Crack Baby

[Verse 1] When I was young, I knew this kid And his life was always madness His mum was on them crack rocks When he was young, his Dad left Kids would call him 'have-not' And worse, I bet you can guess Scummy, tramp, jack-pot His mum's still at the crack spot He's hungry and he's hacked off There's blood all down his tracktop Them bullies caught him slipping He curls up when they're kicking Punching, biting, spitting Now there's phones out with the cams on He dies some more inside Then he cries when he gets stamped on It's damn wrong Any part of him that was man's gone They finally knocked him out, he saw a light and thought he'd found God Only then to wake, right back inside this town, lost Cold but he don't care much, his only friend was Jack Frost His skinny little frame aches There's cuts upon his grazed face Trying to find a safe way home, that may be long He looks above and screams "Why'd you bring this hell on me?" At night I try and sleep but can't; I hear this song [Hook] I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard Well every day the problem seems to multiply And everybody's keeping busy getting by Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry It's just my city's lullaby [Verse 2] Years pass and he was chilling On this park bench spitting Freestyling to himself About his life, that it was hell When this crazy local villain Sat down and told him "Listen I've seen how hard your life has been, I think it's time I helped If you like, you'll work for me, the boys will welcome you as well If you've got beef then we've got beef, we'll ride on them with shells You never deserved the cards you got Here's your chance to passed them off Take a gamble, cast the rod It's time you showed this world" Says "Yeah man, fuck it I might as well be thugging This life has gave me nothing" Can feel inside himself, the accumulated hatred Was soon replacing basic Human moods a face with A past and you can tell But it's all about his future now Olders got him moving round Running guns, moving grams Flick-knife on his belt He's dying to use his blade though For years you made him scapegoat Now take note, you try him now, you're getting straight poked Oh well [Hook] I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard Well every day the problem seems to multiply And everybody's keeping busy getting by Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry It's just my city's lullaby [Verse 3] He's the man now, stand down He's shotting up this mad town Taxing other shotters with yoggers and his mad pals I called him Sonic, wherever he went there was always tales Of clarat and vomit, I think he's trying to even the scale He feels euphoric, a hoodrat that was beaten down Ironically giving the beatings now It's all evened out, a child that was screaming out Is a man with an evil scowl Oh shit! What's this? Someone that he's seen in town Used to punch him around (ho') Now he's reaching around (yo') And his heater is out so Now he's blasting rounds And his target's down Like Warren in Barking town And he's laughing proud His heart is drowned Nobody can save him now He's a monster made by man, Mary Shelly ain't around So this ain't no act of fiction When I find these words and fix 'em To the page to make you see where this child went off the rails I'm done now [Hook] I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard Well every day the problem seems to multiply And everybody's keeping busy getting by Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry It's just my city's lullaby