Lowkey – Rise And Fall Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1
- Back in the days, I had dreams of rapping on stage
- Imagined listening to radio when my track would get played
- Its tragic I never fathomed that the magic would fade
- Lets take it back to the days when I established my name
- I was over hungry for beats, like the melody was something to eat
- Bars a 100 a week was nothing to me
- Long as I had something deep to crush a sucker and see
- I won battles but in a couple I fumbled; suffered defeats
- I was grinding hard, way harder than other artists did
- At 17 on Choice FM, I went bar for bar with Swiss
- Lyrics for 45 minutes, ready and prepared
- No lie, you can ask anybody that was there
- Simple and plain my CD got critical acclaim
- I began to build an official position in the game
- Quicker than I could think I was fulfilling all my aims
- I miss them days and now its difficult and shit isnt the same
Hook
- Everything that goes up must come down
- I was alright before, but Im fucked up now
- Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
- Its time that I document my rise and my fall
- If its not your destiny then its not meant to be
- In the mirror face to face with my worst enemy
- Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
- Its time that I document my rise and my fall
Verse 2
- Before volume 2 dropped, my brother died
- I never stopped I just carried on busting rhymes
- Putting on a brave face but it was still tough at night
- I Couldn't sleep, cos my nightmares were nothing nice
- Volume 2 came out, got love in the press
- Regardless, I was still stressed and fucking depressed
- More successful, the more I felt stuck in a web
- Pain ate away at my soul till nothing was left
- There were rumours about, I heard the dirty sound
- They even tried to say that chance has turned me down
- Everyday they were on the phone tryna get me on that show
- Till I had to tell them straight, look I didn't wanna go
- But I didn't wanna blow, had nothing to prove brother
- In '05 I won an award for best newcomer
- But that shit's all irrelevant
- They say the only thing worse than not getting what you wish for is getting it
Hook
- Everything that goes up must come down
- I was alright before, but Im fucked up now
- Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
- Its time that I document my rise and my fall
- If its not your destiny then its not meant to be
- In the mirror face to face with my worst enemy
- Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
- Its time that I document my rise and my fall
Verse 3
- I just can't handle the chinswagging and the lips chatting
- My issues have me making decisions to quit rapping
- Its funny (why) cos that almost really did happen
- I changed my mind everyday, kept zigzagging
- But Im a lyricist, I live for this, I tried to stop
- Got volume 3 of my chest and hit writers block
- Very pissed, I was getting sick of my topics
- A pad and paper, I couldn't fill a line of it
- Seeing rappers in magazines, I know Im better then
- Cussing has-beens when really Im just a never-been
- Me and my clique would be rich if we were American
- Those negative times are so clear when I remember them
- I hope you heard a bar you can maybe relate with
- Life is strange, it never remains the same; it changes
- It wasn't just memories that made me make this
- Cause we all rise and fall on a daily basis