| Is that the choir that’s sounding?
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| Young King before crowning
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| I wake up with the gift of life in the morning-
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| How could I wake up frowning?
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| Don’t ask why I don’t take breaks
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| You never know say work haffi run
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| Everybody says that you should go clear-
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| But I ain’t goin' clear 'till I take care of Mum now wait
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| Lemmie tek time
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| You already know I do this for my family
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| But also mana doin' it for Grime
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| So can somebody tell me why when we’re in lab all our sounds watered down-
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| And they’re spun round flung? |
| after top roads till it’s knocked out?
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| So many stories, so many articles
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| It’s time we start sorting it out-
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| They said it will take 10 years for grime to be accepted and the ting finally
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| popped
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| Nowadays this tings' grime that ting’s grime it’s grime when did grime become
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| pop, but wait
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| Not tryina hate
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| Come a long way from the bottom, it’s true-
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| But this is grime music and culture
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| You don’t get to pick and choose
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| I’ss like one minute you’re a role model
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| Throw on a hoodie you’re a dangerous yout
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| Naw fam that’s dead
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| Give respect to the first man they made a culture for the whole nation
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| They boot down doors for us so Imma lick down doors for the next generation
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| S.O.S
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| Can somebody save our sound
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| Can we stop tryina let next man dictate something that we built from the ground
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| S.O.S
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| Cause you know mana still old school
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| ? |
| sound warrior come in like a Viking —
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| If I go down then I’ll go down fightin'
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| S.O.S
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| I can’t see it no more*
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| S.O.S
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| We need to restore*
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| I started spittin my bars on Pirate Radio sets, made me feel gassed
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| Took every oportunity and nothing for granted went all over the map-
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| I’m talkin' 16 doin' up late trips to MODE FM runnin' for the last train to the
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| bits
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| All just so I could spit my bars late nights thru the alleyway-
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| I coulda got shift like North
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| What you know about that rude boy what you about that?
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| I put my ends on the map and started a movement all from my council flat-
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| What you know about that?
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| Nah you don' know about that, nah you don’t know about jack
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| Your still there tryina run down deal-
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| I’m there with the pounds and penny just buildin' a stack, that’s facts
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| Still pay homage
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| To the real grime dons, no ediats-
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| Betta show love to the old school G’s
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| Rude boy nuh mek mi get serious
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| You can’t pick, and then choose
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| Try bread the ting we ain’t homies
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| ?We'll rhyme? |
| to music i’ss God’s gift
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| But come like they nuh know me
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| Talkin' back in double-oh-five
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| ? |
| no shutdown, shutdown, no* boy betta know I got the gun in my boxers
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| Think I bought you, truly
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| They neva kno seh a man’s unruly
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| S.O.S
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| Can somebody save our sound
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| Can we stop tryina let next man dictate something that we built from the ground
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| S.O.S
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| Cause you know mana still old school
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| ? |
| sound warrior come in like a Viking —
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| If I go down then I’ll go down fightin'
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| S.O.S
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| I can’t see it no more*
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| S.O.S
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| We need to restore*
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| S.O.S
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| S.O.S
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| S.O.S
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| S.O.S
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| S.O.S
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| S.O.S
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| Can somebody save our sound
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| Can we stop tryina let next man dictate something that we built from the ground
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| S.O.S
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| Cause you know mana still old school
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| ? |
| sound warrior come in like a Viking —
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| If I go down then I’ll go down fightin'
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| S.O.S |