South (feat. Lex Amor)

I used to live in South London

There’s not much of it left

He used to part of a team

There’s not much of them left

But it's all bless, don't even stress

I figured we were the same

Come from scattered bottled broken estates

His loose lips kept their promise

Blowing off the heads of broken promise

Priced out forced change

More rent to pay

Locked down full days

Big blue out late

Slow times hold weight

Cut ties outbreak

Make no mistake

We’ll show our face in

South, South, South, South

Steel bars on his head

Fighting habits and threats

Drinking low tides

Skating Brixton at night

The country's a mess

Showing no progress

We’ll build this fire from the troops and the lies

Dancing 'round the issue

Their fighting for their crown

Their trying to keep us under the thumb

And keep our minds locked down

Your questions are your answers

You know it in your soul

They don't want to be truthful

They don't want to lose control of

South, South, South, South

I used to live in North London

There’s not much of it left

My city know we living inna this

254 know even more than my history

Knows doors we whispered to on floors made of prism

Know forgiveness, know everything

But my soul’s a bloody mystery

Embers know of homes swept away by the furnace

Ever seen a city burn alert?

Learn to worship the dust

Cup overflowing bricks, we deserved it

We heard you, but do we keep the church or the service?

Sermons feeling further away from my verbiage, I’m hurting

Winter clapping back at my sternum, it’s murking me

I respect the urgency, earnestly

If it cracks the spirit of a lion it deserves it

I’m afraid that day ain’t today or another Jah

Cover me and whatever will need to be covered

Cover everything weather I’m in need or I got it

City in my pocket clutching at my solace