In The Fire

I know I got religion

I belong to the noisy crew

You see, we shout when we get happy

That's the way we Christian do

Oh, have you been tried-

Have you been tried in that fire?

I heard bullets sing higher than Mariah in choir

Spent a lot of time trapping now I'm tryna retire

But this shit runs in my blood and I'm the guy they require

Yeah, these guns don't bring nothing but prison and death

Still all my **** just admire the fire

Bro squeeze and he missed, but we admire a trier

Finesse kid, you could never lie to a liar

But Fred got the fire, I fire for days

I've got to write them in my notes, they'll be igniting the page

Grinding on cold nights, putting light to the flame

Now there's no flame that can melt the ice on my chain, yeah

I really put that ice in rice for the 'caine

Me and Santan, you won't see nothing like this again

That's my young boys again on the glide with the flame

I just really hope your block came with fire escapes

Before my entrance, I took the fire exit

Tried and tested, about twenty times arrested

Two times guilty, no comment, I guess they guessed it

Couple times bail, no forensics

This a Deezy pendant, I don't need a necklace

We stay protected and connected, it's the energies I'm blessed with

And now they're watching like Netflix

Had me doing next shit trying to get rich, but what's rich?

Took more losses than Boris, I sold more boxes than the post office

21 in jail, it turned me so solid

Why you think my vision's sick? I changed the game with my brain and some robotics

If you fell in my fire you'd probably roast on it

Heat up the stove and put hope on it

Cah they don't care about our lives, I put my soul on it

I'm done trying to be somebody to some nobodies

I'm being so honest and they don't know porridge

Fire burning while I'm watching higher learning

Guns bussing, tyres turning, that's a Russian and a German

That's your phone ringing, you can hear the beep

You won't be saved by the bell when you hear the screech

In it so deep, open, ocean, there's man escaping some shells they can barely see

Me and bro raising hell, we gon' share the heat

Then put us in the same cell, we gon' share the sleep

Am I my brother's keeper? It's deeper

I'm my brother's leader, speaker

I'm the eldest, the one who had to make a name so the bells ring

So nobody would trouble my siblings in this whirlwind

My older cousin wasn't known for nothing

Never had no one I could call but I was holding something

I'm digging deep with this tool like I'm known for plumbing

Something in your chest like it's Robitussin

Word to arsonists, I burn all this

I stood in front of all three dragons and heard 'Dracarys'

And now we're jumping out of G-Wagons and murking parties

Man are coming out with these bangers and dirty dancing

Nobody puts baby in a corner

I uplift my girl like I'm Swayze in the water

And if it's already written maybe I'm the author

So accustomed to the fire I get shivers when I'm naked in the sauna

How many times have they mistaken me for Scorcher?

I'm looking in the mirror saying, "Justin, just cool nuh"

Send Ghetto downstairs and tell 'em, "Just bring me water"

And tell Ghetts I put something in the formula

I'm focussed, I don't need to burn the Kush

This is Moses speaking to the burning bush

I stood in front of the fire and learned to cook

Finished my verse and never heard a hook

Riskiest numbers, this jungle, stick for your youngers

He's hungry, picked off the fungus

Kept humble, slipped him a hundred

Yeah, lived in the dungeon

Those AirMax, which **** stung them?

Can't walk in my shoes

You could be risking a bunion

The government's twisted, I cover this shift to cover this Christmas

Forget them old friends, I'm done with those bitches

They colour coded my brothers and sisters

Run the rhythm, you're a brother but you're running with them

Try accusing me of colourism

Blinded 'cause you look at me with tunnel vision

I was falling but I've gone and risen

Is this **** trusty or sideshow Bob when he's creeping on Krusty?

Streets keep me tussling, people disgust me

Racist disease, that shit that disgusts me

Don't touch me, on the streets with the sweeper

'Cause the streets prove dusty

And I've always got love for genuine

People that buss me

Santan, and the gang advisor

I'ma check him out

I'm a analyser

She was calling me an antagoniser

Let me santise, where's the sanitiser? (Jheeze)

Just flutter by, he said, "Giggs, can you handle this?

He said, "Float like a butterfly"

I bring truth but they love a lie

Plans, I'm the man you should run them by

Yeah

In the fire been tried

Affected the way I've been wired inside

You can hide or glide, I could have been deported

That's the definition of a fight or flight

You can type all you like, I know about homeless

Immigration, they took me from my Mum's arms

Fuck a gun charge, two swords, I'm a Ronin

Błaszczykowski, I'm trying to score with the Polish

Pain in my eyes, plans of me staying in the guide

With a vision of this changing my life

Crime's on the rise, hate's on the rise

Feel like everything but my mum's pay's on the rise

Did you come through? That's the question

Affording a burner was never man's problem

Adoption, we couldn't find homes for the weapons

By the station we've got poles, no election

In the fire been tested, before I had money, it was time I invested

Nothing changed, still time I invest in, watch game delicate

Tutankhamun, there's money in skeletons

All I've got to do is point, they're gonna sever his head

And tell **** that we're better as friends

Nights that I can't remember with some people I could never forget

Casa Cruz, you could bet a Nusr-et

Don't make me call a young gunner on the back of a ped, slapping a lead

Civilians grabbing your friends

There's chaos on the main road, they called choppers and tents

All because of some shit that you said

I've got killers with me and they love me

They make a man's heart stop

The shit you find horrifying gets laughed off

I'm like Meekz, bro, I won't stop, can't stop

Yeah, it's kind of different when the fire's what you start from