[00:04.33]Hoping for something better[00:10.01]Hoping for something better[00:11.43]I'm from where we have little respect for the law[00:13.61]And even less for rich people that pretend to be poor[00:16.48]Cold blooded hold grudges settle our scores[00:19.73]Live low budget commit benefit fraud[00:22.42]No justice, I perish the thought[00:25.14]**** weapons of war, chose the pen instead of the sword[00:28.08]Try and relate, we're forced to acquire a taste[00:31.23]For food past expiry dates[00:33.58]Who’s deciding my fate?[00:34.89]Will I rise to where messiah awaits?[00:36.65]Or plunge into hell's fiery lakes[00:39.30]They fight till the death, stay bad to the bone[00:41.98]Turn the price on your head to a tag on your toe[00:44.84]Live and direct, never watered down[00:47.49]I'm living life on the edge till someone talks me down[00:50.72]Grew up on the wrong side of the tracks[00:53.09]Stuck in London's underbelly fighting for scraps[00:56.40]This is where we live[00:57.42]This is where we die[00:58.53]This is where we laugh[00:59.55]This is where we cry[01:00.63]Hoping for something better[01:02.14]This is where we dream[01:03.04]This is where we work[01:04.10]This is where we bleed[01:05.14]This is where we hurt[01:06.20]So let's come together[01:07.65]This is where we live[01:08.41]This is where we die[01:09.58]This is where we laugh[01:10.70]This is where we cry[01:11.78]Hoping fo something better[01:13.08]This is where we dream[01:14.14]This is where we work[01:15.31]This is where we bleed[01:16.38]This is where we hurt[01:17.38]So let's come together[01:18.73]A place where silent nights are nonexistent[01:21.30]Life of crime violent fights and constant killings[01:24.37]Making right and wrong decisions[01:25.94]If it's a free country, why do I feel trapped by the cost of living?[01:29.88]I'm between a nine to five and writing rhymes[01:33.03]You gotta take what you want or get what you're given[01:35.38]So true[01:35.79]A loss of vision from things shining bright[01:38.41]Is what your blinded by[01:39.74]Stop[01:40.29]And listen[01:41.12]Cause everything that glitters ain't gold[01:43.05]And ain't no turning back cause life is like a one way road[01:46.64]We're seen differently through the eye of big brother[01:49.54]Though we all bleed red despite the skin colour[01:52.69]I feel like I'm ****ing 'till my times up[01:55.35]Cause reality bites and life sucks[01:57.82]Blood, we're in a trap and gonna get the **** out somehow[02:01.76]Ask my boy Keedo[02:02.94]He know[02:03.85]This is where we live[02:04.81]This is where we die[02:05.89]This is where we laugh[02:06.93]This is where we cry[02:08.09]Hoping for something better[02:09.56]This is where we dream[02:10.41]This is where we work[02:11.51]This is where we bleed[02:12.53]This is where we hurt[02:13.61]So let's come together[02:14.93]This is where we live[02:15.98]This is where we die[02:17.05]This is where we laugh[02:18.13]This is where we cry[02:19.26]Hoping for something better[02:20.46]This is where we dream[02:21.60]This is where we work[02:22.80]This is where we bleed[02:23.83]This is where we hurt[02:24.86]So let's come together[02:26.14]This is London where the devil never calls in advance[02:28.60]Because smoke[02:29.43]Life's a journey[02:29.98]I'm just walking the path[02:31.49]Growing up I learned some big lessons[02:33.57]With weapons lives come to swift ends in split seconds[02:37.01]Best believe, we ain't playing happy families[02:39.58]At times my yard's descended into savage anarchy[02:42.94]Most lack morality[02:44.27]Money ain't the root of all evil its people's selfish rationality[02:49.04]One love to my brothers in arms[02:51.23]And those struggling past on government grants[02:54.77]We're all exactly the same[02:55.80]We battle in vain like blood cells fighting off cancerous plague[02:59.54]Rogues roaming on road holding loaded revolvers[03:02.23]So I got my eyes open looking over my shoulder[03:05.49]Morals dissolve in the crack smoke[03:07.70]This is London[03:08.80]Where blood runs colder than cash flow[03:11.15]This is where we live[03:12.27]This is where we die[03:13.36]This is where we laugh[03:14.39]This is where we cry[03:15.47]Hoping for something better[03:16.87]This is where we dream[03:17.87]This is where we work[03:18.97]This is where we bleed[03:19.97]This is where we hurt[03:21.00]So let's come together[03:22.53]This is where we live[03:23.44]This is where we die[03:24.46]This is where we laugh[03:25.55]This is where we cry[03:26.65]Hoping for something better[03:28.15]This is where we dream[03:29.05]This is where we work[03:30.15]This is where we bleed[03:31.20]This is where we hurt[03:32.33]So let's come together[03:33.33]This is London!!!