Crossfire Love - Jamie T

This is out to the lost years parted

To the doom and the gloom boys (Woo)

To the tell, PJD and Kelly

To Bingul and all of the cage lot

And to all of the friendly faces

And to all of the family ties

And to all of my enemies hatred

I stand here and watch you with dilate eyes

She went wrang-ba-ba-boom, a crash-bang wallop

And she shut up shop

Caught in the crossfire of love

Caught in the crossfire love, he went

So much happened, no tit-for-tat tapping

Got plucked from a stage in a Hounslow gaff, rapping

Got stuck on a page in a rage of my book

Everywhere I went, they stared, so I looked

Went over the hills and far away

Ended up alone in all manner of place

Ended up alone with only my face

Looking in the mirror to recognise Jay’s

Got pills in the pocket and time to waste

A shitload of problems and a mind of a hate

A tic and a Bic and a violent shake

To get grits and fits and minor breaks, and

I looked up for faith then, fell down to break

Spent a lot of time battling

Haggling the matter with the devil I make

She went wrang-ba-ba-boom, a crash-bang wallop

And she shut up shop

Caught in the crossfire of love

Caught in the crossfire love, he went

She clutched my hand in the Brixton Jamm

Then slammed another man in a foreign land

My heart sunk and I drunk and I understand

It’s hard being rich in a poor man’s land

Then my ma got sick, and then so did you

On the level, I’m a rebel

I was battling the devil that’s bedevilling you

She couldn’t talk or walk or remember me

My frustration, the patient, the A&E

The correlation between the diagnostics team

Led me to believe it was her heart on her sleeve that

Got her caught in a rut and made her drink too much

The loss of two children outside the building

When her Daddy shot that shotgun shot

She went wrang-ba-ba-boom, a crash-bang wallop

And she shut up shop

Caught in the crossfire of love

Caught in the crossfire love

He went wrang-ba-ba-boom, a crash-bang wallop

And she shut up shop

Caught in the crossfire of love

Caught in the crossfire love

Then out of the blue, seem to come to

Sitting with the devil that I definitely knew

He had news and clues for my point of view

He sold me up the river with the delta blues and I

Took a minute and stopped, I watched the sun come up

Thought of Matthew and Alex

And if they still had it, would they still give it up?

Plus I owe it to them both to live a full life of

Love and respect for what they gave up

Call to connect to Lolly, she picked up

All I could say is «I'm sorry», then choked up

Living in the old rock-bottom life

So downtrodden and rotten and fucked up

Can’t stop stopping, I’m not beyond nothing

Still living with the devil, but the devil shut up

She went wrang-ba-ba-boom, a crash-bang wallop

And she shut up shop

Caught in the crossfire of love

Caught in the crossfire love

He went wrang-ba-ba-boom, a crash-bang wallop

And she shut up shop

Caught in the crossfire of love

Caught in the crossfire love

Wrang-ba-ba-boom, a crash-bang wallop

And she shut up shop

Caught in the crossfire of love

Caught in the crossfire love

He went wrang-ba-ba-boom, a crash-bang wallop

And she shut up shop

Caught in the crossfire of love

Caught in the crossfire love