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Next Of Kin Lyrics

Song Next Of Kin
Artist Ghetts
Artist Rukhsana Merrise
Artist Ghetto Gospel Choir
Artist Confect
Album Ghetto Gospel: The New Testament
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[00:00.462][Verse 1: Ghetts]
[00:09.408] The mum don't speak
[00:10.672] She had a front row seat to her son going sleep for eternity
[00:13.867] One don’t see what don't concern me
[00:15.607] But she opened up to me personally and I show her love 'cause it burns me
[00:18.932] Nobody’s mum don't deserve this
[00:21.194] Over some drugs it's disturbing
[00:22.940] He ain't no angel, But I ain't so perfect
[00:24.858] And I see my mum in his mum like she birthed me
[00:27.168]
[00:27.633][Bridge: Confect]
[00:27.872] Memories gold and cursed
[00:29.175] Other people around us
[00:32.034] Money ain't everything
[00:36.623] I call on blessings
[00:38.862] Not just for me but
[00:41.081] Protecting my next of kin
[00:43.890] You know, my bros
[00:44.646]
[00:44.865][Verse 2: Ghetts]
[00:45.472] She told me I resemble him - eyes, nose and everything
[00:48.060] Went the same school, but I don't remember him
[00:50.288] He was much younger
[00:51.451] And I was probably there before the psycho had settled in
[00:53.709] Five-O arrested him
[00:54.962] Same book, I know the story too well
[00:57.230] 20-20, I already saw it too well
[00:59.376] These man are checking scoreboard, they wanna war and do well
[01:01.473] It's never called for, even when it’s afforded you well
[01:03.795] So I know what’s happening today
[01:05.926] Can't turn the cheek when they slap me in my face
[01:08.201] Just like the wars you label off of
[01:10.882] Everybody’s playing the blame game, it's your fault
[01:13.229] Generations down the line
[01:14.766] We've forgotten how it started
[01:16.109] Man are just hopping out of cars with tools and popping out apartments
[01:19.542] Mummy don't understand the logic in this carnage
[01:21.801] We falls, and possibly our fathers
[01:24.229] Must be a robber or an arsonist
[01:26.354] Well I have been a robber in the past tense
[01:28.197] Festival seasons, soon, come on, coming like Robin when I pass tents
[01:31.866] She said I sound like her son did
[01:33.441] I said I wish I could’ve met him 'cause he sounds like the one kid
[01:36.564] I probably could've reached before a gun did
[01:38.101]
[01:38.972][Bridge: Confect]
[01:40.826] Life is like a candle in the wind
[01:42.960] Don't protect me and my friends
[01:45.336] There's a beauty hidden in the mess
[01:47.605] Help me see heaven in the end
[01:49.759] Appreciate the ones we have left
[01:52.093] Long as everyone's blessed
[01:54.248] Only thing that matters in the end
[01:56.541]
[01:57.120][Verse 3: Rukhsana Merrise]
[02:03.578] I know you're probably thinking
[02:05.523] Who's calling?
[02:07.991] 'Cause I know it's late, I've run out of places to run to
[02:12.235] But this couldn't wait
[02:13.515] 'Cause I miss my baby
[02:15.182] No, you can't replace, no, you couldn't save him
[02:18.383]Blame me instead, 'cause [?]
[02:21.238] Pick your fights, or pick your flight
[02:24.297] We're the only ones who can lose your life
[02:26.364] I'm on my way, I'm on my car
[02:28.506] We're the only ones who can lose your love
[02:30.802]
[02:37.055][Verse 4: Ghetts]
[02:40.524] I called out for my mum with my last breath (mama, mama)
[02:45.062] Now I'm just another son in a casket
[02:47.973] And mummy wants answers
[02:48.783] She don't have a clue why I deserve this
[02:51.103] She probably think I died a virgin
[02:54.862] But I was riding, lurking
[02:57.792] Firing, bursting
[02:58.574] And now the beef's squashed, I been gone for a decade
[03:01.039] No-one comes to the cemetery regularly
[03:03.110] For the block I lick shots like Pelé
[03:05.522] But now I'm just a distant memory, if anything
[03:07.728] Mum's the only one who stopped living when I did
[03:09.587] Most my bruddas got sons and they live in the nice bit
[03:11.935] They took the drugs and the guns and put it behind 'em
[03:14.139] But nobody reps for the hood like I did
[03:16.519][Bridge: Confect]
[03:16.831] Memories gold and cursed
[03:18.422] Other people around us
[03:21.152] Money ain't everything
[03:25.788]
[03:26.424][Sample: Peter Kirkham]
[03:50.404] “I really don't understand why they are not treating this as the emergency that it is.
