Lyrics: Stephen Atutolu
Music: Diggy Dupe/Christopher James
My nana busing every morning
Head to the casino
Yeah
Spending her pension on the pokies
Bet on bingo
Let me set the scene for-
All of y’all
She was scratching cards
Dreams of living large
Always getting keno.
And she never went to church
Instead that money in her purse
Went straight to the place where my mama worked
Y’all don’t hear me see
My mama was dealing cards
Provide people appealing odds
And we would feel the loss
At dinner time
Cause ain’t no meal to maul.
I get it,
Ain’t a problem if you spend to vent
But there’s a problem if you often got to spend the rent
Drowning deep in Credit debt
Cracking when the Pressure gets
Too real for ya
I feel for ya
The brokest ones always want the quickest dollar
Gambling establishments always got the thickest margin
Playing with ultimatums
Just so all the rich could prosper
One percenters paying poker blinds with houses yo
And still I’m starving
Talking
Chorus:
Cuppa tea and toast
In the winter time
Cuppa tea and toast
When it’s dinner time
Cuppa tea and toast
Warming up my soul
Cuppa tea and toast
After school
Yo that’s all we know
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Verse 2:
Every Saturday my poppa bought a lotto-
Ticket,
Gotta be in it to win it,
That’s his motto-
listen.
He would sit there thinking, dreaming bout some hollow-
Wishes,
But realities the hardest pill to swallow-
Swig it
(Yeah yeah)
You see he died before he ever got that first division
Or even a fraction of his purchased tickets
No certain winning in this game of life
That’s why I don’t gamble my money
I handle my money
Invest and plan wit my money
Learn and expand wit my money
But
Nobody ever taught us money management
Or how to handle it when all the money come
Praying for a lucky run
My cousin on the benefit
He spend it quick
To get his chips
To try n double money up
Dreaming of things that’ll never be a reality
Feeding machines instead of feeding their families
Oh well
It is what it is
Tea bags and sugar in the cupboard
Milk & Butter’s in the fridge
I’m talking
Chorus:
Cuppa tea and toast
In the winter time
Cuppa tea and toast
when it’s dinner time
Cuppa tea and toast
Warming up my soul
Cuppa tea and toast
After school
Yo that’s all we know
x2