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Fire Burning by Ghetts

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Ghetts

Fire Burning

Release date: 9th March 2014

From Rebel With a Cause
Track 14
3:54
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About This Track

'Fire Burning' by Ghetts is a 2014 Hip-Hop/Rap track from the album 'Rebel With a Cause'. Its lyrics speak in weary, self-questioning terms about labour, pain, and the feeling that life is being spent chasing something intangible. The narrator links that strain to family memory, with references to a mother’s advice and a grandmother who “worked her whole life”, as well as to hardship and wrongdoing committed to get by. The refrain-like concern is what keeps going, and what it is worth to keep the fire burning, even when optimism turns sour.

"Fire Burning" is a track by Ghetts, from the album Rebel With a Cause, released 9th March 2014. The track is 3:54 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Ghetts.

About the Artist

Ghetts

Ghetts

Lyrics

Fire Burning

I'm tired of working
Even when I smile, I'm hurting
Is this what life's about?
I don't wanna die in search of
Finding out what really keeps the fire burning

My mother told me that
Granny worked her whole life (paying off the mortgage)
Granny worked them cold nights (stealing for her daughters)
With no man, and feed a slow grind
And a sleeping for the thought of her kids' kids (who else?)
Kids' kids
And this is what I witnessed as an infant
For instance, the hardest working artist in England
Is him they one day classed as a juvenile delinquent (poor man)
Son of Karen, grandson of Ruth
Imagine if my mother hadn't met Lennox and had a yout
In fact, don't imagine that it's with established who
It's who
And now you know hard work's in my bloodline
But sometimes I ask my mum why she works two jobs
And works through lunchtime
And most the money's gone when the taxman comes by
Well

If this is what we're living for
Then I don't wanna live at all
How can money make me miserable?

I'm tired of working
Even when I smile, I'm hurting
Is this what life's about?
I don't wanna die in search of
Finding out what really keeps the fire burning

Can't afford a car that's called a Lambo
Listening to Carter IV wishing I had mad dough (still I'm saying)
God bless the people with a nine-to-five
Who still end up jobless, they're the people who define as life
It shouldn't be stars, it should be commoners we idolise
But saying that, a lot of stars were commoners like (InI)
Ballers like (Ferdinand)
Boxers like (Iron Mike)
Singers like Adele
And every one of these feminist spitters
Have to pay homage to (Dynamite)
But the question is when you get what
You want, would you be satisfied?
Probably not, I bet you want the next thing that they advertise
Looking in the mirror to analyse the average guy
How can I be happy if I'm never content?
Well

If this is what we're living for
Then I don't wanna live at all
How can money make me miserable?

I'm tired of working (I'm tired of working)
Even when I smile, I'm hurting
Is this what life's about?
I don't wanna die in search of (I don't wanna die in search of)
Finding out what really keeps the fire burning

(The fire burning, the fire burning)
Long days (the fire burning)
Even longer nights (the fire burning)
(The fire burning, fire burning)
We have different things that keep us going
But one thing's for sure
Stopping ain't an option
I call that drive
Finding out what really keeps the fire burning
Finding out what really keeps the fire burning

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Track details

From Rebel With a Cause

3:542014
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Album
Rebel With a Cause
Rebel With a Cause
Ghetts
9th March 2014
Track number
14
Release year
2014
  1. 1Intro
    4:17
  2. 2Born & Raised
    3:08
  3. 3Rude Boy
    3:14
  4. 4Rebel
    4:02

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