Lowkey - Rise and Fall lyrics

Back in the days
I had dreams of rapping on stage
Imagined listening to radio when my
Track would get played
It's tragic I never fathomed that
The magic would fade
Lets take it back to the days
When I established my name
I was over hungry for beats
Like the melody was something to eat
Bars a 100 a week was nothing to me
Long as I had something deep to
Crush a sucker and see
I won battles but in a
Couple I fumbled suffered defeats
I was grinding hard
Way harder than other artists did
At 17 on Choice FM
I went bar for bar with Swiss
Lyrics for 45 minutes, ready and prepared
No lie, you can ask anybody that was there
Simple and plain my CD got critical acclaim
I began to build an official
Position in the game
Quicker than I could think I
Was fulfilling all my aims
I miss them days and now it's
Difficult and shit isn't the same

Everything that goes up must come down
I was alright before, but I'm fucked up now
Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
It's time that I document my rise and my fall
If it's not your destiny then
It's not meant to be
In the mirror face to face
With my worst enemy
Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
It's time that I document my rise and my fall

Before volume 2 dropped, my brother died
I never stopped I just
Carried on busting rhymes
Putting on a brave face but it
Was still tough at night i Couldn't sleep
Cos my nightmares were nothing nice
Volume 2 came out, got love in the press
Regardless, I was still stressed
And fucking depressed more successful
The more I felt stuck in a web
Pain ate away at my soul
Till nothing was left
There were rumours about
I heard the dirty sound
They even tried to say that
Chance has turned me down
Everyday they were on the phone tryna
Get me on that show
Till I had to tell them straight
Look I didn't wanna go
But I didn't wanna blow
Had nothing to prove brother
In '05 I won an award for best newcomer
But that shit's all irrelevant
They say the only thing
Worse than not getting
What you wish for is getting it


I just can't handle the chinswagging
And the lips chatting
My issues have me making
Decisions to quit rapping its funny
(why) cos that almost really did happen
I changed my mind everyday, kept zigzagging
But Im a lyricist, I live for this
I tried to stop got volume 3 of my chest
And hit writers block
Very pissed, I was getting sick of my topics
A pad and paper, I couldn't fill a line of it
Seeing rappers in magazines
I know Im better then
Cussing has-beens when really Im
Just a never-been me and my clique would be
Rich if we were American
Those negative times are so clear
When I remember them i hope you heard a bar
You can maybe relate with life is strange
It never remains the same it changes
It wasn't just memories that
Made me make this
Cause we all rise and fall on a daily basis