Hourglass - Verb T, Skrein

Like minutes

Years pass by and we still don’t get it

Try to ignore

Man, you know how them cowards are

Yo

(Sand in the hourglass)

Yo

Look at them trying to ignore

Like as if the skill don’t exist

Look at you, man

You’re so

Get respect where it’s due

Grab my hat

Tip the bill

Stressed out like life

Was just bitches and bills

Real shit

Never act like it’s just a drill

Some ain’t seen life straight

Can’t resist the pills

That’s the deal

When you’re chasing that

Mass appeal

Fears

Might not

Always get you

But you have its will

Going mad trying to protect your needs

Veins popping out your neck like a steroid freak

And you know that your daemons are there poised

Deep

Hidden away

Waiting to take you a part

Man, their ploy’s

Deeper than a baby in a shallow grave

Mother with dirt and blood on her hands

Tapping veins

Can’t deny things are that nature

Because they happen day after day

Ignoring that won’t make it fade

Spitting gas by a naked flame

Put 'em out in a head dress

I dance and make it rain

Make it storm

Matter fact

Make it monsoon

Like gorilla

While you’re spitting

I’ll be hissing like a bomb fuse (Hiss)

Look, man, I’m in the wrong mood

Never could just nod, say 'Yeah' and look amused

Think you’re dropping knowledge because you read a book or two

But been distracted from shit you should be looking to

And contenders I put 'em through Hell

When I cast you away like the judge threw the book at you

Like the judge threw the book at you

And you were sent away for some years

Days pass by in what feels like minutes

Years pass by and we still don’t get it

Or try to ignore

Man, you know how them cowards are

Slipping

And we’re all sand in the hourglass

Days pass by in what feels like minutes

Years pass by and we still don’t get it

Or try to ignore

Man, you know how them cowards are

Slipping

And we’re all sand in the hourglass

Ayo

Once so many hours pass

Sands falling in the hourglass

Living out a shallow past

I never realised

Quite how short an hour lasts

Till I treated death like

''Ave a laugh!'

And now

That’s weight off my shoulders

Like an avalanche

So you gotta do you best when you have the chance

Because next minute you missed your chance

And I just gotta see your face to really see

Just how pissed you are

We in the playground

Playing with death

Greeting each step

With fear, hate, waste and regret

Shit

I’m watching years to by

To 23 from 5 in the blink of an eye

Woah!

Wow!

Were we living a lie?

Nah, I still remember the feeling

I feel it inside

Because me and Verbs laughing

Like my nan’s alive

Playing

Making castles in the sands of time

Where seconds turn to minutes

Minutes turn to hours

Hours turn to days

Days turn to months

Months turn to years

Till it’s your retirement day

Cheers!

And you realised you ain’t smiled in 8 years

Woah!

9 to 5 got you dead alive

Living dead, dead living

Corporate paradise

Woah!

It’s got me sitting here thinking about my past

How we’re all sand in the hourglass

Days pass by in what feels like minutes

Years pass by and we still don’t get it

Or try to ignore

Man, you know how them cowards are

Slipping

And we’re all sand in the hourglass

Days pass by in what feels like minutes

Years pass by and we still don’t get it

Or try to ignore

Man, you know how them cowards are

Slipping

And we’re all sand in the hourglass