Hayden - Skinnyman

Teachers who saw their education as a blessin

Come to school now all in a sort of depression

All o' da kids in the class, they all stressin

The teacher’s just waitin for that first kid to test him

So school doesnt seem like its any kind of lesson

We’re out on the streets tryina make our possession

The manor that we’re from has turned like spaghetti western

With itchy fingers on da triggers ready for the pressin and its…

Pure depression, I’m standin at the crossroads,

Thinkin bout all the other children of the lost souls

And now we only aim for goals that we can see

Another brudda thought he saw his future shottin B

He’s 19 an' he’s caught wid a half a Kee

So now he aint comin home until he’s 33

What a waste of a life

Jus' like a criss girl I knew who fucked man for a taste of pipe

No-one's ready to face up to these fights

But you find some mad shit on these council estates at night

So lock your shit down safe an tight

And stand firm like a soldier so you dont lose face, alright?

The police patrol the streets like beasts

Instead of chasin the theifs they pull us up and give us beats

So we run these streets red, kids are holdin their head

As they drivin around on their stolen peds

They’re just dealin the cards that life has dealt em

Half of their crews are now lockdown in Feltham

Schools an' probation just cant seem to help dem

The law has made sure that they’ve grown to resent dem

Dont ask them now what is their life representin

To get through their day is their sole intention

An you cant tell them that they’re wrong

Coz they’re all men-child and feel they know whats goin on

They havent got no time to enjoy jus bein young or havin fun

They out there keepin it headstrong

They couldnt let Skinnyman come and advise them

They look at me as if my words was patronisin

They cant think about no long term plans

When they just young boys tryin to be some o' da mans dem

They cant think about no long term plans

When they just young boys tryin to be some o' da mans dem…