I’m just tryna make mumzy proud Pops your on the journey with me so don’t feel left out I hate the idea of letting either one down Browner my skin the louder I shout Rap about it until I’m 6 feet underground And all I ever say is we’re all family now Lost a couple who I thought were locked for life Cuts through at the time so I keep certain people close in line Really flirt with the danger of losing life Remind myself the vision is my limelight Link jack on a cold night bill a zoot in the car up tiddseley Duck for a next set of headlights n drive off swiftly Leave love in Greece come back and my hearts all twitchy And I swear If I ain’t have this campaign to focus on I recon it’s more than likely I’ll have gone MIA Cos I CBA with the shit I get dealt with every day I really fear my fate We sell mirrors in the city of the blind Our cries ring out but fall silent time after time But our hearts remain fulfilled Despite the failures of our prime Some are only silenced when dead I move silent but deadly Set my sights on a knifes edge you’ll struggle to check for me I’m Trapped gifted but cursed I’d leave the west but their the ones who keep my feet to this earth Greatness since birth Yet it still hurts Frustration strolls in and gets a little too comfy Takes a sip of my drink taxes all energy from me Strips me down to a tee reducing my bliss to poverty In all honesty, I’d appreciate these mirrors shifting I’d be quids in soon dipping from making a living out of the kitchen Quit all the bitching and seek clearance from this life I’ve been living Leave the devil in my ear livid Chances will come and I’ll make peace with the paths that I’ve run Feel my way to the front, harness the spotlight and leave the microphone spun Tears they’ll turn from water to rum and the food on our table soon comes from my mothers son, yeah

Riddled with pain I’m riddled with pain All hopes lost on the shadow play dead grass dies on the side of the road dead grass dies on the side of the road last laughs die out when all happiness goes An obligatory silence proceeds to cross the road Affairs with defiance seem to lose all hope As I speak my mind I become the butt of all jokes Karma aint frightening it pushes me forward I’ll walk up to it’s front gate and start knocking its door Heavy as my heart the thud hits my feet on the floor As the door opens and asks ‘do ya want some more?’ I place my hands out in front of my face With my eyes closed bracing myself for a another quick taste Instead of a handful I’m graced with my fate So full of danger it rapidly chases me out of them gates I walk towards the shop looking for a little escape The yellow glow of the Lidl sign the only comfort I take I look down at the ground notice my feet on the pave In the cracks of the concrete dead grass displays my disdain Now I’ve come away here with way more than I bargained for With comfort taking the form of a human force Tricky as shit it’s ducks and dives my reaches leaves me lay out on the ground man I’m fucking speechless So out of reach is the peace that I seem to be craving That I lose myself trying to find out if it’s baiting Or if it’s possible that I may just find it As I walk down the street man, my minds in conflict I pass two guys who look at me so awkward and strangely Is it cos I’m waved or to my mind are they aggravating Try to reach out and explain my situation Results in a another failed attempt at a normal conversation Again and again and again and again I place myself in the picture but in this frame there’s just shame All things considered I place the blame at my name But this dead grass on the roadside still displays my disdain Yeah, this dead grass on the roadside still displays my disdain Riddled with pain Riddled with pain

Clasping short straws the feelings grow more broad As we walk I talk about my thoughts and the connection they have on my flaws My walls break down the further along we draw The line that gets crossed gets forgiven are we lost? Or is the path we’ve taken just getting crossed By mixed emotions ever flowing the pain in my chest is ever growing Loosens for a day then grabs my face and says there’s only one way you’re getting out of this Dig out the pits they say I’m getting out of breath The sun attacks my eyes quite gradually Sadly though I’m getting panicky Environments change the way I like to see The people around me the wind that surrounds we Who’s following who now are we taking the lead or just walking aimlessly these days it stays the same, cos I can't change your forced to fade away, can't face the day pretty sometimes when you realise, takes time and things will start to realign outside, clear skies Another thorn in a thorn bush getting trapped in the four walls look Guidance is lacking but in this backpack I’ve got some buds that’ll send us both packing Trapped in the maze of all this batting away our emotions Sometimes we need to let the ball hit us square in the face in order to set the flow in motion Ever growing like i mentioned before this feeling is ever flowing We’re getting tokens passed down to us with a message from the man who says let go it’s no fuss But who wants to lose control nowadays The culture of instant information traps us into this feeling That we’ve always gotta be connected Never stretched always directed By some greater being Is anyone else seeing what I’m seeing? We’re fastly losing sight and it’s frightening Not quite right and it’s rapidly tightening The grip on us they say is built on trust But whats trust if it’s one way I’ve got a feeling that we might have just turned down the wrong way

Listen, I’ll forget the times I lost feeling And regret the times I weren’t sleeping But looking back I was just learning My mind to escaping it just kept flirting Cos I missed my fucking family And I wish that I was there The day my mum gave birth to my brother Bro the baby boy answered all my prayers I won’t stop working till my brains dead Even if now, lighter are my paychecks I ain’t seen my old mates in fucking ages But boys to this process there’s many stages I’m worried about one of em and his bad habits The boys been playing in the snow without his jacket I’m losing breaths tryna tell my story But mate playing in the cold ain’t mandatory I’d lose love for a thousand nights If it meant my pages gained some light Cos this pressure Oh it’s bodying me And I dunno if I have the fight I look up to the men in my life And I wonder if they’re right Cos this path that life’s taking me down Bro I think it needs to be retyped I’ll find peace within my soul Or maybe hers, his or someone else Cos my stability don’t grow old It stays rooted, fixed below the belt There’s times where I just want silence From the madness that grows around But I ain’t talking silence deeply Just some calmness within myself I worry about what’ll happen If plan a don’t quite work out Cos although I assured my mother A plan b seeds refuse to sprout Do I work enough on a daily basis To secure a future for myself And the people who surround me Do I give justice to the word proud? Cos I can’t be asked worrying anymore About the stresses in my life A heart that’s not enough, never lucky when I decide to roll the dice A youth that maybe got wasted A subtle knife in a summers night And this ain’t even a third of it It’s time I looked down from this dizzy height Cos this sadness ain’t me at all And I remember back in year 8 A friend I used to know said I was never without a smile on my face And I’ll try to replicate that Even now that I have aged That young boys smiling face They’ll say it never changed