I swear it was like around the times when things were going well

And we had to pack guns and then Asher went jail, and then a

Couple months down the line

Me and Morgz thinkin' 'bout my **** doin' mad time in he's mum's

Then I hugged her, I dunno how it came around like this

Then she looked and said, "Look after the album, Swiss

And make sure that you learn something out of this"

And the thought of it makes me wanna (Cry)

That's her only son

Take away a boy from his mother, that's a lonely mum

Protect yourself with a loaded gun

Just one of the rules, and Asher weren't the only one, so

For the fact that it's nothing fun

When a ****'s tryna put six in your gut and run

I don't wanna be another bum

There's a million other **** like me in another slum

But look at what the summer done

Couple shoot-outs, **** dead over something dumb

And light-skin Simon from Surrey Lane

Fell down the track, body got severed by the train

Come on, dawg, I ain't forgettin' Wayne

Died '97, but I still see him in my brain

All the pain and the memories, **** in cemeteries

We lost pride, though I pour a little Hennessy, man

And we bring back them if we can

I shed tears from my eyes with the pen in my hand

I'm just tryna stay alive, can't tell if I can

And these **** wanna put a shell in my man

Damn

Yeah, sometimes I just wanna cry

I don't wanna live, yeah, sometimes I just wanna die

Well, what am I? Can't act like i'm not alive

Got a whole family to look after

So I got to try and not

Even though granny's in her last years

Gotta stay strong, fuck, hanging at the glass stairs

Times movin' fast, I don't wanna be the last here

Hangin' round my house, sittin' in the armchair like

Like does the lord half care?

They're just eatin' bread while everybody starves there

Look what happened to the motherland

They don't wanna see blacks the same as another man

And just 'cause our skin's different colour and

I don't change colour but they call me a coloured man

There's only so much you can take in

When your head's nappy with the shade of a slave's skin

The ghetto spent most of my days in

I ain't in prison, but I fee like I'm caged in

And I don't even need a chorus

This the type of number that I dedicate to Stephen Lawrence

And it's gutter down here

Everybody's broke, we just need money down here, yeah

No, we don't wanna work for them

'Cause we wouldn't be broke here if it weren't for them

No, yeah, there's a lot of work to begin here

But first I gotta start most of my work within Pierre, yeah

'Cause right now I'm an addict for weed

It's so deep, I don't even know what happened to me

I gave my life to the streets for the masses to see

My family didn't like it when I hang around with G

My brother went jail, I was tryna bang out a key

Ran out of weed, and even fall flat on my knees

Got off my face and fell right back on my knees

One of my friends offered crack to me, could you believe?

That could've been my downfall, but I didn't agree

If I could get most of these people just to listen to me

Don't let the streets get the best of you, take it from P

They don't want us makin' money

So the odds of us gettin' out the ghettos

Like none of are free

Release me from these mental chains now, I just wanna be free

I just (Cry) inside every time that I hear

Another's died, I just act like I don't even care, for real

'Cause I don't wanna kill my own

But if **** come for me, I ain't tryna be alone, blow

Whatever will happens, it gets done

And it's gonna take more than the mothers against guns

'Cause last year they said they was gonna direct funds

When it comes down to it, the government gets thumb on us

They were supposed to give a few mil' last time

I heard something, they ain't done it yet still

They should put a ban on every gun that's real

They're lookin' for murderers and they're the ones that kill

Who gave theses clowns the authority to teach and knowledge me?

I don't care about his philosophy

All these fake fantasies just suffer me

I don't want this on my conscience, please get off of me

'Cause they don't want me to know where I'm comin' from

If they did then I would know where I'm goin' down

I need some real answers, they ain't showin' one

Why do you think my heart's so cold and I'm goin' numb?

'Cause we don't care no more, it's past hurt

I don't wanna shed tears no more

Ready to die for the cause, I don't fear no war

This is how I'm livin' till I ain't here no more

That's the way I'm gonna die, I don't fear no law

When they tell me lies, I don't wanna hear no more

I'm ready to stand up, I don't stare no more

Till everything that I'm against isn't here no more

So real