Lowkey – Blood Sweat And Tears Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1: Klashnekoff
- As lightning strikes and thunder pounds,
- Over the grey skies of East London town,
- Prophecy K returns from the underground,
- Signified by the peoples crying, trumpet sounds,
- Yeah the system it tried to shut me down,
- But I been on my ting before Onyx was flinging guns around,
- Blood, sweat, and tears for years,
- It feels like my careers been in the dumping ground,
- Yeah, this is how hunger sounds,
- And I'm the hunter now, 'Lash the lion heart,
- A.K.A. the man behind the iron mask
- For ten years straight, I've been raising the iron bar
- Tryna breathe the life back into this dyin' art
- So why try and par? When you'll meet the same fate as that lion Scar
- This game is fake; full of two-faced lying ras.
- Who would sell their soul and arse just to climb the charts
- Yea, but me, I put in too much time in the graft
- Refinin' my craft for labels to sign me for a minor advance
- Picture K'Lash, mimin' on Trance
- Now picture Dr. Dre beats/'Lash rhymin' with Starks
- It's all fate and I got mine in my grasp
- They're all snakes, let 'em die in the past
- But who knows what the future holds?
- These N.W.O. soldiers will probably shoot me cold
- All because the truth was told
- You should know I did it from the heart.
Hook x2
- I'm still here, pushing after several years,
- I'm still here, standing strong, never in fear,
- I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears,
- I'll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears,
Verse 2: Lowkey
- I don't do this for the happy ravers or the aggy haters
- I do this for the warriors and the gladiators
- Do this for those whose lives you never cared about
- Can't pronounce their names, their origins or their whereabouts
- Those brought up around tragedy and sadness
- Who adjusted and found normality in the madness
- Fight the power 'til I'm out of breath like Malcolm X
- You empower the powerful, I empower the powerless
- They'll play you on the radio if you rap about a Gucci belt
- But rap about the government; you might as well shoot yourself
- Industry fairies say I rap about conspiracy theories
- Just to hide the fact that they lyrically fear me
- Got that eye of a tiger, the heart of a lion
- The mind of a lifer, my stance is defiant
- I rise like a phoenix, immediate from the ashes
- My existence is inconvenient for the masses
- Though we are equal, I despise an imitation
- I live for my people and die for liberation
- I stand as a visionary; some have got plans of killin' me
- To literally vanish me physically like Aborigines
- Hannibal with the mask, an animal with the bars
- I'm grappling with my shackles, I channel it through my art
- Feel it in the ambience, champion, heavyweight
- My life is nothin' but my pride is somethin' that you can never take
- They think I'm elusive or think I'm a nuisance
- I swear these major labels must think that I'm stupid
- Keep your 360's you're convincing these dudes with
- Like I'll give you the blueprint for pimpin' my music...
- I say that like K'Lash, he's another lion,
- Every hardship from getting scarred to my brother dying,
- Spit all of it with or without a big audience,
- Through the Blood, Sweat & Tears I stand victorious!
Hook x2
- I'm still here, pushing after several years,
- I'm still here, standing strong, never in fear,
- I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears,
- I'll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears,