Heart Attack Lyrics – Dave

[Intro]
Knife crimes is at a near-record high
With more than forty blade offenses every day in London
At a youth club in South London not far from
Where someone was stabbed less than twenty-four hours ago
The outline to a direct link between violent crimes
Social exclusion and austerity
A study by City Hall found that London has seen an increase
In 71% in victims of serious youth violence since 2012
The Mayor says this is linked to an increase in poverty
And the highest rates of violence
Take placе in some of the poorest boroughs

[Verse]
Look, I bеt them boys think I'm panicking
Check what my young G's are carrying
His blade same length as a javelin
I don't know about B-ball or what's happening
But know that it's f**ked
If he's travelling and we see him
I can't lie, I was depressed at phases
I was nineteen when the team nearly left him faceless
Hoping that we never left no traces
You know when you're so damn tired in your house
But you can't sleep cah you got pending cases
I used to love tempting fate
But now it's tempting faces
For half my career I was part of that
My best friend got a burner
And it's looking like a artifact
Put it in your puffer or your Prada hat
Like f**k panic, that's a heart attack
Yeah, it's like
Life's so f**ked in the time that we're in
We're fighting the world, and we're fighting within
Somali dad ran away from a war
Now his son's in a war, that's the cycle we're in
I know n!ggas that didn't do time in a bin
That have never had freedom of mind, are you sick?
'Round here main way to provide for your kin
Is in a fl!ck blade, little push-bike and a sim
In London a place where it's nicer to live
Is only five minutes out from the guys on the strip
Where man make yay' work, heard he a soldier
I know that n!gga hasn't got balls like Grey Worm
As I grow older, change of perspective
I gotta stay loyal to my girl
That's the trait she was blessed with
Restaurants, raves with my bredrins
Life's too short, so we gotta turn up
Man talk on my ting for the 'Gram, it's intrusive
I never really thought 'bout taking a life
'Til I found out my ex-girl's dad is abusive
I felt "How could I be a man and not do sh!t?"
I'm on the way there now, and I don't wanna lose it
But fighting her battle's only hurting the girl
How can I protect her from the world
When I couldn't even protect her from myself?
On my grandmother's grave, sh!t happens again
I put a knife through a family friend
Most the women that I know had sh!t happen to them
So innocent 'til guilty
Ain't something that I have to respect
I think back to my youth and I was so ungrateful
How many of our parents had dreams they abandoned
So they could put food on the table?
Intelligent, worthy and able, that's somebody's parent
You know?
And that affected the way that I see sh!t
Night club toilet, you peed on the seat
'Cause you don't know how it feels
When your mum's gotta clean sh!t
And her boss treats her like she don't even mean sh!t
And she gotta wait for the bus in the rain and
It's freezing
And Miss said that you would never be sh!t
And you don't wanna cry about dad, but you need him
I grew up so f**ked, but I didn't even deep it
I'm numb to the feeling of grieving
And man getting birded
African mums on the floor, just screaming
It's mad 'cah I try so hard
Death's got to be easy, cah life's so hard
I was twelve wishing that I was a white man, hard
'Cah if I was then they probably wouldn't life mans dargs
I was dead broke, fam, I couldn't swipe mans card
And time might pass, but I still gotta stay with it
It wasn't his beef, but I see him try claiming it
That's why he caught a bullet with another man's name on it
Now he can't do leg day or put strain on it
Every time you hear me freestyle, I put pain in it
I used to wonder "Does God have favorites?"
Touch me, it's dangerous, I wouldn't play with it
'Cause you can go sleep
And have a different type of wake for it
I miss my dawgs, unstable
You violate Chris? Then rah, turn Chris Benoit
Have him hit from far, nah
Fill 'em up with bricks and glass, nah
My young G's will grip, then blast
Have you tried in the street
F**k finding my feet
I could ride
But it's better when I'm riding a beat
My emotions are peak
It ain't a sign of defeat or the weak
I would've f**k you, then cried in my sleep
Dropped Juss two racks and told him "Buy the machine"
I'm LeBron in Miami, I provide for the heat
God strike me if I'm lying, I ain't crying in this beef
Unless the tears coming tatted on the side of my cheek
I provide for my peeps, the Lamb' white in the seats
So I'm literally a wolf disguised in a sheep
You have five figure dreams, I have five figure sleep
Five hours more than enough time that I need
Man want a fair fight, but I ain't on it when we see him
F**k honour, this revolver is onomatopoeic
Let it "Stut-tut-tut-tut-tut-tut-ter" when you see him
Free Scalez, Free C and free my n!ggas 'til I see 'em
I wouldn't wanna be him
