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[00:14.100]I was out there serving by myself no workers
[00:17.790]If a man gives minors boodge
[00:20.010]That man deserves to get murdered
[00:21.810]We don't do them tings round here
[00:23.610]We don't rate those antics
[00:25.590]Cause a racket when I let them packs go
[00:27.270]I serve man like Sampras
[00:28.830]I weren't the worst yout on the ends
[00:30.630]There were man tryna murder their friends
[00:32.340]Man go jail off a phone tap come home
[00:34.170]And the same line start working again
[00:36.150]The worst yout never makes it
[00:37.710]I don't make money doin bait s**t
[00:39.510]I made p made it out and got a masters
[00:41.730]Cos I knew this country would hate it
[00:43.710]Yeh nah they're hating they're hating
[00:45.420]Thought I'd be in and out of the station
[00:47.400]Strong Black man in the making
[00:49.170]Hated by the place I was made in
[00:50.970]This country's finished but they're proud to be British
[00:53.910]Who they kidding
[00:54.900]Price of life is on the rise
[00:56.880]And this country's making a killing
[00:58.500]The stress of selling gets old
[01:00.180]Can't get a good nights sleep on road
[01:02.310]Tryna keep free and alive
[01:03.840]Sometimes gotta do 10 toes
[01:05.580]I saw friends go mad I saw friends smoke stones
[01:07.950]I saw friends leave home and just lose it
[01:09.870]Where they are man nobody knows
[01:11.760]This place unknown I'm so through with
[01:13.980]I miss Juice man I hope he's alive
[01:15.630]I saw him coping to survive
[01:17.520]Darren said he went missing one day
[01:19.170]Hopping the tears go unnoticed in my eyes
[01:21.030]I'm not supposed to cry It's all part and parcel
[01:23.400]Growing up in a place like this
[01:24.750]You either get stuck here or you pass through
[01:26.850]Coltsfoot road was hell for a dark yout
[01:28.860]Black bastard when did it start
[01:30.450]Calling me names run home and ask
[01:32.460]7 years old mum what's nigger
[01:34.020]Superman pants changing for my bath
[01:36.270]Wayne called me that outside his yard
[01:38.100]And his big brother Tom just laughed
[01:39.990]Yeh his big brother Tom just laughed
[01:41.310]But we live here too man don't they know that
[01:43.320]The names that they called us then we'd soon own that
[01:45.240]Labels they put on us we'd out grow that
[01:47.190]Mum said the best revenge is success
[01:49.110]So I guess I'm getting my own back
[01:50.790]Come a long way from asking
[01:52.110]To make a call then tell you your not getting your phone back
[01:54.450]Come a long way from snow in the summer
[01:56.130]But I still got a long way to go I know that
[01:57.990]I was suffering then still suffering now
[02:00.210]Scuffling then still scuffling now
[02:01.890]I saw my friend get stabbed late night summer
[02:03.810]Anxiety I still suffer with crowds
[02:05.340]From a place unknown why you still living there
[02:07.470]He killed prostitutes when I was living there
[02:09.300]Vulnerable girls like ducks they were sitting there
[02:11.130]In the space of a month 5 went missing there
[02:13.230]And I sold what they're risking life for
[02:14.610]I still have nightmares of things that I saw
[02:16.830]I was out in the cold turned away by friends
[02:18.780]That I wouldn't think twice to die for
[02:20.520]Big jay let me sleep in his spare room
[02:22.170]He passed away and I couldn't cry more
[02:24.300]Now the little girl that named this album
[02:25.770]Is the only thing I'd give my life for
[02:51.090]We live here