Skepta - Castles

[00:15.76] As the days keep turning [00:18.09] As the world keeps burning [00:21.38] As my soul keeps learning [00:24.80] Tears fall from the castles around my heart [00:41.49] My teacher told me I'm a side man, I told her to remember me [00:45.06] Now they wanna email me, asking if I can talk to the kids in assembly [00:48.44] Now man are selling out Wembley [00:50.29] Now man are twenty first century [00:51.79] Statistics say I should be dead or in jail [00:53.73] But shit ain't the way that it's meant to be [00:55.20] Breaking the cycle [00:57.06] They wish I was trapped in the system [00:58.79] A 6 foot tall black guy like me [01:00.37] That would've been a rap in an instant [01:02.09] That's why I gotta speak my mind, I'm a say how it is and I never say sorry [01:05.24] Keep my mouth shut like Winston and Tracy fam - over my dead body [01:09.40] As the days keep turning [01:12.61] As the world keeps burning [01:15.89] As my soul keeps learning [01:19.11] Tears fall from the castles around my heart [01:36.02] Too much TV, too many newspapers got a nigga thinking evil [01:39.70] Got me thinking I'm looking at my enemy when I'm looking at my own people [01:42.93] Notice when a white man looks at my watch I think he's trying to pay me a compliment [01:46.75] When a black man looks at my watch I think he's trying to knock my confidence (mad) [01:50.00] I was in Amsterdam smoking blue cheese and I had an epiphany [01:53.22] All these negative preconceptions just bring more negativity [01:56.72] Instead of investing in new businesses they buy new artillery [01:59.95] Everybody in the hood wants to spray a 16 and I don't mean lyrically [02:03.52] Underdog psychosis spreading around in the hood like flu [02:06.96] Security guards follow me around like I ain't got 2 pound to pay for my juice [02:10.10] Now all this bullshit got me smoking this stupid zoot [02:13.79] Tell Boris he's lucky that I made it rapping or I would've been looting too [02:16.96] Niggas ain't got GCSEs still don't wanna work for a minimum wage [02:20.68] These days man will murder a man for a box of grade [02:23.99] Every time the.38 barrel spins Martin Luther turns in the grave [02:27.45] It's real life, no computer game, we're living in the streets of rage [02:31.04] As the days keep turning [02:34.95] As the world keeps burning [02:38.54] As my soul keeps learning [02:41.94] Tears fall from the castles around my heart [03:25.58]