[03:54.937] It's a public disaster happening in slow motion in front of our eyes.
[03:59.271] If these young people were white and they were on the streets of Maidenhead in her constituency and in Windsor,
[04:08.225] there would be an utter uproar. It would not be ignored.
[04:12.887] This is institutional racism at the heart of Government. – It's a simple as that.”
[04:16.357]
[04:16.859][Outro: Singing Soul Sirens]
[04:17.532] Help me see heaven in the end
[04:19.503] Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:21.779] Long as everyone's blessed
[04:24.058] Only thing that matters in the end
[04:26.480] Help protect me and my friends
[04:28.181] Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:30.761] Long as everyone's blessed
[04:32.975] Only thing that matters in the end
[04:35.549] Help protect me and my friends
[04:37.804] Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:40.051] Long as everyone's blessed
[04:42.316] Only thing that matters in the end
[00:00.462][Verse 1: Ghetts]
[00:09.408] The mum don' t speak
[00:10.672] She had a front row seat to her son going sleep for eternity
[00:13.867] One don' t see what don' t concern me
[00:15.607] But she opened up to me personally and I show her love ' cause it burns me
[00:18.932] Nobody' s mum don' t deserve this
[00:21.194] Over some drugs it' s disturbing
[00:22.940] He ain' t no angel, But I ain' t so perfect
[00:24.858] And I see my mum in his mum like she birthed me
[00:27.168]
[00:27.633][Bridge: Confect]
[00:27.872] Memories gold and cursed
[00:29.175] Other people around us
[00:32.034] Money ain' t everything
[00:36.623] I call on blessings
[00:38.862] Not just for me but
[00:41.081] Protecting my next of kin
[00:43.890] You know, my bros
[00:44.646]
[00:44.865][Verse 2: Ghetts]
[00:45.472] She told me I resemble him eyes, nose and everything
[00:48.060] Went the same school, but I don' t remember him
[00:50.288] He was much younger
[00:51.451] And I was probably there before the psycho had settled in
[00:53.709] FiveO arrested him
[00:54.962] Same book, I know the story too well
[00:57.230] 2020, I already saw it too well
[00:59.376] These man are checking scoreboard, they wanna war and do well
[01:01.473] It' s never called for, even when it' s afforded you well
[01:03.795] So I know what' s happening today
[01:05.926] Can' t turn the cheek when they slap me in my face
[01:08.201] Just like the wars you label off of
[01:10.882] Everybody' s playing the blame game, it' s your fault
[01:13.229] Generations down the line
[01:14.766] We' ve forgotten how it started
[01:16.109] Man are just hopping out of cars with tools and popping out apartments
[01:19.542] Mummy don' t understand the logic in this carnage
[01:21.801] We falls, and possibly our fathers
[01:24.229] Must be a robber or an arsonist
[01:26.354] Well I have been a robber in the past tense
[01:28.197] Festival seasons, soon, come on, coming like Robin when I pass tents
[01:31.866] She said I sound like her son did
[01:33.441] I said I wish I could' ve met him ' cause he sounds like the one kid
[01:36.564] I probably could' ve reached before a gun did
[01:38.101]
[01:38.972][Bridge: Confect]
[01:40.826] Life is like a candle in the wind
[01:42.960] Don' t protect me and my friends
[01:45.336] There' s a beauty hidden in the mess
[01:47.605] Help me see heaven in the end
[01:49.759] Appreciate the ones we have left
[01:52.093] Long as everyone' s blessed
[01:54.248] Only thing that matters in the end
[01:56.541]
[01:57.120][Verse 3: Rukhsana Merrise]
[02:03.578] I know you' re probably thinking
[02:05.523] Who' s calling?
