The Streets

[Hook: Kay Wills]

There goes another man down

Lights out in my town

So it's lights out in my town

There goes another man down

The streets is coming

So I keep on running

[Verse 1: Ghetts]

Young black boy from the ends growing up among shotters, murderers and robbers

My favourite game in the playground we used to play is burglars and coppers

I was never the fed though one day I took it way too far and got sent home

I had to come clean to my mum I know it weren't easy raising a son

I made it past on this vibe I'm amazed at what all your prayers have done

A few of the mandem ain't there now

I'm looking at old school pictures

My niggas have been emitted to mental home and ain't getting home for a minute

So when it's flashback Friday I'm putting up a picture on Insta

Our brothers that ain't there for us and a caption saying "I miss ya"

My heart goes out to your mothers and fathers

Aunties and uncles, daughters and sons, brothers and sisters

I'm at another funeral, tears in my eyes there's a couple of man here I despise

But

It's sincerely a sign and I'm real though

Is there still hope?

When it's kill or be killed, nope

It's reality, real people with real guns and real anarchy

Pax said that's just the way it is

Another man dead every other day in the bits

Throwing up gang signs living on a landmine

Sad times

[Hook: Kay Wills]

[Verse 2: Lunar C]

Buh!

Take a drive and look at my hometown

See I grew in a squalla like mould

If you're dumb enough to be someone who stood on my toes

I can either crush your pride or swallow my own

There goes another man down another wreckless youth that wouldn't back out

Cos everybody's been taught up until now

So he thinks he's gotta act stubborn and proud

If you're from round here then you're used to it

If you end up here then try and adapt

The only people around us that have money are drug dealers

So we aspire to be that

Block the pain out and put away the anguish

Cos misery loves company but it doesn't attract it

I was brought up broke and I grew up going to school with holes in my shoes

I told 'em I'd do well, they told me only time will tell

So I guess this is the moment of truth

The city looked bigger when I was a knee high

So if I'm not a giant now at least that's what it feels like

It's nothing pretty, this life I live isn't picturesque

The shit I seen will give you nightmares and make you piss the bed

Cursed with a money driven mentality

Generations will pass it down

And I said I ain't got much I can brag about

But I ain't gotta wear my big brother's hand me downs

BUH!

[Hook: Kay Wills]

[Verse 3: Tempz]

Fought their lives cause this war ain't nice

I was raised on the same street where I saw them die

It's deep

Right before my eyes on a pouring night

Yeah there's war outside and it sure ain't right

On either side there's some that grind but there's more that write

Trying to survive from 5 to 9 ain't no different

Trying to provide for that kitchen

Another guy just went missing

Family cry cause they miss him

Yeah each day we fight

Or it's just a vicious cycle we live in

You can hear it from verses as it emerges to the surface

My mic is spinning like this earth is

Constant pain like we deserve this

I'm trying to change I ain't perfect

Some mistakes just weren't worth it

Just finished community service but

But shit weren't new to me

Been serving the community

But now it got through to me

I can do more than you can do for me

And that's just the way it is, it's that real

You can either take or give

But still faith exists and I'm used to it

Cause it's just the way we live

[Hook: Kay Wills]