Grow Up

[Verse 1: slowthai]

Raised in Midlands, don't know the half of

Why you kipping? Move oz like Narcos

True, it’s chapping, trim at the barber's

Used to get a border, pack for a starter

Out of order, every bathroom

Weighing up scores, got half for a bastard

Pints and peanuts the life I chose

Mice in the speakers, chew holes in cones

One-fifty for a ninety-nine cone

Where's my change? Got changed on the road

Pop goes the weasel, gripping on your throat

Pow like Lethal just curry goat

Are what you eat, you must yam bare pussy

Believe what I see and I just see a pussy

Can’t try it with T 'cause T ain't a pussy

Used to slang B like a BB bullet

I was with Lloyd, unemployed, nonprofit

I was with Beau selling nose out a cottage

Cream, get the money, then the cream got clotted

Had to leave Lings 'cause Lings was the hottest

Deal with the drought, now trekkin' to Norwich

Farmers are coming, I link with the Brummys

Anorak, so I got no worries

Fingers in the air for my brothers on porridge

Apply the pressure like Uncle Bully

Just like you, fam, I used to get bullied

Till I dragged them down by a hoodie

Kicking and screaming like, "Go get your mummy"

Thought I was scummy, had to get money

Entrepreneur, sell wraps to a mummy

Always had a laugh when nothin' weren't funny

Hop out the dumps like my name's Bugs Bunny

[Chorus: slowthai & Jaykae]

Growing up too fast

Nothing don’t last

And you can’t move forward

If you're stuck in the past

Growing up too fast

Nothing don’t last

Said we can't move forward (Yo)

If we're stuck in the past

[Verse 2: Jaykae]

Raised in Small Heath like Tommy Shelby

Plus my south blood, nobody helped me

Chicken and chips every day ain't healthy

Ain’t had it hard if your mum and dad's wealthy

Back then fiends might ask for a fix

Right now it's fans askin' for a selfie

There I got a voice in my head and it tells me

To give a man a smile on his face from Chelsea

I used to buy a cheese, that was four one fours

Now I get the weed out when I'm on tours

Used to be fist fights, now they want swords

Volley a man's head with my Rockports

If we get pulled they find baseball bats

Tell the officer I brought man the wrong sports

Don't make 'em like me no more bredrins

Dem man are playin' and I'm like concourse

Can't get a ten deck so I get twenty

Tryna make the whole country smoke plenty

Can't tell a badman there's no entry

Bang, bang, bang 'til the whole place empty

Still thank God every day I can emcee

Just so nothing on the roads don't tempt me

I ain't met no one who lived to a century

I think smoking's fucked up my memory

[Chorus: slowthai]

Growing up too fast

Nothing don't last

And you can't move forward

If you're stuck in the past

Growing up too fast

Nothing don't last

Can't move forward

If we're stuck in the past

[Interlude: slowthai]

You looked up to me, you see

So why waste your life tryna grow up

When you can enjoy it every moment

You know what I'm sayin'?

Don't get old, be bold

Don't get told, be bold

[Outro: slowthai]

Raised in Britain? No, you isn't

Soft like kitten, I'm tough like cement

Kitchen sievin', belly in Knotts

And nothin' ain't sitting right

Raised in Britain, no you isn't

Soft like kitten, I'm tough like cement

Kitchen sievin', belly in Knotts

Nothing ain't sitting right