Dizzee Rascal - Imagine lyrics
[Dizzee Rascal - Imagine lyrics]
Imagine if I showed you one day
I was leaving the hood
Would you call me a sellout? Would
You say it's all good?
Would you follow if you could?
Or would you just tell me get the hell out?
And imagine if I showed you
That I found another way
Of getting dough without doing
Dirt - let's blurt
Would you love me for giving me some hope
Or resent me cos your pride got hurt?
Imagine if we never grew up
On a council estate
And was country manor raised with
A spoon in our mouth
Would we still be making fuss about
The East and the South
Would we shiver at the robberies
Murder and the crack
And thank god that we didn't
Have to live like that
Just the image on the TV
As we're comfortably sat
Sipping wine, room lit by the summer sunshine
Not a worry in the world as we casually chat
Oblivious to how we would be
Living on the flipside
No experience, not a clue about a rough ride
No harassment, no boy dem on our backside
That would be amazing, still
I know you wonder would make
You any less real?
What's the current spot you're standing in
Offering? If you had a better offer would
You go for the kill?
Snap out of your daydream, how do you feel?
Does it all seem worthwhile for ya?
Try and put it in perspective
Retrospective of your profile and your honour
Do you wanna hang about, or are you a goner?
Come along, think fast, it's decision time
You've been living in the grime
Don't you wanna climb?
The ladder of life, the wall of enlightenment
Or are you looking for
The hype and excitement?
Cos with so much drama in the LDN
It's kind of hard trying to
Find legal money to spend
Generation genocide looks possible
The rate at which we draw
For the skeng and pretend
That we don't know who the real enemy is
Who should be held responsible
Instead we defend
A couple square meters of pavement
In the end
What would be achieved my friends?
I was leaving the hood
Would you call me a sellout? Would
You say it's all good?
Would you follow if you could?
Or would you just tell me get the hell out?
And imagine if I showed you
That I found another way
Of getting dough without doing
Dirt - let's blurt
Would you love me for giving me some hope
Or resent me cos your pride got hurt?
Imagine if we never grew up
On a council estate
And was country manor raised with
A spoon in our mouth
Would we still be making fuss about
The East and the South
Would we shiver at the robberies
Murder and the crack
And thank god that we didn't
Have to live like that
Just the image on the TV
As we're comfortably sat
Sipping wine, room lit by the summer sunshine
Not a worry in the world as we casually chat
Oblivious to how we would be
Living on the flipside
No experience, not a clue about a rough ride
No harassment, no boy dem on our backside
That would be amazing, still
I know you wonder would make
You any less real?
What's the current spot you're standing in
Offering? If you had a better offer would
You go for the kill?
Snap out of your daydream, how do you feel?
Does it all seem worthwhile for ya?
Try and put it in perspective
Retrospective of your profile and your honour
Do you wanna hang about, or are you a goner?
Come along, think fast, it's decision time
You've been living in the grime
Don't you wanna climb?
The ladder of life, the wall of enlightenment
Or are you looking for
The hype and excitement?
Cos with so much drama in the LDN
It's kind of hard trying to
Find legal money to spend
Generation genocide looks possible
The rate at which we draw
For the skeng and pretend
That we don't know who the real enemy is
Who should be held responsible
Instead we defend
A couple square meters of pavement
In the end
What would be achieved my friends?