[03:07.00]I gave this country
[03:07.00]Blood sweat tears and taxes
[03:07.00]Grafting for mine that’s standard
[03:07.00]I own this land where I lay my head
[03:07.00]Won’t live to my knees
[03:07.00]I’m standing
[03:07.00]
[03:07.00]I got war wounds mana saw Blood,
[03:07.00]sweat, tears n paid my taxes
[03:07.00]Check my catalogue check my résumé
[03:07.00]My whole city knows ibeen tapped in
[03:07.00]About smoke…they don’t wan it
[03:07.00]I set level they acknowledge
[03:07.00]Common sense ain’t too common
[03:07.00]Cus man ah chatty they live gossip
[03:07.00]You ain’t done nuin for yourself let alone for the country
[03:07.00]I was in Texas I was in Austin
[03:07.00]mic in my right hand every ting comfy
[03:07.00]When I say Cardiff certain man think everything country
[03:07.00]Violate my ting everything dumpy
[03:07.00]Target aim leave everything bloody
[03:07.00]
[03:07.00]Even though mans green white green I rep that blue & white called scotty
[03:07.00]The roads are jumpy, there’s more to the culture than Haggis and Bucky
[03:07.00]Ten toes on the strip I tell man straight you gotta move properly
[03:07.00]I ball like tierney them man there, they can never test me
[03:07.00]I need me that big throne
[03:07.00]Need more than a referendum to break me away from them queen notes
[03:07.00]Still I rep for my scene though
[03:07.00]From G L A to A B Z they really put on for the a set
[03:07.00]But I’m big bad Bemz from A Y R & I’m coming live & direct
[03:07.00]
[03:07.00]I gave this country
[03:07.00]Blood sweat tears and taxes
[03:07.00]Grafting for mine that’s standard
[03:07.00]I own this land where I lay my head
[03:07.00]Won’t live on my knees
[03:07.00]I’m standing
[03:07.00]Tell’em It’s mine as much as yours
[03:07.00]It’s what my grand daddy was fighting for
[03:07.00]Hope and glory
[03:07.00]Shine these shores
[03:07.00]United Kings Dem
[03:07.00]Shine in force
[03:07.00]
[03:07.00]Enter the place start mosh pits
[03:07.00]Might just stand on your face
[03:07.00]Belfast kid from the east 100degrees
[03:07.00]Came in just to bu’n up the place
[03:07.00]C’7 make them run all the way
[03:07.00]No difference I still came to bu’n up the place
[03:07.00]Rock star kid Mick Jagger
[03:07.00]Still got swagger, still got opulent taste
[03:07.00]This ain’t light to me I do rock more time
[03:07.00]This aight to me, dig me, miss…. Tyson lean
[03:07.00]She try show me nyash, die for me
[03:07.00]Man that ting right there ain't enticing me
[03:07.00]You man talk too much stop lying please
[03:07.00]All that for the net
[03:07.00]Stop trying please
[03:07.00]
[03:07.00]I grew up on both sides of the fence
[03:07.00]Heritage mixed I was raised in endz
[03:07.00]Mindset changed when the lens got wider
[03:07.00]Saw opportunity over the hedge
[03:07.00]Crossed them waters over the Thames
[03:07.00]New turf these sides but the grass ain’t changed
[03:07.00]Looking like usain in a marathon
[03:07.00]Trynna keep up, with a different race
[03:07.00]Marathon runner in my genes there’s mileage
[03:07.00]Shipped from Africa to the islands
[03:07.00]South side now where I’m residing
[03:07.00]Here we got guns, good pussy and violence
[03:07.00]Streets cold even when the sun shining
[03:07.00]Gotta keep your heart tucked under the icing
[03:07.00]I can’t call this a kingdom that I’m in
[03:07.00]Brudda even Manchester ain’t united
[03:07.00]
[03:07.00]I gave this country
[03:07.00]Blood sweat tears and taxes
[03:07.00]Grafting for mine that’s standard
[03:07.00]I own this land where I lay my head
[03:07.00]Won’t live on my knees
[03:07.00]I’m standing
[03:07.00]Tell’em It’s mine as much as yours
[03:07.00]It’s what my grand daddy was fighting for
[03:07.00]Hope and glory
[03:07.00]Shine these shores
[03:07.00]United Kings Dem
[03:07.00]Shine in force