Deep in my Dreams
You stand and watch me drown as it rains
it poors and whats more
is that I don't know why you play these games
or why you play them the way you seem to play
your dirty tactics seem to be your only way
you pretend to defend that the slate is clean
because you caught me and took away my dream.
But I won't stand here
no I won't wait for the down fall of my evaperated tears
to take away everything that I have worked for
they didn't come down not for the beauty I saw
but for what was ugly behind it
was the truth on the other side of the wall
Someone surely must have messed with your heart
someone surely took your soul
turned out its light and made it dark
someone surely let you go
somewhere down the line
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Stay
They've been together since teens
both have always had dreams
it would be easy for me to say that no one really knows what it means
but we're all dreamers in this nightmare of a world
he was a rapper trying to get his opinions heard
the fact is he was just another rapper
she didn't believe in him, it hurt
she was training to be a nurse
and for her parents there was nothing worse
than a white rapper
with no money to put in her purse
he tried telling them all he could make it
in the studio making beats, recording
taking cds to market street, priced at a pound
standing around, proving it works, self promoting, selling t shirts
couldn't knock him for trying
but the dream it was dying
and nobody was buying, in fact they wouldn't take them for free
a desperate boy is all they could see
with no recognition to the art that he holds in his heart and soul
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Girls Secret
Excuse me for the words im about to say
but these things happen to teenage girls around the world most every day
people will be like 'he didnt just say that'
there so shocked coz im saying it, I'm stating a fact
because shes that one girl, all the girls know her
but does everybody know her, is that the same girl
the girl when she goes out she looks amused
they dont know she refused so she was bruised and abused
because shes the girl that lies in bed and just thinks
she hates her life shes so pissed she drinks
so many things in her life they dont see
'just take away this pain give me one more E
after that I'll have one more beer so I can get pissed'
but she doesnt wanna hurt no one thats why she slits her wrists
because she thinks if she bleeds it will take the pain
the more she does it, it just stays the same
she acts all right infront of the girls but hates the guys
to her 'their all just bastards that tell lies'
she doesnt speak why she just keeps her mouth shut
she's scared so she closes her eyes and keeps the secret
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The times are a-changin again
This government will not control me
I will fight
I will not let it hold me
by making decisions and telling me whats right
I wish somebody could tell me how a kids supposed to make it out of Longsight
there are no jobs
tuition fees are in the dark of a winter night
where I look up
looking for a lucky star
children in the world do starve
while the leaders of our country dip their hands in the cookie jar
our ancestors they have marched too far
they have marched too far, for us to be where we are
we are all done wrong by the right to vote we are given
equality is still forbidden
and we are brain washed into distraction by the things they put on the television
the writers need to expose
and make the ignorant listen so they can see the people nobody knows
the youth are growing to see and are searching for followers to lead
racism survived because we were not let understand each other
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She Doesn't Respond
Your a good looking girl but that doesn't mean I want you to leave with me
cause I see through the make up off the naivety
another girl looking for a ritch man, looking for money
he tells her a joke and she acts like she finds it funny
buying her drinks, your paying her for sex
and at the end of the night she can still reject
at least if you get a prostute she will give you what you expect
you asked the bar man for service and you know he heard you
he lets three girls go before you and still doesn't serve you
and theres some fool by your side who tells you to chill
Well I'm stood behind you and I'm ready to kill
and five minutes later one of them girls is being sick
I've heard of ladys first but you need to do your job properly you idiot
before I know it I'm face to face with the guy whose by your side
even if I was sober I would still have this pride
so this isn't just a drunken fight
I wasn't sticking up for you, I was only doing what was right
because modern day men have become so soft and its ridiculous
he is such a good guy and yet he manages to act big with us
and he said that I was far from a gentleman or sumat
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Gates Of Leaders
On the streets I walk, I see shop windows that are broken
I know I heard the fire extinguisher had spoken
but I never knew, and can never accept what we loose
I just don't know how me and you became so confused.
Because you and I have lost, we can't find
we can't speak properly because they make us lose our mind
me and you are the wrong way around
because time doesn't go backwards that's what I've found.
An apple from a tree falling will always want the ground
an audience for a band, they will always want the sound
a person who wants to learn, they will want to be taught
and a heart without no mind is searching for a thought.
To those I love I hate to think that we don't have what it takes
but if they don't teach us we'll never know how to climb the gates
cause we bring out knifes and Fork's with empty plates
and smash reflections, we smash until the window breaks.
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From The Heart
I come from a place where they'l kill for nothin
terrorists found on the road next to me
the big bad wolfs huffin and puffin
but they'l blow ya house down
no warning, your not looking
that's why ignorance is forbidden
they'l take the life you've been given
we had toy guns to play with, as kids
but heard real ones fired, we did, found bullets
made memories that'l stay with
us forever
hope is that things will get better
write rhymes not just for an audience to applaud
I mean don't we all
wanna buy our mums mansions abroad?
dress sharp, make the cut like a sword
two hour talk shows, get an award
live so fast we never stop and pause
see the truth
people get away with rape in these laws
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The Truth
The truth, it comes through
as the sun shines through the blinds
to the darker days my mind rewinds
to see the pain and misery of how this place used to be
I look up to the cross on the wall and thank God I'm free
say I'm a catholic but still I question my belief
cause I knew a man of charity who became a thief
they say...
'times a great healer and you can turn over a new leaf'
but I can still see the scars on the heart of his mothers grief.
You say you know the road? I tell you, you don't know the street
your not knowing what its like so your in the lane, you hide
from a central fight with the broken homes on either side
'he was in the thick of it'. It was so stupid. He died.
And she committed suicide, and we say...
'if only we knew how she felt...
if only we could have gave her; our help'.
We're invading strangers when we're at war with ourself,
while we confuse the difference with a rich man and a rich man with wealth.
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Forgiven
My backs up against this wall I can't escape
if your gonna do it I guess this is my fate
cause I've been filled up with all this hate
I have been living a life thats such a waste
so hit me in the mouth and knock out my taste
pain has left me drained its made me freeze
you won't forgive me not even when I plead
I've begged for forgivness, been on my knees
I've seen the world and messed up over seas
more than one occasion I messed up with ease
I would fly past you and I did it with ease
I know I'm unforgiven but forgive me please
and am not blaming no one else but my self
so keep pushing me thats the way you'll help
can I ask if you have felt how I have felt?
my lifes a hell of a ride with no seat belt
I keep taking roads that lead me to no where
and I keep putting on this brave face
showing I don't care
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She Said
She said she's lost
She moved to Manchester to find herself
But I can't find her in this frost
She said she wanted more than a friendship
But less than a one night stand
And that's why we spoke while sitting
She said she lost an ex boyfriend
I told her I didn't wanna play pretend
Wouldn't be a faker
There's one bullet in the gun of a relationship
And I'm not that much of a risk taker
My selfishness repeated itself
It told me your not a first aid-er
She said there would be no other him
So I told her... I'm not him
She blamed herself
I watched her while she stopped herself from crying
It was too awkward to help
Two, just the two of us, can make it if we try
yeah right, I told her I wasn't gonna lie
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