Revolution

By Lowkey

On Dear Listener

Released on October 20, 2008

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[Verse 1: Lowkey]

Little man never did exams

Got a particular bigger plan flipping grams

When a bigger man in his gang gave him a stick to bang

Or maybe just hold 'cos no one thought he would kill a man

Till he caught a silly billy villain, chilling in the jam

Sipping cham’ spliff in his hand trigger didn’t jam

Bang bang biddy bang biddy biddy bang

Now he's in the can thinking damn what a pity fam

Rappers are yapping and flapping their lips

Bout how they're packing and clapping their sticks

Has to be big

The impact it has on the kids, tells me where the factory is

The government kill, they're just stacking their chips

You wonder why the yout dem are strapped and their pissed

If not a nine, it's a knife getting jabbed in your ribs

People die for the petrol and gas in our whip

In London, you can get shanked in the heart

Still the government put more tanks in Iraq

Ignorant little spitters are talking greezy

Cos they bitten bits that the saw on TV

If all you rap about is the hoes and the doe

It's already too late, you sold 'em your soul

You jokers act like you know but you don't

'Cos there's little kids dying all over the globe


[Hook: Jon McClure]

They used to beat my lights out and nights out

And days in spent blazing

Didn't help me to navigate ways through the mazes

But why now it's right out amazing to think

Now let the revolutionaries sing

Stand up for your rights and fight for revolution

Free your mind and so ignite constitution

'Cos they're killing us all


[Verse 2: Mic Righteous]

Little man never did exams

He be chillin with his fam in a flat

Spliff in hand and spittin raps

But there's more than one way to skin a cat

Gotta make up for the things he didn't have

Wanna be a dan

Little mans gott bigger plans

Wanna be bigger than jigga and killer cam

Picture that while hes sittin back sippin out a guinness can

Feelin trapped

Done with the chitter chat!

Little man dealing crack for a bit of cash

Put his shit on smash, buildin’ stacks

Livin isn't bad

Untill a cat got in his flat and hit him with a bat

And they found where he hid his stash

Little man fouled it

Get him back now really mad

Feelin militant put on his timberlands and headed to the flat

Where the cats that had jacked him were chillin at

‎Bowl full of gas in his gaff

And lit a match put it in a bad

And away it goes bang!

But the cat's whole family was in the flat

Now it’s definitely defo prison for little man

He could of been one in a million he could've had the whole world in his hands

But shit hit the fan when the cat came back

With his strap pulled the trigger back

Finished little man in a flash, it's a fact

That he's dead now


[Hook: Jon McClure]

They used to beat my lights out on nights out

And days in spent blazing

Didn’t help me to navigate ways through the maze

But why now it's right out amazing to think

Now let the revolutionaries sing

Stand up for your rights and fight for revolution

Free your mind so we can prise constitution

'Cos they're killing us all