Lyrics Live Like The Other Half Do - London Posse, Rodney P

Live Like The Other Half Do

All I want to do
Is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw
All I wanna do is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw
I’m like
A newspaper
Known as a daily
Roughneck
And I’m the prime suspect
When I’m in the vicinity
Of a robbery
Radders rock up and bother me
I said, «it wasn’t me.»
They said, «well, it must have been your brother
But one nigga looks as good as any other
So you’re nicked.»
They roughed me up and cuffed me
And they stuffed me in a patrol car
So far they’ve called me every name in the book
Except 'crook'
'cause they know I never took nish
And now you’re asking me why
Yoot want fi jook police up
I remember one time
Me and my piece Janette
Were shopping up Kings Road
When two police cadets
Jumped out of the cavalry
And tried to say I done a job in Battersea
I said, 'look I’m a chatter, see
And I’m shopping with my girl, fool
But half an hour later I was marking up a cell wall
Another day of racist police brutality
And this reality is changed my personality
So thanks a lot
But I’ll stick to being a gangster what
Robs a couple banks and whatever a fool’s got ??
All I wanna do is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw
All I wanna do is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw
I’m like a hydro
When I’m jacking a brae
Could be a taxman, take a boy’s money away
Leave 'em stranded and branded a big tip
Even paro any journo why I picked him
The situation I’m placed in makes this the job
Couldn’t get a real one so I guess I had to rob
To make a living, mate
To go out on a date with my girl
Or take her to a bar
To have some money in my pocket or buy my car
Bills they a piling want to eat with respect
But I’m not in the state of mind to say 'sorry'
Look like the opinions of the city
I walk the shadows like a slasher
Don’t say nothing, not a word or I’ll smash ya
It’s like try and be aware each time I catch ya
22 or Rita or ???
I ain’t a brave so you know that I ain’t Hawkwind
With the full time
I ain’t doing a bird
For a small crime
'cause I don’t drop it like that
Get the bucket, get the bally, and jump in the back
Of the truck
Now if the bag is our gun, look up
All I wanna do is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw
All I wanna do is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw
Why do I do crime?
How else am I to get garms?
From the man that’s out of work
That’s how you get armed robbers
Terrorising up the area
Nuff man pay by doing a bank raid
In a fake beard and tash
Walk in the leader flash
45 pistol
Insists all the cash is handed over
And then I drove away
Dumped the motor in the alley
Then I dallied round Sally’s yard
Life is hard, it ain’t no bed of roses
I sting a lemon brae
Who tries to come and close this dog ??
And when you’re sleeping
I creep in your yard
And distress your house
Get out the back garden
I rip off chains
And dip off trains to make a change
But I think it’s strange
While they rip us off with the poll tax
No blacks should have to pay that
Where did they teef the crown jewels from?
The whole world’s being ruled by criminals
So show me some rich-off-crimes and I’ll sting 'em all
I’ll stick to crime
So stuff your nine-to-five
I’ll stick to crime
Cause I’ve got to survive and …
All I wanna do is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw
All I wanna do is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw
When I was fourteen
I saw this brae get jacked
And then the raddy came
And had my arm behind my back
And my face in the dirt
They said 'you're nicked'
Took me to the station
And I sure got kicked
When I was sixteen
I left my school to find a job
Worked for about a week
And then got sacked by this slob
For smacking a brae
Happy when I get my time
Lick him in the head with a petrol can
I got a boulder on my shoulder, not a chip
I needed a trade so I learned how to dip
Jacked and terrorised
Could have been an MP
But never specialised
Inequality!
For the authority
Integrating race is a priority
Safe for majority
While the minority:
Screw!
'Cause they were integrated?
Ain’t true!
Think I wear a blinker?
Or I ain’t a thinker?
True I living out the ghetto
Let me ask the question: do you do better than
I rob for a living?
But does that make you the better man?
All I wanna do is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw
All I wanna do is live like the other half do
Instead of sitting at home and screw