
Date of issue: 11.06.2020
Record label: Quite Defiant
Song language: English
Brutalism |
Where I’m from, the streets are cold. |
You better wear a Parker |
1 in 5 of my partners didn’t know his father |
Young marauders swimming, couldn’t see the harbour |
We would get in beef needing more than a plaster |
I would hold a knife and say it was protection |
But I wanted more than anything to use it as a weapon |
Didn’t go to school, 50 Cent taught me lessons |
Excluded a hundred times before I started year seven |
Bredrin. |
Growing up was cold |
Seeing all my people locked up took it’s toll |
I watched Angel Heart and wanted to sell my soul |
And fell into a well of melancholy full of coal |
The Road to Redemption is a perilous one |
Summer threats made you wonder if September would come |
Never had Christmas dinner. |
No December’s were fun |
When I visited hell, I met the devil with guns and told him |
In the streets it’s cold. |
Colder than you know |
When the heat is on, you better not fold |
Growing up ain’t nice 'round here |
Always running for your life 'round here |
I’ve been jacked once. |
The second time was better, trust |
I was showing off my new era the bus |
These boys were asking me questions |
Wanting to know where I’m from |
When I name my estate, people usually run |
But they didn’t get the hint and followed me onto the street |
I didn’t know until I felt a fist connect above my cheek |
There were 8 of them and I was on my Js |
Fight or flight didn’t say to run away |
So I started scrapping out. |
Put a few of em down |
Grabbed my cap off the ground and ran into Camden Town |
The next day I see my friend and he asked what happened |
He saw my black eye and plotted a plan of action |
Told the olders from my area and staked out the square |
Knowing that the boys who tried to rob me cotched there |
We took their phones and they took a beating |
They were lucky to even leave breathing |
In the streets it’s cold. |
Colder than you know |
When the heat is on, you better not fold |
Growing up ain’t nice 'round here |
Always running for your life 'round here |
In the streets it’s cold. |
Colder than you know |
When the heat is on, you better not fold |
Growing up ain’t nice 'round here |
Always running for your life 'round here |
Better learn how to fight 'round here. |
Either that or hold a knife 'round here |
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