[02:07.991] ' Cause I know it' s late, I' ve run out of places to run to
[02:12.235] But this couldn' t wait
[02:13.515] ' Cause I miss my baby
[02:15.182] No, you can' t replace, no, you couldn' t save him
[02:18.383]Blame me instead, 'cause [?]
[02:21.238] Pick your fights, or pick your flight
[02:24.297] We' re the only ones who can lose your life
[02:26.364] I' m on my way, I' m on my car
[02:28.506] We' re the only ones who can lose your love
[02:30.802]
[02:37.055][Verse 4: Ghetts]
[02:40.524] I called out for my mum with my last breath mama, mama
[02:45.062] Now I' m just another son in a casket
[02:47.973] And mummy wants answers
[02:48.783] She don' t have a clue why I deserve this
[02:51.103] She probably think I died a virgin
[02:54.862] But I was riding, lurking
[02:57.792] Firing, bursting
[02:58.574] And now the beef' s squashed, I been gone for a decade
[03:01.039] Noone comes to the cemetery regularly
[03:03.110] For the block I lick shots like Pele
[03:05.522] But now I' m just a distant memory, if anything
[03:07.728] Mum' s the only one who stopped living when I did
[03:09.587] Most my bruddas got sons and they live in the nice bit
[03:11.935] They took the drugs and the guns and put it behind ' em
[03:14.139] But nobody reps for the hood like I did
[03:16.519][Bridge: Confect]
[03:16.831] Memories gold and cursed
[03:18.422] Other people around us
[03:21.152] Money ain' t everything
[03:25.788]
[03:26.424][Sample: Peter Kirkham]
[03:50.404] " I really don' t understand why they are not treating this as the emergency that it is.
[03:54.937] It' s a public disaster happening in slow motion in front of our eyes.
[03:59.271] If these young people were white and they were on the streets of Maidenhead in her constituency and in Windsor,
[04:08.225] there would be an utter uproar. It would not be ignored.
[04:12.887] This is institutional racism at the heart of Government. It' s a simple as that."
[04:16.357]
[04:16.859][Outro: Singing Soul Sirens]
[04:17.532] Help me see heaven in the end
[04:19.503] Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:21.779] Long as everyone' s blessed
[04:24.058] Only thing that matters in the end
[04:26.480] Help protect me and my friends
[04:28.181] Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:30.761] Long as everyone' s blessed
[04:32.975] Only thing that matters in the end
[04:35.549] Help protect me and my friends
[04:37.804] Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:40.051] Long as everyone' s blessed
[04:42.316] Only thing that matters in the end
[00:00.462][Verse 1: Ghetts]
[00:09.408] The mum don' t speak
[00:10.672] She had a front row seat to her son going sleep for eternity
[00:13.867] One don' t see what don' t concern me
[00:15.607] But she opened up to me personally and I show her love ' cause it burns me
[00:18.932] Nobody' s mum don' t deserve this
[00:21.194] Over some drugs it' s disturbing
[00:22.940] He ain' t no angel, But I ain' t so perfect
[00:24.858] And I see my mum in his mum like she birthed me
[00:27.168]
[00:27.633][Bridge: Confect]
[00:27.872] Memories gold and cursed
[00:29.175] Other people around us
[00:32.034] Money ain' t everything
[00:36.623] I call on blessings
[00:38.862] Not just for me but
[00:41.081] Protecting my next of kin
[00:43.890] You know, my bros
[00:44.646]
[00:44.865][Verse 2: Ghetts]
[00:45.472] She told me I resemble him eyes, nose and everything
[00:48.060] Went the same school, but I don' t remember him
[00:50.288] He was much younger
[00:51.451] And I was probably there before the psycho had settled in
[00:53.709] FiveO arrested him
[00:54.962] Same book, I know the story too well
[00:57.230] 2020, I already saw it too well
[00:59.376] These man are checking scoreboard, they wanna war and do well
[01:01.473] It' s never called for, even when it' s afforded you well
[01:03.795] So I know what' s happening today
