Dave, Joe Reeves, James Blake - Heart Attack lyrics

Knife crimes is at a near-record high
With more than forty blade offenses
Every day in London
At a youth club in South London not far from
Where someone was stabbed less
Than twenty-four hours ago
The outline to a direct
Link between violent crimes
Social exclusion and austerity
A study by City Hall found that
London has seen an increase
In 71% in victims of serious
Youth violence since 2012
The Mayor says this is linked
To an increase in poverty
And the highest rates of violence take placе
In some of the poorest boroughs

Look, I bеt them boys think I'm panickin'
Check what my young Gs are carrying
His blade same length as a javelin


I don't know about B ball or what's happenin'
But know that it's fucked if he's
Travellin' and we see him
I can't lie, I was depressed at phases
I was nineteen when the team
Nearly left him faceless
Hopin' that we never left no traces
You know when you're so damn
Tired in your house
But you can't sleep cah you got pendin' cases
I used to love temptin' fate
But now it's temptin' faces
For half my career I was part of that
My best friend got a burner
And it's lookin' like a artifact
Put it in your puffer or your Prada hat
Like fuck panic, that's a heart attack
Yeah, it's like
Life's so fucked in the time that we're in
We're fightin' the world
And we're fightin' within
Somali dad ran away from a war
Now his son's in a war
That's the cycle we're in
I know niggas that didn't do time in a bin
That have never had freedom of mind
Are you sick?
'Round here main way to provide for your kin
Is in a flick blade
Little push-bike and a sim
In London a place where it's nicer to live
Is only five minutes out from
The guys on the strip
Where man make yay' work, heard he a soldier
I know that nigga hasn't got
Balls like Grey Worm
As I grow older, change of perspective
I gotta stay loyal to my girl
That's the trait she was blessed with
Restaurants, raves with my bredrins
Life's too short, so we gotta turn up
Man talk on my ting for the 'Gram
It's intrusive
I never really thought 'bout taking a life
'Til I found out my ex-girl's dad is abusive
I felt "How could I be a
Man and not do shit?"
I'm on the way there now
And I don't wanna lose it
But fightin' her battle's only
Hurtin' the girl
How can I protect her from the world
When I couldn't even protect her from myself?
On my grandmother's grave, shit happens again
I put a knife through a family friend
Most the women that I know
Had shit happen to them
So innocent 'til guilty
Ain't somethin' that I have to respect
I think back to my youth
And I was so ungrateful
How many of our parents
Had dreams they abandoned
So they could put food on the table?
Intelligent, worthy and able
That's somebody's parent you know?
And that affected the way that I see shit
Night club toilet, you peed on the seat
'Cause you don't know how it feels
When your mum's gotta clean shit
And her boss treats her like
She don't even mean shit
And she gotta wait for the bus
In the rain and it's freezin'
And Miss said that you would never be shit
And you don't wanna cry about dad
But you need him i grew up so fucked
But I didn't even deep it
I'm numb to the feelin' of grievin'
And man gettin' birded
African mums on the floor, just screamin'
It's mad 'cah I try so hard
Death's got to be easy, cah life's so hard
I was twelve wishin' that I was a white man
Hard 'Cah if I was then they
Probably wouldn't life mans dargs
I was dead broke, fam
I couldn't swipe mans card
And time might pass
But I still gotta stay with it
It wasn't his beef
But I see him try claimin' it
That's why he caught a bullet with
Another man's name on it
Now he can't do leg day or put strain on it
Every time you hear me freestyle
I put pain in it
I used to wonder "Does God have favorites?"
Touch me, it's dangerous
I wouldn't play with it
'Cause you can go sleep
And have a different type of wake for it
I miss my dawgs, unstable
You violate Chris? Then rah
Turn Chris Benoit have him hit from far, nah
Fill 'em up with bricks and glass, nah
My young G's will grip, then blast
Have you tried in the street
Fuck findin' my feet i could ride
But it's better when I'm ridin' a beat
My emotions are peak
It ain't a sign of defeat or the weak
I would've you, then cried in my sleep
Dropped Juss two racks and told
Him "Buy the machine"
I'm LeBron in Miami, I provide for the heat
God strike me if I'm lyin'
I ain't cryin' in this beef
Unless the tears comin' tatted on
The side of my cheek i provide for my peeps
The Lamb' white in the seats
So I'm literally a wolf disguised in a sheep
You have five figure dreams
I have five figure sleep
Five hours more than enough time that I need
Man want a fair fight
But I ain't on it when we see him
Fuck honour, this revolver is onomatopoeic
Let it "Stut tut tut tut tut
Tut-ter" when you see him free Scalez
Free C and free my niggas 'til I see 'em
I wouldn't wanna be him
