Track 2 - Skepta

As the days keep turning

As the world keeps burning

As my soul keeps learning

Tears fall from the castles around my heart

My teacher told me I’m a side man, I told her to remember me

Now they wanna email me, asking if I can talk to the kids in assembly

Now man are selling out Wembley

Now man are twenty first century

Statistics say I should be dead or in jail

But shit ain’t the way that it’s meant to be

Breaking the cycle

They wish I was trapped in the system

A 6 foot tall black guy like me

That would’ve been a wrap in an instant

That’s why I gotta speak my mind, I’mma say how it is and I never say sorry

Keep my mouth shut like Winston and Tracy fam — over my dead body

As the days keep turning

As the world keeps burning

As my soul keeps learning

Tears fall from the castles around my heart

As the days keep turning

As the world keeps burning

As my soul keeps learning

Tears fall from the castles around my heart

Too much TV, too many newspapers got a nigga thinking evil

Got me thinking I’m looking at my enemy when I’m looking at my own people

Notice when a white man looks at my watch I think he’s trying to pay me a

compliment

When a black man looks at my watch I think he’s trying to knock my confidence

(mad)

I was in Amsterdam smoking blue cheese and I had an epiphany

All these negative preconceptions just bring more negativity

Instead of investing in new businesses they buy new artillery

Everybody in the hood wants to spray a 16 and I don’t mean lyrically

Underdog psychosis spreading around in the hood like flu

Security guards follow me around like I ain’t got £2 to pay for my juice

Now all this bullshit got me smoking this stupid zoot

Tell Boris he’s lucky that I made it rapping or I would’ve been looting too

Niggas ain’t got GCSEs still don’t wanna work for a minimum wage

These days man will murder a man for a box of grade

Every time the .38 barrel spins Martin Luther turns in the grave

It’s real life, no computer game, we’re living in the streets of rage

As the days keep turning

As the world keeps burning

As my soul keeps learning

Tears fall from the castles around my heart