Skinnyman – Day To Day Basis Lyrics
Lyrics
Intro
- "So Skinnyman, now that you've signed a deal with talkin loud and your
- currently Recording your album, how's this altered your lifestyle...? "
- (Let me play this one, tell you exactly how it is in Finsbury
- Cause in my life, ain't nuttin nice... check it blud...)
Skinnyman
- Nowadays I live my life on a day to day basis
- Cause everybody in the whole fam's got cases
- Roamin the streets that are full of the screw faces
- Resortin us back to the blocks that are on the stair cases
- We hope we don't get to face the bases
- Who wanna try erase us to take the papers, laterz
- To what my whole council estate is
- Dwellin on the city on top of these sky scrapers
- Me? I keep a watch over the whole of my acres
- From those who wanna take us from 5'0's to fakers
- Cause all were tryin'a be is money makers
- So we might have had a chance to escape from some of these derelict places
- Were livin life at fast paces
- It's like were gutter rats tryin'a contend these rap races
- So best to tighten up your laces
- Cause this year I'm steppin up a year to fast for you to chase us
- You think id wanna stick around this town
- And have to wait for a crackhead to beat my mum down
- To get a phone call sayin just bring your money now
- By any little fassy with a bucket runnnin round
- I don't love the sound of what those haters wanna do to me
- That's why I'm not givin them any opportunity
- For me it's not about all of the money and the jewellrey
- Survival of the fittest-it's life so now it's you or me
- And I don't wanna move away from the flats
- But that's they only way for me to get away from these cats
- I sit and wonder why the fuck it has to be like that
- And wonder it would have been like if we blew up in rap
- But that's a dream and me I put reality first
- And yeah it's real that these fiends wanna steal your mums purse
- Does it seem, the whole of this manor is cursed
- Like the bubble is boilin and just waitin to burst
- This generations gettin worse-these yoot man are comin up
- Nuttins out there for 'em so they just don't give a fuck
- And they gettin to lose so then,
- they're out on streets late nights confused again
- You put your feet in
- Their shoes for them
- And you see what you can do for them
- And you too might screw for them
- And this ain't really nuttin new for them
- A man like you will probably label them a hooligan
- To live good or bad, but me I'm mud cause the hood is bad
- Dressin in rags on the 'ags, you know my hood is mad
- We worry bout gettin beat up or stabbed
- Now we worry bout the man that's come to shoot up the ave'
- The dreams we used to have are gone
- For those hopes are basic needs
- were in the bottom of the barrel tryin'a fight for lifes necessities
- Those older man who's takin time to give advice to me
- Tryina show me just how nice my life could be
- With me id like to share the vision
- But all I see is man on a mission
- My streets are full of friction
- And you can check my diction
- It gets deep everywhere that you go
- Cause there's snakes everywhere in every ghetto you go
- Wo wo...