My OG's roaming, I don't need a colosseum
You see it?
So I'm playing it good, let hood politics stay in the hood
F**k the Internet, you see this new generation
They're Insta-beefing and I ain't into speaking
When I ducked down
I had him running in a lift like he missed a meeting
There's no good reason to risk your freedom
The yutes dem snitch and them b!tches sneaking
She don't wanna talk 'bout friendships
She just wanna deal with the pipe like I'm fixing leaking
And sleep with a legend like Chrissy Teigen
Where I'm from the word "Life" has a different meaning
Man smile in your face, but them n!ggas scheming
Try involve me in a flakey dealing
Sistine Chapel, I'ma paint the ceiling
I been violated and I hate the feeling
That's why nowadays man hates the preaching
We smile in the visit, cah we ain't defeated
The Supreme Court's where my mates appealing
I can't breed that girl, that's torture
South London, it's just slags on the corner
And influencers tryna bag them a baller
She a gold-digger, I can tell from her aura
Her socials say princess, she a pauper
When it's time for it, need more for my daughter
Call me a talker
But man are getting lined like lambs in the slaughter
It's life-threatening and I can tell from the borer
Cut through a n!gga like a knife through flora
Feds got the guys on a case and they stalk us
It's a conspiracy like tinfoil hats and a new world order
Touch me, you better have a life insurer
Blood thirsty, I got sharks in the water
And trust me, I know a killer well, no orca
Have you ever seen a nightmare brought to life?
Where I'm from, you get cheffed on a normal night
Men talk on my name, but it's porkie pies
I'll really put it in a prick like a porcupine
Little bro wanna save for a .45
Go board a flight, there's more to life
Yutes on the M6 all the time
We don't need TFL for a northern line
All the best politicians been taught to lie
Where do they buy cocaine when they're snorting white?
Are their dealers safe or on the borderline?
It's ironic, cah we don't know where to draw the line
Man see Blue Story, they're mortified
Man see Scarface and it's glorified
'Cause when you're black, everything gets scrutinized
That's why they call it "Urban", it gets euphemized
South London, man are getting euthanized
I see a yute's demise, I wasn't too surprised
He got soaked but his right hand scuba dived
Don't die by a sword that you used to shine
You can drown for your king, you don't know about Ophelia
Cah we got iron, I don't know about anaemia
I took the hard road, we don't know 'bout the easier
One bag of whores and drug paraphernalia
When ends got sticky, had a fl!cky with Emelia
I mean Olivia
This ain't Libya, this ain't Syria
You act sillier, we let it seep in your skin like Nivea
Who wants to be a millionaire? I won it
Never done a gameshow or trivia
I done Wandsworth, Erlestoke visitor
I done Springhill, Grendon, Swinfen
Whitemoor, Swaleside, Brixton visitor
I done M-way trips, done sh!t that I wish I never did
Becah I could have been a prisoner
Is this the sh!t that appeals to the listeners?
Road ain't no amazing life
The ends full of snakes and jails, just a waste of time
I tell my young G's "Take your time"
F**k Jazz, you can really see a major nine
Yo, I'm so ashamed of how I used to get figures
Man sell you a dream like the road ting's lit
And then they leave out the parts
Where you're burying your n!ggas
Or in jail, wondering who's putting d!ck inside your Mrs
I'm so f**king determined
I was in intensive care when I was born
Mummy fell down the stairs
Whether I was gonna live or not was something uncertain
I used the word "Fell", with the commas inverted
You see, growing up I had it far from perfect
But nobody did, so I'm a normal person
I gotta be grateful
We all have demons and all see angels
Or maybe it's me
A black yute's more than a face on a screen
A number on a laptop or name on a sheet
We got stories to tell and got places to be
From my heart, that's the making of me

[Outro: Juliet Doris Omoregie]
I was selling, look, I was selling tomatoes
I sell, my legs hurts
I struggled 'cause I didn't want to suffer again
I just wanted, it just make me so upset
Three times I tried
I went to Hannover, they sent me back
I tried so much, he has not seen anything yet
I was in detention camps for months at the end
I didn't give up
I was not even twenty when I left Africa
I was determined to survive
I was determined to succeed
I didn't know anybody, nobody was ready to help me
Even when you were born
You were six weeks old
This one is not even Africa, it's this nation
I was on the streets for three years
I have three babies in my hand
Nobody let me in, nobody in this nation
I couldn't pay my rent, deported gangsters carried-
I didn't give up, I carried my babies everywhere
And now this is how you pay me
Back for all those pain that I go through
Everyday I lay in my bed, I'm in pain
You see what he's doing to me
You want to kill me
You want to kill me