Devlin – As Time Goes By Lyrics
Lyrics
Devlin
- I'm fed up with life at the minute
- So I get it off my chest when I'm writing my lyrics
- Having to give my Nan hospital visits
- I just pray to God she don't turn to a spirit
- Cause she's the only Nan I've got left
- And it hurts in my head when I contemplate her death
- Knowing that one day soon she'll be gone
- That thought leaves me short of breath
- Yeah that's just one of the things
- That makes me feel like I'm running in rings
- No process made that's a regular thing
- But if I stop spitting that would be the death of a king
- I've got to learn to focus my mind at the lowest of times
- Then lo and behold the scene could be mine
- Draw you a picture with words I describe with a caption beside
Hook
- As life goes by, in the blink of an eye
- I stay focused on writing my rhymes
- These streets are inviting to crime
- If I didn't write music I'd probably go mad in my mind
- Because it's only music that keeps me sane
- Plus bud and beers to forget the pain
- Just reflecting my days go away
Smasher
- Let me tell another story, tell about a 23 year old man that don't wanna' fail
- Every move he makes his heart's in it, from the start to the finish
- Because losing ain't never ever been an option
- Constantly cooking up plans and concoctions
- Raised in a place called Hoxton
- By his Nan and granddad, gets to see his mum on a weekend
- That was a treat then she was spoilt rotten and then its back to the east then
- Years later man will be sick with a big pen
- Living in a place where the youths strap big lens
- Pure drama a star performer leave the boost so hot u could call it a sauna
- 10 out of 10 I'm back at it again whatever the outcome its music to the end
Hook
- As life goes by, in the blink of an eye
- I stay focused on writing my rhymes
- These streets are inviting to crime
- If I didn't write music I'd probably go mad in my mind
- Because it's only music that keeps me sane
- Plus bud and beers to forget the pain
- Just reflecting my days go away
Devlin
- Just another day in the life this music ain't paying me right
- Like a worker at MacDonald's receiving minimum wage
- I get pennies for the shit that I've write on the pages
- Like I'm feeling so what in slaved due to power and urban decay
- There ain't no prospects in the UK today
- So my mates keep playing up the 'caine
- I don't know what I stand in the struggling and strain
- I'm trapped in the thunder and rain
- But I don't give a fuck for the fame so if I full pray to my sins then lust is to blame
- I'm in your ear like blood in your veins
- And yeah I'm on the road like buskers and trains
- I'm just like everyone I love to be paid
- I'm messed up it must be the bud that I blaze
- There ain't nothing for us
- The way I'm feeling there ain't no word in the thesaurus
- Born on the 7th of may I'm a Taurus
- Can't keep my job cause I can't take orders
- I feel like I'm outside of the borders
- Looking inside of the rich and the borders then I take a look around my headquarters
- And I'm ripping my hair out soon my heads gonna' look like Gail Porter's
- They hit us with extortion and treat illegal immigrants much more important than me and you
- Cause I've lived there all my life and live got nothing to show for it
- And you can't get rich from work so spitting I've gotta' have a really good go at it
- I've put my boat in the stream and now I keep rowing it it's my dream I won't let go of it
Hook
- As life goes by, in the blink of an eye
- I stay focused on writing my rhymes
- These streets are inviting to crime
- If I didn't write music I'd probably go mad in my mind
- Because it's only music that keeps me sane
- Plus bud and beers to forget the pain
- Just reflecting my days go away