Skinnyman – Council Estate Of Mind Lyrics
Lyrics
- Talkin' 'bout the science of social deprevation
- From 'ere to whereever in the council estates the mans is strugglin'.
- The poor lower working class.
Verse 1
- Blud, you got to sleep round here and have nightmares,
- Wake up and find the worst reality is right there
- The difference is, in my dream's I'm always runnin' scared,
- But in reality, on road, I'm comin' prepared
- So now who's gonna wanna run up and become a gonner
- Everybody's gonna wanna get us, but they're on a longers
- I'm still out to get the same cats from last summer,
- But man can't see them again,It's like they've done a runner
- I'm still in the same mannor, on the same number
- And everybody knows where I'm at and what I'm under
- I'm in the same slums, raisin' the funds
- In the city where the yute man are blazin' the guns
- Just look how this United Kingdom has come
- Within the council estates where man'll fight over crumbs
- We got young single parent mums
- Havin' the hardest time tryn'a survive for their daughters and their sons
- Be comin' out their yutes, cause their yutes are left out there
- Raised on the ways of these streets without care
- Now we're havin' our fair share of gun warefare
- And it's all gone nuts and that's just cause it's poor here
- People want more here,We're all on the floor here
- It's raw here, can't even sleep and ignore here
- Cause life's kinda militant,Stuck in the grime
- Nothin's equivillent to this council estate of mind
Chorus
- We know that we have been living our lives through the hardest times
- Still we know that we must keep up the faith in our hearts and minds
Verse 2
- I live amongst smashed syringes, Squatters' doors hangin' off the hinges
- Hookers lookin' money for Bobby, shottin' their minges
- Leavin' used condoms out on the staircases
- Next to the broken pipes that's left by the Base Heads
- Local estate heads, have grown up to hate Feds
- Kids with no helmets drivin' round on some bait peds
- Abandoned cars are at the bottom of the block
- So when it's pissin' down,Kids have got a place to plot
- To cotch and blaze pot,And watch this whole spot
- Full up of lost souls with no goals who get left to rot
- And what, I don't expect you to ever comprehend is
- Why I got all actin' so self defensive
- The neighbourhood shotters have all seen what it's comin' to
- Local coppers on patrol are boppin' with a gun too
- So anyone could bun you, Leave and desert you
- How long they gonna mourn you when somebody murks you
- Tryin' not to get shift when shiftin' your work true
- When you wanna shift there ain't nowhere to splurt to
- The stakes are high, still the best get placed
- Tryn'a find how sweet success might taste
- In a place where everybody is tryin' to flex
- Nobody's really gettin' anywhere
- So everybody's vexed,Livin' life kinda militant
- Stuck in the grime, Nothin's equivillent to this council estate of mind
Chorus
- We know that we have been living our lives through the hardest times
- Still we know that we must keep up the faith in our hearts and minds
Verse 3
- So these are lyrics for my people,Livin' on the streets who
- Know they ain't got nuttin' else to retreat to
- If you gettin' food next man'll wanna eat you
- Pure, bad beefs just to get to delete you
- So many man nowadays are so see-through
- Beware of their deceitful ways when the greet you
- Those who feel it know it because they've been through
- Times when their friends wanna switch up to beat you
- I never used to see it but,Now I got a clear view
- Don't let no bad minded heads try get near you
- If they're not on your level they'll never hear you
- Ain't no time to be shaken or fearful
- If you've been through some of this evil that we do
- A hundred Hail Mary's ain't enough to redeem you
- All of my long time friends are crack fiends
- Who have gone too far, but still say they didn't mean too
- Does alleviation through base and crack relieve you
- Everybody's losin' their mindAnd even me too
- Step into my world if you wanna catch a preview
- But don't tell a soul, cause they just won't believe you
- The life's kinda militant, Stuck in the grime
- Nothin's equivillent to this council estate of mind
- Life's kinda militant, Stuck in the grime
- Nothin's equivillent to this council estate of mind
Chorus
- We know that we have been living our lives through the hardest times
- Still we know that we must keep up the faith in our hearts and minds
- We know that we have been living our lives through the hardest times
- Still we know that we must keep up the faith in our hearts and minds