- ILL Manors -


Let's all go on an urban safari
We might see some illegal migrants
Oi look there's a chav
That means council housed and violent
He's got a hoodie on give him a hug
On second thoughts don't you don't wanna get mugged
Oh shit too late that was kinda dumb
Whose idea was that... stupid...
He's got some front, ain't we all
Be the joker, play the fool
What's politics, ain't it all
smoke and mirrors, April fools
All year round, all in all
Just another brick in the wall
Get away with murder in the schools
Use four letter swear words coz we're cool
We're all drinkers, drug takers
Every single one of us buns the herb
Keep on believing what you read in the papers
council estate kids, scum of the earth
Think you know how life on a council estate is
From everything you've ever read about it or heard
Well it's all true, so stay where you're safest
There's no need to step foot out the burbs
Truth is here, we're all disturbed
We cheat and lie its so absurd
Feed the fear that's what we've learned
Fuel the fire, let it burn.

Oi! I said Oi!

What you looking at you little rich boy!
We're poor round here, run home and lock your door
Don't come round here no more, you could get robbed for
Real because my manors ill!
My manors ill
For real
Yeah, you know my manors ill, my manors ill!

You could get lost in this concrete jungle
New builds keep springing up outta nowhere
Take the wrong turn down a one way junction
Find yourself in the hood nobody goes there
We got an eco friendly government
They preserve our natural habitat
Built an entire Olympic village
Around where we live without pulling down any flats
Give us free money and we don't pay any tax
NHS healthcare, yes please many thanks
People get stabbed round here there's many shanks
Nice knowing someone's got our backs when we get attacked
Don't bloody give me that
I'll lose my temper
Who closed down the community centre?
I kill time there used to be a member
What will I do now until September?
Schools out, rules out, get your bloody tools out
London's burning, I predict a riot
Fall in fall out
Who knows what it's all about
What did that chief say? Something bout the kaisers
Kids on the street no they never miss a beat, never miss a cheap
Thrill when it comes their way
Let's go looting, no not Luton
The high street's closer cover your face
And if we see any rich kids on the way we'll make 'em wish they stayed inside
Here's a charge for congestion, everybody's gotta pay
Do what Boris does... rob them blind!

             - Free -


Yeah, i know, i know, i know I've been bad
I know I lied and I cheated in the past
But I ain't capable of doing such wrong
That justifies me being locked up this long
I ain't guilty of no crime
Get these chains off me
Can't risk doing no more time
Please just set me free
Everyday I go on
I feel my heart getting colder
I'm beggin' you please
Yeah, yeah
You got me wrong
I don't deserve this fate
I'm not where I belong
Not the kind of place
Once he's mad at your fear
I ain't meant to be here
I'm meant to be free!

Yeah, I know, I know, I know I've been a fool
I had everything and went and lost it all
But I don't deserve this sentence on my head
Especially when I never did what she said

I ain't guilty of no crime
Get these chains off me
Can't risk doing no more time
Please just set me free
Everyday I go on
I feel my heart getting colder
I'm beggin' you please
You got me wrong
I don't deserve this fate
I'm not where I belong
Not the kind of place
Once he's mad at your fear
I ain't meant to be here
I'm meant to be free
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Time's such a precious thing
We shouldn't waste it on little things
Effect me won't get in the way
Of what we need 'cause it just don't pay
I ain't guilty of no crime
Get these chains off me
Can't risk doing no more time
Please just set me free
Everyday I go on
I feel my heart getting colder
I'm beggin' you please
You got me wrong
I don't deserve this fate
I'm not where I belong
Not the kind of place
Once he's mad at your fear
I ain't meant to be here
I'm meant to be free
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm meant to be free
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm meant to be free.

       - Playing with fire -


One day you'll learn
When you get hurt
By then it will be too late for ya
Be too late for ya
When the fire spreads and burns, don't you know?

He's just a kid of the estate
We call him little Jake
Today he tried to buy weed with his little mate
Up in the bits, but he's just a kid
So he was open to manipulation
He had to undergo initiation
And when some older boys saw the situation
They took the piss, now look at this
Will you be his up and only friend
The only one that won't pretend
And even gave me the money for depend
From mice to men, and then to rats
But only a snake behaves like that
But the gun don't care for fool shooting gaps
They just happy they could fall for the trap

Playing with fire, it doesn't burn
First time, your hand,
Walk through the pain
Playing with fire, it's too extreme
Oh-oh-oh
Scare tin, skin now
Hell on it's way
Playing with fire
Fire, fire, fire, fire
Go playing with fire
One day you'll learn
When yo get burned
By then it'll be too late for ya
Too late for ya
When the fire spreads and burns
Don't you know
Playing with fire

He's just a kid, but he feels like a man today
He joined a gang today
Been at a house party, you ran away
Doing illegal shit, but he's just a kid
Still he's in luck today
He got a fuck today
Yeah he bust his very first nut today
In some stupid bitch
Today's moving quick
So quick, if you wear the wrong shoes
You'll slip
Better keep up with the tempo, with a click
Cause what they on is messed up rough
And now that he's rolling with these vexed up thugs
What's next up...
Cause he's gonna it his only mission
To bet his position, in this little gang it's a competition
To a little man with a disposition
Holding though he was born a Christian
What he worships now is the night they listen
Wise men will tell you with age comes wisdom
And you can't be saved by religion unless you have faith
So it makes no difference to the use, to erasing the system
You don't have age on your side
Row models and lies that provide insight
So he ain't gonna listen
As for Jake, he's already made his decision
And now he's just another poster boy
For David Cameron's Broken Britain

Playing with fire, it doesn't burn
First time, your hand,
Walk through the pain
Playing with fire, it's too extreme
Oh-oh-oh
Scare tin, skin now
Hell on it's way
Playing with fire
Fire, fire, fire, fire
Go playing with fire
One day you'll learn
When yo get burned
By then it'll be too late for ya
Too late for ya
When the fire spreads and burns
Don't you know
Playing with fire.

