Stormzy - This Is What I Mean lyrics

Oh oh oh, why?

(Oh) it's a bigger operation (Oh, oh)
What's with all the speculation? (Oh, oh)
Had to close the store for renovations
(Oh, oh)
My cuzzy said "Stormz', man, they're
Runnin' out of patience, you know"
(Oh, oh) time to make a statement (Oh, oh)
Time to free my mind of limitations (Oh, oh)
Finesse the majors
That's my form of reparations (Oh, oh)
They said, "You can't slide
You're a treasure to the nation" (Oh, oh)
But what they gonna do, what they gonna say?
(Oh, oh)
Stormz' got that sauce, this that bolognese
(Oh, oh)
Talkin' 'bout the bread, like it correlates
(Oh, oh) i see you lookin' bothered
With your bothered face (Oh, oh)


Even though we're comin' from a common place
(Oh, oh)
All I see is stars, like we in a Wraith
(Oh, oh) so give him room to grow
And just give him space (Oh, oh)
And he could be a young, black Jimmy Napes

Oh, this is clean, this is clean
This is what I mean
I said, this is what I mean, yo

All my niggas got it, we unanimous
Cut from different cloth
And different calibers
My skeleton is matchin' with my managers'
She love me
'cause I'm handsome and I'm talented
(Boy, boy) hangin' off the banisters
Tell me, who's gon' pay for all the damages?
Ah, I'm just reckless, like the mandem is
Talkin' recky
We gon' ask you where your manners is
I said it from a kid, you should've listened
I manifest the shit and then it happened
Said that I'ma do it, then it happens
(P2J up on the rhythm and it's slappin')
I shout my brother Giggs
That's more than rappin'
Shout my sister Mel, we doin' fashion
(Sheesh)
Ah, all this work that I've been mashin'
Put your boy in the position where
I profit off my passion, alright
They don't know about the times I've bled
Give a fuck 'bout what the timeline said
I do your day streams
In a second, yeah, I shine like Ed
I thank God for the life I've led
Then get the Wraith clean
I heard them say that grime ain't dead
I'm Harry Styles, the way I fine-line tread
You're goin' mainstream
Mind your business, 'fore you mind my bread
If ten milli' weren't enough, I
Make a lifetime pledge, alright
(Boy)

This is what I mean this is what I mean
This is what I mean this is what I mean

Uh, I can't address your niggas on the 'net
They disrespect
They don't wanna give me my respect
It's disrespect a nigga doin' numbers
What the fuck did you expect?
They charge a nigga fifty every
Time I miss the jet, ah
I guess I overslept if she hold me down
Then I might buy her a Patek
The mandem hold me back
Because they know just how I get
Please don't hold my money, man
Just wire me my check

I make a pay from your mother
'cause it's lots on the beach
White bitches rollin' in the deep
Nosedivin' off a yacht, into the sea
Blah, still I keep the blicky on me
Bitch, I'm off that thing already
Uh, uh, you know I'm with a ting already
She buy the whole house
(yeah, go) , fuck a centerpiece
But she might like that chopper sing already
Hmm bitch, I'm off that thing already
Uh, uh, you know I'm with a ting already
They don't wanna give me my respect
It's disrespect
Y'all gon' have to pay your respects
It's off the check (Um, alright)

I don't do things the rapper way
All that cappin' on the net
I'll make the mandem blow a cap away
So we just let them niggas out the way
I think I'm Kanye mixed with Donny Hathaway
(Hathaway) i heard Sunday's the new Saturday
(Sat-sat-urday)
We praisin' God, I watch my enemies evaporate
Hallelujah, to be honest
I could plan and do you
But I gotta rise above it
Word to Dan Kaluuya
No chance, buffalo stance on my Neneh Cherry
They wanna see the Michael that
They see on telly
You man just remind me of my girl
Why you never ready? I'm the GOAT
But that ain't nothin' I ain't said already
Oh, please
All my enemies are dead and buried
I need that Häagen-Dazs
I need that Ben & Jerry's
If we do it, then we do it large
I'm on my Kevin Perry
This ain't the same man who
Said his head was heavy

(This is what I mean)
Cos you see say, if dey no one
Listen to you, breddas smoke dem paigons
They don't deserve you (This is what I mean)
Can't keep you name out their mouth, they
Say you do this and that
We are tired already (This is what I mean)
Talk is cheap, I don't do bare
Talking, diss jiggas are quiet
Bredda dey no for tell you
(This is what I mean)
Cos you see say, if dey no one
Listen to you, breddas smoke dem paigons
They don't deserve you (This is what I mean)
This is what I mean, this is what
I mean, this is what I mean, o
(This is what I mean)
Oh, I mean, o, it's what I
Mean, o, that's what I mean, o
(This is what I mean)
This is what I mean, this is what
I mean, this is what I mean, o
(This is what I mean)
This is what I mean, o, is what I mean, o