[01:05.926] Can' t turn the cheek when they slap me in my face
[01:08.201] Just like the wars you label off of
[01:10.882] Everybody' s playing the blame game, it' s your fault
[01:13.229] Generations down the line
[01:14.766] We' ve forgotten how it started
[01:16.109] Man are just hopping out of cars with tools and popping out apartments
[01:19.542] Mummy don' t understand the logic in this carnage
[01:21.801] We falls, and possibly our fathers
[01:24.229] Must be a robber or an arsonist
[01:26.354] Well I have been a robber in the past tense
[01:28.197] Festival seasons, soon, come on, coming like Robin when I pass tents
[01:31.866] She said I sound like her son did
[01:33.441] I said I wish I could' ve met him ' cause he sounds like the one kid
[01:36.564] I probably could' ve reached before a gun did
[01:38.101]
[01:38.972][Bridge: Confect]
[01:40.826] Life is like a candle in the wind
[01:42.960] Don' t protect me and my friends
[01:45.336] There' s a beauty hidden in the mess
[01:47.605] Help me see heaven in the end
[01:49.759] Appreciate the ones we have left
[01:52.093] Long as everyone' s blessed
[01:54.248] Only thing that matters in the end
[01:56.541]
[01:57.120][Verse 3: Rukhsana Merrise]
[02:03.578] I know you' re probably thinking
[02:05.523] Who' s calling?
[02:07.991] ' Cause I know it' s late, I' ve run out of places to run to
[02:12.235] But this couldn' t wait
[02:13.515] ' Cause I miss my baby
[02:15.182] No, you can' t replace, no, you couldn' t save him
[02:18.383]Blame me instead, 'cause [?]
[02:21.238] Pick your fights, or pick your flight
[02:24.297] We' re the only ones who can lose your life
[02:26.364] I' m on my way, I' m on my car
[02:28.506] We' re the only ones who can lose your love
[02:30.802]
[02:37.055][Verse 4: Ghetts]
[02:40.524] I called out for my mum with my last breath mama, mama
[02:45.062] Now I' m just another son in a casket
[02:47.973] And mummy wants answers
[02:48.783] She don' t have a clue why I deserve this
[02:51.103] She probably think I died a virgin
[02:54.862] But I was riding, lurking
[02:57.792] Firing, bursting
[02:58.574] And now the beef' s squashed, I been gone for a decade
[03:01.039] Noone comes to the cemetery regularly
[03:03.110] For the block I lick shots like Pelé
[03:05.522] But now I' m just a distant memory, if anything
[03:07.728] Mum' s the only one who stopped living when I did
[03:09.587] Most my bruddas got sons and they live in the nice bit
[03:11.935] They took the drugs and the guns and put it behind ' em
[03:14.139] But nobody reps for the hood like I did
[03:16.519][Bridge: Confect]
[03:16.831] Memories gold and cursed
[03:18.422] Other people around us
[03:21.152] Money ain' t everything
[03:25.788]
[03:26.424][Sample: Peter Kirkham]
[03:50.404] " I really don' t understand why they are not treating this as the emergency that it is.
[03:54.937] It' s a public disaster happening in slow motion in front of our eyes.
[03:59.271] If these young people were white and they were on the streets of Maidenhead in her constituency and in Windsor,
[04:08.225] there would be an utter uproar. It would not be ignored.
[04:12.887] This is institutional racism at the heart of Government. It' s a simple as that."
[04:16.357]
[04:16.859][Outro: Singing Soul Sirens]
[04:17.532] Help me see heaven in the end
[04:19.503] Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:21.779] Long as everyone' s blessed
[04:24.058] Only thing that matters in the end
[04:26.480] Help protect me and my friends
[04:28.181] Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:30.761] Long as everyone' s blessed
[04:32.975] Only thing that matters in the end
[04:35.549] Help protect me and my friends
[04:37.804] Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:40.051] Long as everyone' s blessed
[04:42.316] Only thing that matters in the end
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