My OG's roamin', I don't need a colosseum
You see it? So I'm playin' it good
Let hood politics stay in the hood
Fuck the Internet
You see this new generation
They're Insta-beefing and I
Ain't into speakin' when I ducked down
I had him runnin' in a lift
Like he missed a meetin'
There's no good reason to risk your freedom
The yutes dem snitch and
Them bitches sneakin'
She don't wanna talk 'bout friendships
She just wanna deal with the
Pipe like I'm fixin' leakin'
And sleep with a legend like Chrissy Teigen
Where I'm from the word "Life"
Has a different meanin'
Man smile in your face
But them niggas schemin'
Try involve me in a flakey dealin'
Sistine Chapel, I'ma paint the ceilin'
I been violated and I hate the feelin'
That's why nowadays man hates the preachin'
We smile in the visit, cah we ain't defeated
The Supreme Court's where my mates appealin'
I can't breed that girl, that's torture
South London, it's just slags on the corner
And influencers tryna bag them a baller
She a gold-digger, I can tell from her aura
Her socials say princess, she a pauper
When it's time for it
Need more for my daughter call me a talker
But man are gettin' lined like
Lambs in the slaughter
It's life-threatening and I can
Tell from the borer cut through a nigga like
A knife through flora
Feds got the guys on a case and they stalk us
It's a conspiracy like tinfoil hats
And a new world order
Touch me, you better have a life insurer
Blood thirsty, I got sharks in the water
And trust me, I know a killer well, no orca
Have you ever seen a
Nightmare brought to life? Where I'm from
You get cheffed on a normal night
Men talk on my name, but it's porkie pies
I'll really put it in a
Prick like a porcupine
Little bro wanna save for a 45
Go board a flight, there's more to life
Yutes on the M6 all the time
We don't need TFL for a northern line
All the best politicians been taught to lie
Where do they buy cocaine
When they're snorting white?
Are their dealers safe or on the borderline?
It's ironic
Cah we don't know where to draw the line
Man see Blue Story, they're mortified
Man see Scarface and it's glorified
'Cause when you're black
Everything gets scrutinised
That's why they call it "Urban"
It gets euphemised
South London, man are gettin' euthanised
I see a yute's demise, I wasn't too surprised
He got soaked but his right hand scuba dived
Don't die by a sword that you used to shine
You can drown for your king
You don't know about Ophelia
Cah we got iron, I don't know about anaemia
I took the hard road
We don't know 'bout the easier
One bag of whores and drug paraphernalia
When ends got sticky, had
A flicky with Emelia, i mean Olivia
This ain't Libya, this ain't Syria
You act sillier
We let it seep in your skin like Nivea
Who wants to be a millionaire? I won it
Never done a gameshow or trivia
I done Wandsworth, Erlestoke visitor
I done Springhill, Grendon
Swinfen, Whitemoor, Swaleside
Brixton visitor i done M-way trips
Done shit that I wish I never did
Becah I could have been a prisoner
Is this the shit that
Appeals to the listeners?
Road ain't no amazing life
The ends full of snakes and jails
Just a waste of time
I tell my young G's "Take your time"
Fuck Jazz, you can really see a major nine
Yo, I'm so ashamed of how
I used to get figures
Man sell you a dream like the road ting's lit
And then they leave out the parts
Where you're burying your niggas or in jail
Wonderin' who's puttin' dick inside your Mrs
I'm so fuckin' determined
I was in intensive care when I was born
Mummy fell down the stairs
Whether I was gonna live or
Not was somethin' uncertain
I used the word "Fell"
With the commas inverted
You see, growin' up I had it far from perfect
But nobody did, so I'm a normal person
I gotta be grateful
We all have demons and all see angels
Or maybe it's me
A black yute's more than a face on a screen
A number on a laptop or name on a sheet
We got stories to tell and got places to be
From my heart, that's the makin' of me
I was selling, look, I was selling tomatoes
I sell, my legs hurts
I struggled 'cause I didn't
Want to suffer again
I just wanted, it just make me so upset
Three times I tried
I went to Hannover, they sent me back
I tried so much, he has not seen anything yet
I was in detention camps for
Months at the end, i didn't give up
I was not even twenty when I left Africa
I was determined to survive
I was determined to succeed
I didn't know anybody
Nobody was ready to help me
Even when you were born
You were six weeks old, this
One is not even Africa, it's this nation
I was on the streets for three years
I have three babies in my hand
Nobody let me in, nobody in this nation
I couldn't pay my rent
Deported gangsters carried-
I didn't give up
I carried my babies everywhere
And now this is how you pay me back
For all those pain that I go through
Everyday I lay in my bed, I'm in pain
You see what he's doing to me
You want to kill me, you want to kill me