| Oi, oi, oi
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| Sometimes I look down, sometimes I look up, oi
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| Sometimes I look down, sometimes I look up
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| Oi, that’s it, oi, oi
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| I’m a fake, I don’t live the streets
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| But there’s only so many hours in a day
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| And I use 'em to make beats, oi
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| In the studio, immersed in, rehearsing my technique
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| I live loops, sleep snares and breathe beats
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| Then sit through, keep the best there and only leave to eat
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| Shut the door, pen and re-record the vocal just once more
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| And now you know why these walls are the only walls I ever saw
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| Call me The Quick Draw McGraw Show
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| But unlodge your cord, yeah, oi
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| Kind of like a street score, though not the genuine article
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| More facts packed in a soundtrack to the acting
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| In a film and I’m the lead
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| Believe me, in the tragedy scene, a tear ran down my cheeks
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| So cue the fairytale finale
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| Listen to the dialogue, but not too deep
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| Soak up the feeling, but don’t quote me, please
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| Incidentally, don’t worry about continuity
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| The person we hired to do that was relieved of their duties
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| Also, in the first scene, my jeans are green
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| But then they change mysteriously to cream
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| Again, bad continuity, but I still mean what I mean
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| I wear Nike a lot, my hoodie’s a tight Schott
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| But does my life sound as interesting as a fight in a chip shop?
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| I think not, the hype’s not to be believed
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| I ain’t the archetypal street geez
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| But I am right on being a beat junkie, oi
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| I gave up the fight for an easy life a long time ago
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| When the last bird dumped me
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| Buy me, get one studio free
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| I use words for effect to illustrate passion
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| The themes ring fact and specifics are usually fiction, oi, oi
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| I probably couldn’t tell you half of what
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| «Has It Come To This» means
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| I was simply setting a scene of concrete, not sky and green trees
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| I still hold the same hundred-feet-high dreams
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| But a lot of things scare me, though
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| I think I read somewhere recently that fear is a useless feeling
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| Because I can’t run to where I’m heading
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| Without running from where I was, it’s all because
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| Where I’m from is not the issue, this is my imagination
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| I don’t sing the blues or feel fever
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| Which, by definition, ain’t spoken truth either
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| It floats around places I’ve never even been to
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| So don’t lean toward the door at four
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| Just as the dance floor gets raw
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| Some of the things this tour makes out I’d done, been or did
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| Wasn’t me, I weren’t the one, I’d only seen it
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| I was always too zoned out on drum machine shit
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| To worry about the day-to-day out in the dosh pit, oi, oi
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| Flip the 12-inch, this is the original mix, called
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| «Maybe My Sarcastic Brick Twist Daunting Will Be My Downfall», oi
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| Suddenly I’m defined by my lyrical
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| So I apologise for being so self-obsessed on this tune as
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| Let’s get back to the story, soon as
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| The Streets, the score
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| Tell me what you think it is, 'cause I don’t know anymore |