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Ghetts

System

Release date: 31st December 2011

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"System" is a track by Ghetts, from the album Momentum, released 31st December 2011. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Ghetts.

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System

[Intro: Whoo Kid]

DJ Unique

Whoo Kid

[Verse 1: Ghetts]

They know my name and got my fingerprints

They know my face and even knows where my misses lives

And once upon my time they tracked my phone blud

So, now I gotta change my number weekly, I ain't risking it

My predicament ain't no [?]

Which means life ain't sweet, but it's liquorice

Blackness, anywhere when it [?]

And that's just the half of it

Watch how dark it gets

My nigga Badness, just shell down Bowser

Now I'm in the castle with my twelve out the white light

You never heard the bell when I was pressing

Because I ain't never heard the word "help" sound louder

You think I'm just another jail bound stranger?

Shut down the system, melt down alpha

You see the Devil, it's the hell town councillor

Nah, it's the hell town [?]

[Chorus: Badness]

Not get caught in within the system

Dutty Babylon fi bill the big ting

Look how much youts them kill around here

Me and Ghetts, we're gon' be detonate a nuclear

Bomb a track if people are in my chair

And then I will be out with no fear

When it all goes down, convicted for a murder charge

Then my people get twenty, forty years

[Verse 2: Ghetts]

I got niggas in the bin doing life

Some have even told me they've considered suicide

Whenever I speak to them, I say "are you alright?"

But that's a very silly question to a person doing time

Well he asked me what the road's saying, "what you saying?"

I say I'm still out there, darg

Just loads of men, you ain't missing nothing fam

Same old, same old, same niggas on the main road

And jakes know my face so I law low

Plain clothes officers

Thinking they're anonymous

I can see them from afar and I don't need binoculars

I ain't trying to get involved in any sort of drama

Why? Been there, done that, gave him a double [?]

I ain't going jail unless I'm visiting my mates there

I just finished probation after eight years

Yeah, they told me I should take care

But really what they think is I'll be back so I should stay there

[Verse 3: Badness]

All them can't really kill

Belly hungry, I will want some food

Tell me, people, what you gonna do?

When in real [?] from school

Dealing drugs and money if I have to

So tell me, why you trying to stop the ghetto youts for?

Don't you see that you're ruining the future?

Don't you know all about bunch of these stars?

But I do know that you ain't [?]

[Chorus: Badness]

Not get caught in within the system

Dutty Babylon fi bill the big ting

Look how much youts them kill around here

Me and Ghetts, we're gon' be detonate a nuclear

Bomb a track if people are in my chair

And then I will be out with no fear

When it all goes down, convicted for a murder charge

Then my people get twenty, forty years

[Verse 4: Ghetts]

You want something done? You gotta do it yourself

You want another income? I'm afraid myself

You think it's people like me and you who ruin the world?

But what we do, the government are doing as well

Just on a much bigger scale

It's a scam, it's a scam

Revelations, this has always been the plan

Segregation, separation

Nowadays, the colour of your skin is in your bank

So, now I'm trying to get what separates the rich from the poor

Kicking the door and letting more on my own kind

And I'm educated, so, I'm increasing what I have

Police don't like me and I know why

When my cousin's back in yard, ask him 'bout England

I tell him, it's lie everywhere else in the world

Go ahead, name a country without a corrupt system

I encounter twelve, and you fell, well

[Chorus: Badness]

Not get caught in within the system

Dutty Babylon fi bill the big ting

Look how much youts them kill around here

Me and Ghetts, we're gon' be detonate a nuclear

Bomb a track if people are in my chair

And then I will be out with no fear

When it all goes down, convicted for a murder charge

Then my people get twenty, forty years

Not get caught in within the system

Dutty Babylon fi bill the big ting

Look how much youts them kill around here

Me and Ghetts, we're gon' be detonate a nuclear

Bomb a track if people are in my chair

And then I will be out with no fear

When it all goes down, convicted for a murder charge

Then my people get twenty, forty years

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Track details

From Momentum

2011
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Momentum
Momentum
Ghetts
Release year
2011
  1. —I'm a boss
  2. —Insight
  3. —In a Zone
  4. —3style
  5. —Karma (Momentum)
  6. —No comment
  7. —Red Pill
  8. —System
  9. —Venomous Tongue
  10. —Story of the Pauper
  11. —Roof off
  12. —Not Lose
  13. —Girl at home
  14. —Troubled Man
  15. —It's Christmas
  16. —Orions Belt
  17. —Piping up
  18. —Merry Xmas (intro)

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