For a Minute

[Verse 1: Joy Crookes]

Chicken shops with £2 tops

We're roamin' but can't get enough

Eatin' sunshine everyday

Accustomed to our South East way

Cruisin' in the rainy streets

Smokin' cigarettes like sweets

Creamy legs in London air

Our hands are up but we still care

The blades don't turn

But you see them from miles and miles

And you learn

That over here we hide our grief behind smiles

And we run around and laugh 'cause that's our style

[Chorus: Joy Crookes]

Oh, we know

It's not about where we're livin'

Make the most for a minute

Girls can dream, still know

It's not about where we're livin'

Make the most for a minute, yeah

(It's not about where we're livin'

Make the most for a minute)

(It's not about where we're livin'

Make the most for a minute)

[Verse 2: Joy Crookes]

Tommy, Shaq, Nathan and Mo

"Mum, why ain't my brother home?"

Cradled by a dozen flowers

Streets just took another child

Ain't it strange that my home

Had closed before it ever opened?

Don't you know

That over here we hide our grief behind smiles?

And we run around and laugh 'cause that's our style

[Chorus: Joy Crookes]

Oh, we know

It's not about where we're livin'

Make the most for a minute

Girls can dream, still know

It's not about where we're livin'

Make the most for a minute

[Verse 3: KarimThaPeasant, Joy Crookes, Both]

There's pain outside

There's pain in the art

No time for the worst in me (Worst in me)

Remember finding the email

From the penitentiary that locked up Tariq (Up Tariq)

They don't have control on us

No, they don't have control on we (On we)

They can steal all of our space

But if we ain't there then it's cheap

[Chorus: Joy Crookes]

Oh, we know

It's not about where we're livin' (It's not a-)

Make the most for a minute (It's not a-)

Girls can dream, still know (Girls can dream, still know)

It's not about where we're livin' (It's not about where we're livin')

Make the most for a minute

Oh, ah

It's not about where we're livin'

(Make the most for a minute)

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

(It's not about where we're livin'

Make the most for a minute)