:31.041]I was not even twenty when I left Africa
[08:34.298]I was determined to survive
[08:36.290]I was determined to survive
[08:38.041]I didn't have anybody, nobody was ready to help me
[08:42.941]You was six weeks old, this is when we left from Africa
[08:46.948]I was on the streets for three years
[08:52.444]Nobody let me eat, nobody in this nation
[08:56.437]I couldn't pay my rent, gettin' deported
[09:00.691]I didn't give up, I carried on everywhere