Life We Lead - Fliptrix, Verb T

Switch-blade mistakes

Leaving kids' tales never heard

Victims are physical until they believe the earth

This sickness is visual, you don’t need to dig this dirt

Addictions are killing citizens before they’ve seen the world

Swiggered on a drink until their insides and livers hurt

Kids are killing kids and then there’s young women giving birth

Driven by their instinct before they’ve ever lived and learned

Vision’s blurred, 'cos they don’t seem to know their worth

And we all struggle clear like our role models

Man punching walls till they’re left up with broke knuckles

Disputes settled on a pavement with blood puddles Surveillance doubles

Our pictures taken like our freedom and they make it subtle

Cameras in a little bubble

Placed in all the trains and buses, they don’t trust us

So when we’re born, we’re born as suspects

It’s all assumptions, treated like we’re drug lords and gunmen

Just 'cos we rep our hoodie cap and we bun cest

The Babylon, we bunned them, my middle finger’s up, yes

Fuck stress, I wanna live life nice in sunsets

This is the life we lead, but not the life we love

This is the reason why I crush mics 'til I be dust

You gotta balance mind, channel aggression

Stay focused, keep perspective

Show respect, change perception

Love conquers all, trying to make progression

Shape, protect and mould the young minds

As these times get iller, signs get hidden

I couldn’t care less if my rhymes get written

Or style gets copied, there’s more of importance

As we try and discover the coordinates for the end destination

Just open your eyes for some confirmation

Complications occur in the journey

We spiral down in the ball of flames burning

Some become ash, some rise again

Some can’t stand and some ride the pain

Strive to be free, fighting from the hate

This is the life we lead, but not the life we love

This is the reason why I crush mics 'til I be dust

Never am I going back

I move forth, making tracks

Till my vision fade to black

I stay intact, 'cos

Half my fam are in the grave

I pray for them, but they were snatched

It’s all around you, trust, it ain’t about them

Mugs, they try and doubt you

Hunt you with a foul tool

Drugs that come and cloud you

Suck you to your downfall

Before it’s too late for round two

So take a step back, listen your faith

Elevate your mind and see what you’ll amount to

See what you’ll amount to…

When you’re down to your last penny, stressing

Money ain’t everything, make some progression

Tape some aggression, leave you by the wayside

Beef now is like a sea of arms like a stage dive

One’s got a weapon, others gotta match it, had shit

To the map pointed at your damn wits

Stop telling fibs, stop telling kids lies

Yeah, they’re mad enough to emulate others' lives

Hate thrives on the ignorance and anger

Twelve-year olds handcuffed

Yeah, man, it’s damn fucked

This is the life we lead, but not the life we love

This is the reason why I crush mics 'til I be dust

Yeah-yeah, Fliptrix, Verb-T, it’s the life that we lead…