Track 2-Skepta

[ti:Castles] [ar:Skepta] [al:Blacklisted] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Track 2 - Skepta [00:16.09]As the days keep turning [00:20.03]As the world keeps burning [00:27.71]As my soul keeps learning [00:38.52]Tears fall from the castles around my heart [00:41.96]My teacher told me I'm a side man I told her to remember me [00:45.40]Now they wanna email me asking if I can talk to the kids in assembly [00:48.84]Now man are selling out Wembley [00:50.65]Now man are twenty first century [00:52.28]Statistics say I should be dead or in jail [00:53.96]But sh*t ain't the way that it's meant to be [00:56.28]Breaking the cycle [00:57.09]They wish I was trapped in the system [00:58.90]A 6 foot tall black guy like me [01:00.78]That would've been a rap in an instant [01:02.40]That's why I gotta speak my mind I'mma say how it is and I never say sorry [01:05.90]Keep quiet like Winston and Tracy fam - over my dead body [01:11.97] [01:36.78]Too much TV too many newspapers got a ni**a thinking evil [01:40.21]Got me thinking I'm looking at my enemy when I'm looking at my own people [01:43.53]Notice when a white man looks at my watch I think he's trying to pay me a compliment [01:47.34]When a black man looks at my watch I think he's trying to knock my confidence (Mad) [01:50.90]I was in Amsterdam smoking blue cheese and I had an epiphany [01:53.97]All these negative preconceptions just bring more negativity [01:57.27]Instead of investing in new businesses they buy new artillery [02:01.03]Everybody in the hood wants to spray a 16 and I don't mean lyrically [02:04.91]Underdog psychosis spreading around in the hood like flu [02:07.40]Security guards follow me around like I ain't got ￡2 to pay for my juice [02:10.97]Now all this b******t got me smoking this stupid zoot [02:14.34]Tell Boris he's lucky that I made it rapping or I would've been looting too [02:18.22]Niggas ain't got GCSEs still don't wanna work for a minimum wage [02:21.91]These days man will murder a man for a box of grade [02:24.71]Every time the 38 barrel spins Martin Luther turns in the grave [02:28.15]It's real life no computer game we're living in the streets of rage [02:33.65] [03:03.34]