Crack Baby

[00:11.68] When I was young, I knew this kid
[00:13.17] And his life was always madness
[00:14.72] His mum was on them crack rocks
[00:16.14] When he was young, his Dad left
[00:17.83] Kids would call him 'have-not'
[00:19.40] And worse, I bet you can guess
[00:20.64] Scummy, tramp, jack-pot
[00:22.26] His mum's still at the crack spot
[00:23.81] He's hungry and he's hacked off
[00:25.32] There's blood all down his tracktop
[00:26.84] Them bullies caught him slipping
[00:28.26] He curls up when they're kicking
[00:29.63] Punching, biting, spitting
[00:31.12] Now there's phones out with the cams on
[00:32.55] He dies some more inside
[00:33.87] Then he cries when he gets stamped on
[00:35.58] It's damn wrong
[00:36.98] Any part of him that was man's gone
[00:38.97] They finally knocked him out, he saw a light and thought he'd found God
[00:41.58] Only then to wake, right back inside this town, lost
[00:45.06] Cold but he don't care much, his only friend was Jack Frost
[00:47.81] His skinny little frame aches
[00:49.35] There's cuts upon his grazed face
[00:50.91] Trying to find a safe way home, that may be long
[00:53.78] He looks above and screams "Why'd you bring this hell on me?"
[00:56.61] At night I try and sleep but can't, I hear this song
[00:59.95] I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop
[01:05.55] There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard
[01:11.38] Well every day the problem seems to multiply
[01:14.83] And everybody's keeping busy getting by
[01:17.30] Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry
[01:20.56] It's just my city's lullaby
[01:23.99] Years pass and he was chilling
[01:25.50] On this park bench spitting
[01:27.01] Freestyling to himself
[01:28.32] About his life, that it was hell
[01:29.89] When this crazy local villain
[01:31.40] Sat down and told him "Listen
[01:32.95] I've seen how hard your life has been, I think it's time I helped"
[01:35.92] If you like, you'll work for me, the boys will welcome you as well
[01:38.72] If you've got beef then we've got beef, we'll ride on them with shells
[01:41.74] You never deserved the cards you got
[01:43.26] Here's your chance to passed them off
[01:44.70] Take a gamble, cast the rod
[01:46.37] It's time you showed this world
[01:47.85] Says "Yeah man, fuck it
[01:49.41] I might as well be thugging
[01:50.69] This life has gave me nothing"
[01:52.05] Can feel inside himself, the accumulated hatred
[01:55.09] Was soon replacing basic
[01:56.74] Human moods a face with
[01:58.45] A past and you can tell
[01:59.88] But it's all about his future now
[02:01.28] Olders got him moving round
[02:02.95] Running guns, moving grams
[02:04.69] Flick-knife on his belt
[02:06.07] He's dying to use his blade though
[02:07.67] For years you made him scapegoat
[02:08.86] Now take note, you try him now, you're getting straight poked (Oh well)
[02:12.24] I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop
[02:17.47] There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard
[02:23.71] Well every day the problem seems to multiply
[02:26.76] And everybody's keeping busy getting by
[02:29.67] Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry
[02:32.56] It's just my city's lullaby
[02:36.08] He's the man now, stand down
[02:37.60] He's shotting up this mad town
[02:39.36] Taxing other shotters with yoggers and his mad pals
[02:42.31] I called him Sonic, wherever he went there was always tales
[02:45.44] Of clarat and vomit, I think he's trying to even the scale
[02:48.68] He feels euphoric, a hoodrat that was beaten down ironically giving the beatings now
[02:53.24] It's all evened out, a child that was screaming out
[02:55.76] Is a man with an evil scowl
[02:57.43] Oh shit! What's this?
[02:58.96] Someone that he's seen in town
[03:00.53] Used to punch him around (ho)
[03:02.21] Now he's reaching around (yo)
[03:03.62] And his heater is out so
[03:05.14] Now he's blasting rounds
[03:07.95] And his target's down
[03:09.78] Like Warren in Barking town
[03:11.00] And he's laughing proud
[03:12.59] His heart is drowned
[03:13.89] Nobody can save him now
[03:15.23] He's a monster made by man, Mary Shelly ain't around
[03:18.16] So this ain't no act of fiction
[03:19.82] When I find these words and fix 'em
[03:21.32] To the page to make you see where this child went off the rails (I'm done now)
[03:24.51] I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop
[03:29.80] There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard
[03:35.86] Well every day the problem seems to multiply
[03:39.09] And everybody's keeping busy getting by
[03:41.90] Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry
[03:45.04] It's just my city's lullaby