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Devlin

Final Curtain

Release date: 1st October 2006

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"Final Curtain" is a track by Devlin, from the album Tales From The Crypt, released 1st October 2006. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Devlin

Devlin

Lyrics

Final Curtain

Yeah, it's Devilz.. Tales From The Crypt

Big up Deeperman, big up Wretch 32, big up Ghetts

OutTakers slash the Movement

Yeah, it's real life

Tales From The Crypt

[Hook - Devlin]

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

[Verse 1 - Devlin]

Say one day that I don't wake up and the Lord opens the gates up

Then I wanna know that I lived my life and my kids and wife

Grown up and leave the bits behind, yeah that's right I wanna move away

Smoke weed all day and let the music play

I've got bars that will leave you confused for days

And will I be here next year, who's to say?

Left school one year still I ain't got a job

Guess that makes me a bum now

I can't even look at my mum now

Gotta make money though somehow

Living in the streets where it's run down

Sell weed til the sun's down but I wanna give Mumsy summit to be proud of

Once you're in the hood it's pretty hard getting out of

A life of depression just leads to aggression

[Hook - Devlin]

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

[Verse 2 - Wretch 32]

I've got a son now so when I die I'll still be here

It's that real but I'm still prepared

I stack P's til I leave him scared but don't cry for me son, man

I'm your Earth, you're my Sun man

Kai, so together we make rain

I can't front like grief ain't pain

Huh, but be strong rep the surname

But by this time you should have had kids of your own and your kids should have grown

And you're sitting on chrome but that's if I play my part

And invest in the roads but you can't follow my footsteps

You gotta be that good Wretch, cause the road ain't easy

But when I do you'll be me but when it's time come see me

[Hook - Devlin]

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

[Verse 3 - Deeperman]

So when I move on, I wanna be remembered

I wanna have answered all the questions that needed answers

I wanna leave memories, for my friends and my family

So when I'm here I'll make the most of whats around me

Grimey streets and girls that won't go down on me

Back to the manor where I ain't got a pound on me

Don't make marks in the circles surrounding me

But I'm still here living alone, I'm not dead so I'm proving them wrong

I bring tears to your eyes with the bars that I use in my song

And only God knows the movement I'm on

So when I do die, don't cry for me

Roll up a big zute, take a draw and blow it to the sky for me

Reminise for a moment, let the weed circulate and then get high with me

[Hook - Devlin]

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

[Verse 4 - Ghetts]

25 years from now, I can't imagine what the future holds

But I refuse to be broke

Like, not enough plans too many hopes

Hopefully I'm healthy cause I usually smoke

How many more years can my body take, when I'm old will my body ache?

Only God knows

I don't wanna look back and be ashamed, wanna turn back time like that can be arranged

Some olders wanna do exactly the same so who's happy?

Lifes fast like a Ducatti but if you rally it's like getting new fanny

Hustle hard til  my last breath enough even if they think I'm doolally

My brains full of good memories, bad ones too but it could of been empty

I'll take care of my kids like a true daddy

[Hook - Devlin]

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

When the curtain comes across I wanna know that i've lived life

I don't wanna have no regrets and I hope that I've earned respect

Off my family and people around me

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Track details

From Tales From The Crypt

2006
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Tales From The Crypt
Tales From The Crypt
Devlin
Release year
2006
  1. —Final Curtain
  2. —Dealers
  3. —April Showers
  4. —Do This
  5. —Murder Music
  6. —Reality Is Sinister
  7. —Stakes Are Raised
  8. —Take Me Away
  9. —Tales From The Crypt
  10. —The Truth
  11. —Shot City Freestyle
  12. —Bad day
  13. —High Rise
  14. —Halloween Ressurection
  15. —Extra Extra (Wiley Diss)

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