Music: Samuel Joseph/Kaddel Durowoju/Malik Marland
I paid the price
Too busy living life in the fast lane
Ignored the lights
And now i'm over here with this heart pain
I paid the price
Too busy living life in the fast lane
Ignored the lights
And now i'm over here with this heart pain
I've been
Drinking and smoking
Smoking and drinking
And when I get in this position I slowly start thinking
I'm in no condition to waste time, too many ambitions
So I do this with my team and we push to the limit
I wear my heart upon my sleeve, can see it beating on my arm
I'll be living through these writings, and I barely use my palms
They do it for a rollie, but we do it for the craft
Reconnected with the old me
I heard Manik when he told me
Breathe deep
Then breathe out
Rebel with a wrong cause, like Rowdy I reroute
I connect with some masters, I'm feeling like Steve Stoute
I'm talking about my G's, my brothers that been down
But meanwhile
I wonder where time goes
Cause it was only yesterday that I was on the highroad
Sister holding my hand
Mummy pushing a pram
I'm entering my prime
I realised it's borrowed time
God I finally understand
I paid the price
Too busy living life in the fast lane
Ignored the lights
And now i'm over here with this heart pain
I paid the price
Too busy living life in the fast lane
Ignored the lights
And now i'm over here with this heart pain
Ayo it's daytime
London city crouching under grey skies
Used to jump out of school to serve fiends during playtime
Yo, me and mines are tryna take time to take time
The snakes still gossiping, profiting off the grapevine
For real
Still out here tryna build
Been twisting up these words, tryna see what they reveal
Been seeking somethin' real
Not knowing what that means
Disappear into the east
I took a couple years to breathe and find peace
So don't tell me i'm not trying, I'm just stuck in a rut
Yo, stick in the beat and gimme the mic
And i'll be ****ing it up
Never hesitated, fixated
They say love is a drug
Sometimes no matter how hard you try blud
Love ain't enough
Thoughts bubbling up
Mumzie told me aim for the sky
Another blank page staring back vacant and white
With all this smoking and this drinking
I been chasing the highs
I spill my soul into these rhymes
Now i'm paying the price
I paid the price
Too busy living life in the fast lane
Ignored the lights
And now i'm over here with this heart pain
I paid the price
Too busy living life in the fast lane
Ignored the lights
And now i'm over here with this heart pain