Lay It Down

(Feat. Estelle)

No-one has the right just to take another's life

It can't just be me that sees things so obviously

Brother's dying, baby's crying, when's it gonna end

Can you tell me?

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Lay it down, you know that you don't go that route yeah yeah

Lay it down, everybody should know that by now

I remember a time when fighting didn't mean a crime

It was just between men who settled problems with their hands

Now we've got something its worse it's bad it's out of control

You know it's got to go

Chorus

Estelle

Listen 8 years old he's got the barrel in his hand Turning it round wonder what this thing is wow Its kinda heavy weighing in about the same as his arm Found it behind the bed of his big brother Carl now Carl was 19 and nah he weren't a dirty drug fiend or a pusher used to be a right left hooker used to use his hand 'stead of metal when he took em used to until his bredrin got tooken now Carl can't take two steps without lookin and he's lookin at 10 - 15 and he's shooken to the core mother said she's seen it all before she seen football dreams gone uncle same as before woulda been 18 pushin a big whip now but its two years since they laid the wreath on the ground now dreams are deferred and he's laying in the ground yo forget about the pow pow lay it down...

Chorus out