This Is Where - Rhyme Asylum

I’m from where we have little respect for the law

And even less for rich people that pretend to be poor

Cold blooded hold grudges settle our scores

Live low budget commit benefit fraud

No justice, I perish the thought

Fuck weapons of war, chose the pen instead of the sword

Try and relate, we’re forced to acquire a taste

For food past expiry dates

(Who's deciding my fate?) Will I rise to where messiah awaits?

Or plunge into hell’s fiery lakes

They fight to the death, stay bad to the bone

Turn the price on your head to a tag on your toe

Live and direct, never watered down

I’m living life on the edge ‘till someone talks me down

Grew up on the wrong side of the tracks

Stuck in London’s underbelly fighting for scraps

This is where we live, this is where we die

This is where we laugh, this is where we cry, (Hoping for something better)

This is where we dream, this is where work

This is where we bleed, this is where we hurt, (So let’s come together)

A place where silent nights are nonexistent

Life of crime violent fights and constant killings

Making right and wrong decisions

If it’s a free country, why do I feel trapped by the cost of living?

I’m between a nine to five and writing rhymes

You gotta take what you want or get what you’re given

A loss of vision from things shining bright

Is what your blinded by and listen

Cos everything that glitters ain’t gold

And ain’t no turning back coz life is like a one way road

We’re seen differently through the eye of big brother

Though we all bleed red despite the skin colour

I feel like I’m fucked 'till my times up

Cos reality bites and life sucks

Blood, we’re in a trap and gonna get the fuck out somehow

Ask my boy Keedo — he know

This is where we live, this is where we die

This is where we laugh, this is where we cry, (Hoping for something better)

This is where we dream, this is where work

This is where we bleed, this is where we hurt, (So let’s come together)

This is London where the devil never calls in advance

Life’s a journey — I’m just walking the path

Growing up I learned some big lessons

With weapons lives come to swift ends in split seconds

Best believe, we ain’t playing happy families

At times my yard’s descended into savage anarchy

Most lack morality

Money ain’t the root of all evil its people’s selfish rationality

One love to my brothers in arms

And those struggling past on government grants

We’re all exactly the same

We battle in vain like blood cells fighting off cancerous plague

Rogues roaming on road holding loaded revolvers

So I got my eyes open looking over my shoulder

Morals dissolve in the crack smoke

This is London — where blood runs colder than cash flow

This is where we live, this is where we die

This is where we laugh, this is where we cry, (Hoping for something better)

This is where we dream, this is where work

This is where we bleed, this is where we hurt, (So let’s come together)