[00:00.00] 作词 : D. Safo/A Shuckburgh[00:00.61] 作曲 : Sway/Shux[00:01.23]From the big big big big smoke to the big big big big apple,[00:03.72]Whether you drink drink drink drink coke or sip sip sip sip[00:05.94]Snapple, From the[00:06.69]Capital to capital[00:07.77]I'm trying to get that capital,[00:09.06]Until my name's up in bright lights and capitals,[00:11.58]In the big big big big city, it's a bit bit bit bit crazy,[00:13.95]Where babies are having babies that grow up and rob old ladies,[00:16.59]I've been on the hustle daily trying to get rap to pay me,[00:19.05]Cause working in gap or[00:20.04]Sainsbury's ain't gunna get that[00:21.03]Mercedes Born in the eighties in[00:22.77]London but[00:23.22]African raised,[00:24.03]And I've dreamed of packing those raves since back in the days, it's dreams,[00:27.48]In the classroom banging on tables till the teacher says,[00:30.15]Derek sit back and behave[00:31.71]It seems in my 22 years so much has happened[00:34.44]But I'm still progressing, bank balance going up per annum,[00:37.11]But when you're doing rapping[00:38.19]Charlie, seems to take a shooting or stabbing to go platinum[00:40.77]Charlie, I ain't gunna let that happen[00:42.00]Charlie. [Chorus:][00:42.51]City life[00:43.38]I love you[00:45.03]Even though the skies are grey,[00:46.41]I'll never place no place above you,[00:49.35]People trying to hustle every night and day,[00:51.51]Some are living the high life,[00:53.22]Under the bright lights,[00:54.33]While others get high and throw their lives away,[00:56.58]And every night[00:57.42]I pray that[00:58.08]I don't go insane[01:00.15]And end up just another product of the city[01:02.64]It's a bit bit bit bit crazy up in the big big big big smoke,[01:04.98]If you're a lil lil bit bit lazy you'll end up a lil lil bit bit broke,[01:07.50]Overseas it seems british folk are known for sniffing coke,[01:10.14]Being quick witted, and wicked rich and sitting in boats,[01:12.57]So every time[01:13.23]I travel abroad[01:13.89]I've gotta set the records straight,[01:15.12]And represent for all the people who can't afford to flipping go,[01:17.70]I'm just an ordinary bloke amoungst all these different strokes,[01:20.37]Trying to stay afloat without doing no fraud or dealing shit[01:23.07]Street lights, street life, all a flipping joke,[01:25.38]But I've come up a bit, had a good heart that toughened up a bit,[01:28.20]Look in the mirror kissed the good guy good bye,[01:30.48]Then exchanged my pucker-up lips for a stiff upper lip,[01:33.42]Little rob's jacking, watch him hold'em up with arms,[01:35.94]Kids are getting killed round these sides[01:37.83]And certain role models ain't doing jack but holding up their arms,[01:41.31]And that's just to do peace signs-these times are crazy [Chorus][02:10.05]No place for the weak every race is chasing paper seven days of the week,[02:14.07]And the streets just sound like music, 'cause kids care recording criminal records- the police are the beat[02:19.32]The steaks are high and everybody wants to eat[02:21.63]Youths use weapons as ladders to step up on these high streets,[02:24.66]Equals violence, then comes the violins,[02:27.00]Then comes the sirens, then comes the silence,[02:29.70]Life's the best teacher and[02:31.11]I'm trying to study hard,[02:32.31]So I can graduate up into the upper class[02:34.71]Front line like queen latifah in set it off,[02:37.29]Take notes like a bank robber in a rubber mask,[02:39.78]Frontline like[02:40.44]Chiefa we take while others ask,[02:42.39]Duct tape the rap game, rape the pop world,[02:44.58]Make off take another path, maybe politics,[02:47.79]No mate don't take that for another laugh, [Chorus]