Mate In Five

You don't know what love is

If you don't put up a fight

You don't know what love is

If you don't stay up all night

Boy, and you don't know what love is

If you too good to call a million times

And you say you know what love is

But I swear you've never seen it in your life, ooh

Eight-ball ballsed off

No food in my drum, that's foolish

Cah the jakes don't care about doorstops

Big red metal break Mumsy's door off

They don't know about that, they're clueless

Man rap about trap, that humours me

Cah you give them a Z, they're clueless

And the snakes and the kettles and Cubans

I know man from the ends that's famous

But I see 'em in a different light to the public

'Cause I knew them since bally and stainless

Seen man go broke for the babes

Just stuntin' in Wraiths for the babes, it's aimless

Seen man get gyal and move brainless

Put that hoe before their day ones

Think that they're winning, but love blinds man

Like how can you not see that she a drainerz?

Seen man treat girl like objects, but they don't object

Gyaldem shameless

Seen man say gyal only good for the uh

How he forget the queens that raised us

It was a solo queen that raised me

Clothed me, loved me, fed me, bathed me

Poured the jug on my hair in the bath in the dark

When the lights ain't on bring safety

Didn't have much as a kid, but never got bored

Cah my mum like me, she crazy

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Yeah

Babe

Uh

What the heck is your problem?

D'you think that I'm wrong in the head 'cause I don't talk much

And I'm cold, Steve Austin?

She said that my aura's soothing

Now she wanna play with the raasclaat johnson

Ah

Yeah

Open up your soul for this, soul for this psalm

Man hate 'cause I'm effortless with it

They're overpissed, overpissed

I'm flying tickets through the Smith

But I ain't going to the Apollo, my bruddah

I'm tryna make dough, my bruddah

Even when it's high, move like the stack's low, my bruddah

You wanna look rich, that's why you're so broke, my bruddah

My lions talk with the sun in a sacred manner

So you can never soak, my bruddah

It's not Mr. Quakers when I'm up at seven with a pole full of oats, my bruddah

Manna been a all-night runner

Ever been stopped with a bag full of piss

Pissed off like I ain't ever gonna see freedom

Till my bro's grown and it ain't, my bruddah

And you say you know what love is

But I swear you've never seen it in your life, ooh

And you say you know what love is

But I swear you've never seen it in your life, ooh

You don't know what love is

If you don't put up a fight

You don't know what love is

If you don't stay up all night

Boy, and you don't know what love is

If you too good to call a million times

And you say you know what love is

But I swear you've never seen it in your life, ooh

Life got me feeling like Fresh did

Whole lotta Chuckies around man

Loudmouth dons, had to show them the exit

No, really, I felt like Fresh did

Surrounded by ooters, cluless gunmen

Tried help dem man gain a perspective

But they never did listen

Half of my schoolfriends locked in Chelmsford

Nah, trust me, I grew like Fresh did

Oats in my bag, not breakfast

Seen man get bored in a five-a-side by the older guy 'cause he meggsed him

Nah, really, I done it like Fresh did

Seen man shop base, get it under his nails and turn to a Garfield

Next ting, uhhh, end up sectioned

Last year he was whippin' a Aston

Throwin' that dirt on the pavement (Yuck)

I guess karma's blatant

Five falls all it took like Jackson

But he fought with two blind, not Eamonn

Now he's in a loony bin with a apron

And his mumsy's still in the manor

Praying like "God, please save him"

Like "God, please save him"

Like "God, please save him"

Like "God, please save him"

'Cause you don't know

Yeah