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Ladies and gentleman, |
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Welcome to the end of the beginning, |
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My name is |
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Sway, A.k.a |
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Little Derek. |
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And right now, |
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I'm about to take you, |
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To the very beginning, |
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Before the after, |
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Prior to the present, |
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Before the hype, |
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Before the magazines, |
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Before the buzz, |
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And before the mix tape, |
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Back to the blood, sweat and tears. |
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Growing up |
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I had too much on my mind, |
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So I needed a way to get, |
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All of this crap out of my head, |
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So I chose music. |
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This is my beginning, |
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This is my introduction, |
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This is my dream. |
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Listen very carefully, |
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This is my demo. [Sway:] |
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It's da arrival of |
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Decihper, |
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Live from this london dungeon, (Underground) |
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Dats where |
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I've been puttin' it, |
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Down for my people on the, |
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North side, (Get up) |
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East side, (Get up) |
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West side, (Get up) |
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South side, (Get up) |
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Inside, (Yeah) |
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Outside, (Yeah) |
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Get up, Get up, |
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Get up, Get up. |
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Un-der... (Underground) |
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Dats wot I'm sayin yeah? |
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And for years, |
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Dats how long |
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I waited here, |
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And I'm prepared, |
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Back then people never wanted to hear me though, |
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Dats wen I had to shoot a lil video, |
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Now I'm giving you the album, |
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Here we go! |
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Ever since |
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I was a 'lil kid about 6 7 8 9 or 10, |
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I always wanted to be bigga than |
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Big Ben, But dreams can easily come to an end when your livin' in the big l.o.n.d.o.n., |
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The city dat never sleeps so how do we dream? ' |
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Lil kids forced to think like men and the big smoke just gets you lean, |
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To get a good start in life |
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I took a run up instead of pickin' a gun up, |
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I picked up a pen and |
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I shoot for the sky, |
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Run up on the clouds, |
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Dats why I got one up on you clowns, |
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Now I'm becomin da talk of da town, |
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Just yesterday |
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I was walkin around, |
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Tryin to figure out how |
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I'm gonna come up on the crown, |
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Now I'm in the middle when the gathering crowds are sayin: (Sway) |
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The beginning is still in my memory, (Sway) |
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I was sittin' in my school assembely, (Sway) |
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Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me, (Sway) |
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I was thinkin' "will I live to seventy?", (Sway) |
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And if I die will the world remember me? (Sway) |
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Whos my frends and whos my enemys? (Sway) |
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Who will love and who will envy me? (Sway) |
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Now I'm ready for whatever is ment to be. (Sway [x20]) |
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I put my blood sweat and tears in this music, |
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I will not fail, |
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Your listening to, |
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This is my demo. |
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Once upon a time in a place called |
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Harrogate, |
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Lived this average african black kid tryin' to get up in this, (Industry) |
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Flat 23 brook road he would practice rapping rapidly, |
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This rap M |
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C had a lot to say with a little time so he rapped quick, |
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Not to say he never had any frends but he never had many never had a penny to acces the industry, 05/09/82: |
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Flew back to the mother land where he grew flew back to the other land he was too english boy with an african accent, 05/09/92: |
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Using the music rooms at his school recording rythems then he rid 'em with riddles now hes an african boy with an english accent, |
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Now hes twenty two, |
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And your listening too, |
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His first official lp debut, |
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And I got the energy (Uh), |
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I'm not jus' an n. |
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I.g.(Uh), |
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I'm still hungry and |
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I'm eag (Uh), |
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And I'm more ready than |
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I've ever been (Uh), |
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Because I've been persuading this thing from school, |
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Since commodore, |
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Atari and |
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Amiga, Remember me sir? |
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I ain't in it to be number two, |
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Five albums that's what |
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I'm gunna do, |
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Five albums then |
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I'm done, |
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Then I'm through, |
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The enemies (Uhhh), |
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Can bite the dust, |
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This is all before the hype, |
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The buzz, |
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This is all before the wife, |
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The lust, |
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The lies the thugs with knives and guns, |
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It's entertainment for you but it's life for us, |
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It's time to buzz my niggas. (Sway) |
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The beginning is still in my memory, (Sway) |
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I was sittin' in my school assembely, (Sway) |
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Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me, (Sway) |
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I was thinkin' "will I live to seventy?", (Sway) |
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And if I die will the world remember me? (Sway) |
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Whos my frends and whos my enemys? (Sway) |
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Who will love and who will envy me? (Sway) |
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Now I'm ready for whatever is ment to be. (Sway [x20]) |
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I put my blood sweat and tears in this music, |
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I will not fail, |
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Your listening to, |
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This is my demo. { |
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Left side islamic prayer} { |
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Right side christian prayer} |
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I've got angels on my nokia, |
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I'm out here and |
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I got no fear, |
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No foes or no phobias, |
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So all those plottin' with the obeahs, |
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And voodoo deres no hope for yah, |
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Hang yourself |
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I got rope for yah, |
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I said deres no hope for yah, |
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Hang yourself |
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I got rope for yah, ' |
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Cause God would never let the devil harm any |
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G's, And when |
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I'm in the dark read psalms twenty three, |
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I'm trying to do good on the path for the beasts, |
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A place where the bad boys are the police, |
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Trapped in between the imman and the priest, |
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And I can't see, |
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If I'm gonna be in the |
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Church with a cross around my neck, |
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Or in a Mosque with a |
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Quran and a palm full of beads. (Sway) |
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The beginning is still in my memory, (Sway) |
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I was sittin' in my school assembely, (Sway) |
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Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me, (Sway) |
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I was thinkin' "will I live to seventy?", (Sway) |
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And if I die will the world remember me? (Sway) |
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Whos my frends and whos my enemys? (Sway) |
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Who will love and who will envy me? (Sway) |
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Now I'm ready for whatever is ment to be. (Sway [x20]) |
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I put my blood sweat and tears in this music, |
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I will not fail, |
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Your listening to, |
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This is my demo. |
