Big City Life


Big City Life,
Me try fi get by,
Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try.
Big City Life,
Here my heart have no base,
And right now Babylon de pon me case.

People in a show,
All lined in a row.
We just push on by,
Its funny,
How hard we try.

Take a moment to relax.
Before you do anything rash.

Don't you wanna know me?,
Be a friend of mine.
I'll share some wisdom with you.
Don't you ever get lonely,
From time to time
Don't let the system get you down

[Chorus:]

Soon our work is done,
All of us one by one.
Still we live our lives,
As if all this stuff survives.

I take a moment to relax,
Before I do anything rash.

[Bridge:]

The Linguist across the seas and the oceans,
A permanent Itinerant is what I;ve chosen.
I find myself in Big City prison, arisen from the vision of man kind.
Designed, to keep me discreetly neatly in the corner,
you'll find me with the flora and the fauna and the hardship.
Back a yard is where my heart is still I find it hard to depart this Big City Life.

[Chorus]

Mattafix - To and fro

I had a thought of you,
in solitude without rescue.
Your thoughts are in the
puring rain,
and you feel the way you
did before I met you.
Now I see the pain
forcing you to blame,
the only man that loved you.
Well no one more got
close to me before.
I'm amazed I let you.

To & fro,
is how my thoughts
would go,
while I was looking for,
my release.
You should know,
I had to let you go,
now and forever more,
I'm out of reach.

Now I see it all,
right before me,
your little story.
My role was on the page,
I refused to play in your
tragedy.
I feel no remorse while
you deal with yours.
How you feeling lately?
Well no one more got
close to me before.
Lady you betrayed me.

To & fro,
is how my thoughts
would go,
while I was looking for,
my release.
You should know,
I had to let you go,
now and forever more,
I'm out of reach.

Hence in the past tense,
the sentiments,
the arguments,
taking offence.
The only consequence,
I'm left to lament,
the love that came and went.
I'm still a true gent.
Never bitter and never
twisted.
Only optimistic about
the main statistic.
Number one is standing
vertical cause I never
take things personal.
Believe me,
my woman my woman
is gone,
and so me jus move on.
Da Linguist, this producer
this performer,
moulded by the pain and the trauma.
I'm on a mission to listen
to intuition more than
I've ever done before
never keep it hidden.
I won't waist away,
I'll wake up from day
to day and I'll face this.
You're on a need to
know basis.

To & fro,
is how my thoughts
would go,
while I was looking for,
my release.
You should know,
I had to let you go,
now and forever more,
I'm out of reach.
Out of reach.

Gangster Blues

I, I know it’s only time
Only time until,
You pull the job that kills
You say you’ ll never do it
Again but you know
You will
Call your boys who know the drill
It pains me to see how you get you thrill
Now time will prove
Now you have to choose
If life’s the game you lose
By taking one last chance and falling
To the gangster blues.

I, I heard the people say,
you’re in high demand.
Well badness will follow badman.

You know you only do it
son cause you now
you can
Another drive another gram
Well think of your family understand

Now time will prove
Now you have to choose
If life’s the game you lose
By taking one last chance and falling

You know its true,
Life can be so cruel
Time won’t wait for you
And I don’t want my friend a victim
of the Gangster Blues.

Bad man and Bad John
From all about
Rock it out.
Me draw for me spliff not
The cocaine
Me lef it out.
Babylon ah watch m run
big tings from long time
Time, time ey yeah.
Burning, hustling smuggling planting
Ah bare weed me deal wid
and me nah touch.
De hard ting.
Soon done ya chattin when
de war start fi happen
right now.

Now time will prove
Now you have to choose
If life’s the game you lose
By taking one last chance and falling
To the gangster blues

Passer By

She said no words when
I chose to stand away.
In the backround of my
Mind when the sund rose
I chose the shade
Never wanted never
Needed all the priceless
Things to say
But i know that time By
Alone was overdue
I know time alone was
Overdue
Overdue

At times rock stone is
The only bed that´s made
So i have the faith come
What will come what may
Passer by in pain

She read those words that
I chose to throw
Her way
And the timesthey were
Laden with hesistation that
I made
And if you´re ever my
Endeavour once again then
I´ll be changed
But i know that it ain't
So my hope refrains
refrains

At time rock stone is
The only bed that´s made
So i have the faith come
What will come what may
Passer by in pain

At time rock stone is
The only bed that´s made
So i have the faith come
What will come what may By
And when i rise alone
It don´t feel the same
So i have the faith come
What will come what may
Passer by in pain

Everyone Around You

They always told me
In the begining there was life
There was sin that was only
A story to explain
The state we're in
Gotta lie it's not your own
Need to take care of your home
Got a calling get some feeling
You got a family now

[Chorus:]
Now do you think you're too poor
The only one that wants you
Wants to be loved by you
And everyone around you
Can you even entertain
A thought that it's yourself to blame
I know that it's killing you
Just to hear this from me

I always warned you
When life's upon you -
Struggle before you run in
Every moments loose your focus
And fell to breathe in
It's not the place nor the time
You just start to change your mind
Gotta hold it down
You got a family now
Stand and be proud

[Chorus:]
Now do you think you're too cool
For the only one that wants you
Wants to be loved by you
And everyone around you
Can you even entertain
A thought that it's yourself to blame
I know that it's killing you
Just to hear this from me
I know that it's killing you
To hear this from me

You got the one of a kind
And that's all you should mind
How much life will you claim
Your ideas need to change
And o-o-oh, I came to say
I came to fight
With the pain they feel
'Cause of family name

[Chorus:]
Now do you think you're too cool
For the only one that wants you
Wants to be loved by you
And everyone around you
Can you even entertain
A thought that it's yourself to blame
I know that it's killing you
Just to hear this from me
I know that it's killing you
To hear this from me

Clear & Present Danger

Pray tell sweet
rosemary,
are the times what
they're supposed to be?
Is leadership the same
as treachery?
Will knighthood silence
anarchy?

