[Verse 1 - Chester P]

They're talkin' like they've lived my life

Done the things I've done

Felt the pain I can't leave behind

'Cus as a kid I lost my innocence young

I was 9 when I started doin' all the things I shouldn'ta done

I was 9 when I breathed the first smoke in my lungs

I was 9 when I got forced to break into drums

I was 9 when I realised we're livin' on crumbs

At school we just cuss and didn't learn none

Aged 12 I was playin' in the slums with a junkie

Watchin' him fill up his arm with suttin' fuckery

Aged 13 I was out on a earner

Or walkin' train tracks while my friends did burners

At 15 I was sellin' hash in them slim bags

Some cat came for my stash I got kidnapped

I was just a shook lil boy when I think back

Aged 17 I was livin' outta tin cans

Drinkin' like George Best

Venomous to policemen

Chest like a pigeons

Rest with a big gang

Some friends fell to the fate of a cold blade

Some friends fell to the ways of old cocaine

It's a slow train, old Nick smilin'

Souls in the mix where we just keep tryin'

Aged 27 and I'm still here tryin'

With far more scars and far more science

[Hook]

Yo my heart aches deep because we can't save the world

Is life in a jail like, life in a cell block (lights out!)

Coppers who shot without a warning (we in a hellhole!)

No it's a new day dawning

My heart aches deep because we can't save the world

Is life in a jail like, life in a cell block (lights out!)

Coppers who shot without a warning

[Verse 2 - Farma G]

I always wondered what my life's worth

And crash landing on the streets stir the feelings of beef

That's why I stay hurt

'Cus as a kid I had a lot of fun

But nowadays I walk around with the knowledge that I'm on the run

Thirteen saw me losing my faith

'Cus my parents never told me there'd be so much hate

And my world caved in

As my childhood left me

Thirteen years fade away as a memory

I cried "Don't leave me, the future's too scary

The kids are too hard, I want my toy cars"

But the scars were inflicted

From shit I would witness

Licks I would take 'cus it's survival of the fittest

So I grew with an attitude

Forgot love as a youth

I walked around with tools I knew I wouldn't use

I saw my old friend stabbed but we never knew

How much damage a steel blade can really do

So we learnt from the street burns

Burned 'cus the streets lessons learnt the hard way

It always burns

In my heart I'm gonna pray for the kids

'Cus there's guns in the playground

And drugs on the high street

It takes the pick of the bunch to survive the crunch

I pray now and tomorrow that I survive the munch

And all we wish is for a brand new day

In a place where the kids grow up with no pain

[Hook]

Yo my heart aches deep because we can't save the world

Is life in a jail like, life in a cell block (lights out!)

Coppers who shot without a warning (we in a hellhole!)

No it's a new day dawning

My heart aches deep because we can't save the world

Is life in a jail like, life in a cell block (lights out!)

Coppers who shot without a warning (we in a hellhole!)

No it's a new day dawning