| I’m tired of working
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| Even when I smile I’m hurting
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| Is this what life’s about? |
| I don’t wanna die in search of
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| Finding out what really keeps the fire burning
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| My mother told me that Granny worked her whole life (paying off the mortgage)
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| Granny worked them cold nights (seething for her daughters)
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| With no man the slow grind had her slaving for the
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| Thought of her kids' kids (who else?), kids' kids
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| And this is what I witnessed as an infant
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| For instance, the hardest-working artist in England
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| Is anyone they classed as a juvenile delinquent (who am I?)
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| Son of Karen, grandson of Ruth
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| Imagine if my mother hadn’t met Lennox and had a yute
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| In fact, don’t imagine that, it’s with established you
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| It’s who? |
| And like you know hard work’s in my bloodline
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| But sometimes I ask my mum why she works two jobs
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| And works through lunchtime, and most the money’s gone
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| When the taxman comes by, well
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| (If this is what we’re living for
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| Then I don’t wanna live it all
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| How can money make me miserable?)
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| Can’t afford a car, let’s call it Lambo
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| Listening to Carter IV wishing I had mad dough
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| (Still I’m saying) God bless the people with a 9 to 5
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| Who still end up jobless to the people who define this life
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| It shouldn’t be stars, it should be commoners we idolise
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| For saying that a lot of stars were commoners like (I and I)
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| Ballers like (Ferdinand), boxers like (Iron Mike)
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| Singers like Adele, and every one of these feminist spitters have to pay homage
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| to (Dynamite)
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| But the question is when you get what you want, will you be satisfied?
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| Probably not, I bet you want the next thing that they advertise
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| Looking in the mirror to analyse the average guy
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| How can I be happy if I’m never content? |
| Well
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| (If this is what we’re living for
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| Then I don’t wanna live it all
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| How can money make me miserable?)
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| The fire burning
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| The fire burning
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| The fire burning
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| The fire burning
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| Finding out what really keeps the fire burning
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| Finding out what really keeps the fire burning |