Skepta - Castles Lyrics
[Intro][Hook: Riff Raff and Skepta]As the days keep turningAs the world keeps burningAs my soul keeps learningTears fall from the castles around my heart[Verse 1: Skepta]My teacher told me I'm a side man, I told her to remember meNow they wanna email me, asking if I can talk to the kids in assemblyNow man are selling out WembleyNow man are twenty first centuryStatistics say I should be dead or in jailBut shit ain't the way that it's meant to beBreaking the cycleThey wish I was trapped in the systemA 6 foot tall black guy like meThat would've been a rap in an instantThat's why I gotta speak my mind, I'mma say how it is and I never say sorryKeep quiet like Winston and Tracy fam - over my dead bodyx2[Verse 2: Skepta]Too much TV, too many newspapers got a nigga thinking evilGot me thinking I'm looking at my enemy when I'm looking at my own peopleNotice when a white man looks at my watch I think he's trying to pay me a complimentWhen a black man looks at my watch I think he's trying to knock my confidence (Mad)I was in Amsterdam smoking blue cheese and I had an epiphanyAll these negative preconceptions just bring more negativityInstead of investing in new businesses they buy new artilleryEverybody in the hood wants to spray a 16 and I don't mean lyricallyUnderdog psychosis spreading around in the hood like fluSecurity guards follow me around like I ain't got £2 to pay for my juiceNow all this bullshit got me smoking this stupid zootTell Boris he's lucky that I made it rapping or I would've been looting tooNiggas ain't got GCSEs still don't wanna work for a minimum wageThese days man will murder a man for a box of gradeEvery time the .38 barrel spins Martin Luther turns in the graveIt's real life, no computer game, we're living in the streets of rage[Hook]