Sorry for the hurt.
Sorry that the destiny
seems to be the ever
clear and present
danger.

Headlines that fail
to trace.
Land mines in a dossier.
Young, naive I may be.
Vietnam don't look that
different to me.
Oh no.

And now, sorry for
the hurt.
Sorry that the destiny
seems to be the ever
clear and present
danger.

Older

All i wanted was to
Live without the
Middleman
All you needed was a

Chance to say," i told you so"
When you´re cold and
Battered all you want
Is to know you matter
To someone

I had to throw away all
The plans we made and
Now these days
With marks against my
Shoulders i feel like
I´m older than i am

All i want right now
Is to be my own child.
Do you think it makes
Me a better man just
Mo know i can be
Alone a while?

I had to throw away
All the plans we made
And now these days
With marks against my shoulders i feel like
I´m older than i am

I To You

Oh yeah
In so many ways
I’m not a fighter I’m a lover
This aint the old days I’m a 21st century brotha

And if you don’t know
Who I am
You will never know
You don’t know, so you try to keep it on the down low
Unless you wanna tell me when I ask you:
Who am I to you?

Yo mama don’t know
Yo daddy aint sho
Who am I to you?

Everybody you know
Passed me straight on the road
Now I’d like to know who am I to you?

The sun is going down
An the streets are getting empty
I’m a stranger in your town
I’ll be your friend if you would let me

And if you don’t know
Who I am
You will never know
You don’t know, So you try to keep it on the down low
Unless you wanna tell me when I ask you;
Who I am to you

Yo mama don’t know
Yo daddy and sho
Who am I to you?
(Who I, who I)

Every body you know (Who I, who I)
passed me straight on the road (Who I, who I)
Now id like to know (brotha)
Who am I to you? (brotha)

You don’t know
Never know
don’t know
Down low
Unless you
Ask you
Who I am to you?

Yo mama don’t know
Yo daddy aint sho
Who I am to you?
Everybody you know passed me straight on the road
Now I’d like to know, Who I am to you

Impartial

Did I ever call for
your fame?
Why do we fight in
your name?
Is it really true that
you're there?
And do you ever
answer my prayers?
We are calling for
change,
so why don't you
come back again?
Why do you spread
love uneven?
This is not what I
believe in.

Do I have the right,
to write this down?
Without heresy pointing
a finger at me.
Rights?
We don't have no more.
In this catastrophe,
of a 21st century war.

Did I ever call for
your fame?
Why do we fight in
your name?
Is it really true that
you're there?
And do you ever
answer my prayers?
We are calling for
change,
so why don't you
come back again?
Why do you spread
love uneven?
This is not what I
believe in.

Turn and let your gaze
burn over yonder,
a young man stern
with the hunger,
who never puts asunder,
the late night thoughts
and the wonder.
Writing is a lightening
speech is a thunder.
Kid, I'm misinterpreted
like a Marxist.
The scared will
ask this,
impartial vocabulary
martial artist
practice verbal Ti-Chi
and pilates.
Da Linguist, the proper
opportunist.
Quick to drop a new list
of rhymes which
revue this,
right wind stifling that
we're suffering,
far from enlightening it's
frightening so usher in,
a new type of verbal
well being.
As your talks are warped
by a canopy of entropy,
enter the Linguist who
eventually,
with a dismaying display
of rhyme slaying advances.
The impartial vocabulary
martial artist.

Did I ever call for
your fame?
Why do we fight in
your name?
Is it really true that
you're there?
And do you ever
answer my prayers?
We are calling for
change,
so why don't you
come back again?
Why do you spread
love uneven?
This is not what I
believe in.

Did I ever call for
your fame?
Why do we fight in
your name?
Is it really true that
you're there?
And do you ever
answer my prayers?
We are calling for
change,
so why don't you
come back again?
Why do you spread
love uneven?
This is not what I
believe in.

The Means

Haead rests,
a sore mind behind these
red eyes.
Watch the television,
sweet escapism,
game shows and racism.
Headlines,
war crimes behind disguised
affection.

All for a cause that
never was.
Call for a voice but all
it does is sigh.
Inside.
Sigh.

More or less,
there abouts,
a young man with so
many doubts.
I try to learn
impersonating,
the clever moves but I
am facing,
the always power-crazed,
middle aged generation.

All for a cause that
never was.
Call for a voice but
all it does is sigh.
Inside.
Sigh.
Inside.

Blood and blame passed
on to a neighbour.
Continuing the chain.
Deadly game of whispers.
How am I to grow.
The life I love I
don't know.

Blood and blame passed
on to a neighbour.
Continuing the chain.
Deadly game of whispers.
How am I to grow.
The life I love I
don't know.

Blood and blame passed
on to a neighbour.
Continuing the chain.
Deadly game of whispers.
How am I to grow.
The life I love I
don't know.