As Time Goes By - Devlin, Smasher

I’m fed up with life at the minute

So I get it off my chest when I’m writing my lyrics

Having to give my Nan hospital visits

I just pray to God she don’t turn to a spirit

Cause she’s the only Nan I’ve got left

And it hurts in my head when I contemplate her death

Knowing that one day soon she’ll be gone

That thought leaves me short of breath

Yeah that’s just one of the things

That makes me feel like I’m running in rings

No process made that’s a regular thing

But if I stop spitting that would be the death of a king

I’ve got to learn to focus my mind at the lowest of times

Then lo and behold the scene could be mine

Draw you a picture with words I describe with a caption beside

As life goes by, in the blink of an eye

I stay focused on writing my rhymes

These streets are inviting to crime

If I didn’t write music I’d probably go mad in my mind

Because it’s only music that keeps me sane

Plus bud and beers to forget the pain

Just reflecting my days go away

Let me tell another story, tell about a 23 year old man that don’t wanna' fail

Every move he makes his heart’s in it, from the start to the finish

Because losing ain’t never ever been an option

Constantly cooking up plans and concoctions

Raised in a place called Hoxton

By his Nan and granddad, gets to see his mum on a weekend

That was a treat then she was spoilt rotten and then its back to the east then

Years later man will be sick with a big pen

Living in a place where the youths strap big lens

Pure drama a star performer leave the boost so hot u could call it a sauna

10 out of 10 I’m back at it again whatever the outcome its music to the end

Just another day in the life this music ain’t paying me right

Like a worker at MacDonald’s receiving minimum wage

I get pennies for the shit that I’ve write on the pages

Like I’m feeling so what in slaved due to power and urban decay

There ain’t no prospects in the UK today

So my mates keep playing up the 'caine

I don’t know what I stand in the struggling and strain

I’m trapped in the thunder and rain

But I don’t give a fuck for the fame so if I full pray to my sins then lust is

to blame

I’m in your ear like blood in your veins

And yeah I’m on the road like buskers and trains

I’m just like everyone I love to be paid

I’m messed up it must be the bud that I blaze

There ain’t nothing for us

The way I’m feeling there ain’t no word in the thesaurus

Born on the 7th of may I’m a Taurus

Can’t keep my job cause I can’t take orders

I feel like I’m outside of the borders

Looking inside of the rich and the borders then I take a look around my

headquarters

And I’m ripping my hair out soon my heads gonna' look like Gail Porter’s

They hit us with extortion and treat illegal immigrants much more important

than me and you

Cause I’ve lived there all my life and live got nothing to show for it

And you can’t get rich from work so spitting I’ve gotta' have a really good go

at it

I’ve put my boat in the stream and now I keep rowing it it’s my dream I won’t

let go of it