           - She said -


She said I love you boy, I love your soul
She said I love you baby, oh oh oh oh ohh
She said I love you more than words can say
She said I love you bayayayayayby
So I said, what you sayin girl it can't be right
How can you be in love with me
We only just met tonight
So she said, boy I loved you from the start
When I first heard love goes down
Something started burning in my heart
I said stop this crazy talk
And leave right now and close the door
She said but I love you boy, I love your soul
She said I love you baby oh oh oh oh ohh
She said I love you more than words can say
She said I love you bayayayayayby
So now I'm up in the courts
Pleading my case in a witness box
Telling the judge and the jury
The same thing that I said to the cops
On the day that I got arrested
I'm innocent I protested
She just feels rejected
Had her heart broken by
Someone she's obsessed with
She likes the sound of my music
Which makes her a fan of my music
That's why love goes down not to lose it
Cos she can't seperate the man from the music
And I'm saying all this in the stand
But my girl cries tears in the galleries
Got bigger than I ever could have planned
Like that song about the Zuton Valerie
So the jury don't look like they're buying it
And she's making me nervous
And I'm just screw faced like I'm trying it
Their eyes fixed on me like a murderer's
They wanna lock me up
And throw away the key
They wanna send me down
Even though I told them she
She said but I love you boy, I love your soul
She said I love you baby oh oh oh oh ohh
She said I love you more than words can say
She said I love you bayayayayayby
So I said, why the hell you gotta treat me this way
You don't know what love is
You wouldn't do this if you did
Oh no no no noo...

        - Welcome to Hell -


Welcome to hell
Welcome to hell that's what I heard them sing
Welcome to hell yeah
Oh we're so happy that you're here today

There's a warden waiting to meet me
As I make my way inside of the jail
He smiles at me ever so sweetly
And sends to me on route to my cell
Welcome to hell
Welcome to hell that's what I heard them sing
Welcome to hell yeah
Oh we're so happy that you're here today

Grins all up on their faces
Lookin so delighted I'm here
Murders, robbers and rapists
All shouting up in my ear
Welcome to hell
Welcome to hell that's what I heard them sing
Welcome to hell yeah
Oh we're so happy that you're here today

Put my brave face on
Can't let 'em know that I'm scared
Put my brave face on
Cos if they know then I'm dead
I put my brave face on
Can't let 'em know that I'm scared
I put my brave face on
And don't I know, don't I know, don't I know
Just how low, just how low, just how low
I've fallen down, I've fallen down
And I can see, I can see, I can see
What's in store for me, oh for me, oh for me
Fallin out, there's no way out now

Welcome to hell
Welcome to hell that's what I heard them sing
Welcome to hell yeah
Oh we're so happy that you're here today
Welcome to hell yeah
Welcome to hell that's what I heard them sing
Welcome to hell hey
Oh we're so happy that you're here today oh oh yeah

Put my brave face on
Can't let 'em know that I'm scared
I put my brave face on
Cos if they know then I'm dead
I put my brave face on
Can't let 'em know that I'm scared
I put my brave face on...

          - Lost my way -


Lost my way
Fell down a hole
No-ones gonna come
And save my soul
Lost my way
No going back
I'm stuck right here, and that is that!
Lost my way
Fell down a hole
No-ones gonna come
And save my soul
Lost my way
No going back
I'm stuck right here, and that is that!

Look around this manor and all you will see,
It's I'll manor people with there manors in there I'll
It's the manor person you've ever met in your manor
Or whatever your likely to meet in any manor cos this manors deep
You judge them on the life that they live
But then it's not all as black and white as it seems
There all some way enslaved in there circumstances.
Shape the way the behave on there battle on the street
That's why these kids ain't got no hope,
Walking round there estates thinking this is it
They ain't ever getting out and it's no joke
Probably is the best of live there ever gonna get.
They don't believe they can succeed
Or the opportunities you send back there really exist
Cos they've been told from every day from the minute they were born by
There fucked up parents that they ain't shit.
Mum and dad never made anything of them selves
Na, so why the hell are they gonna?
Schools a waste of time, there only gonna fail
There older brother went jail, why ain't they gonna?
I mean the hang with thugs, they sell drugs
Ain't afraid to put a couple slugs in you if you say something
They ain't all that way but you don't care either way
To you There all just the same a bunch of thugs
You used rap everyday
Looking for the devils pain
The young souls dad went to jail
Listen when you here them say

Lost my way
Fell down a hole
No-ones gonna come
And save my soul
Lost my way
No going back
I'm stuck right here, and that is that!

God said let there be light created Adam and Eve
Then he gave them eyes and told them both to both belive
Something they'd actually physically see
And then the devil came along and planted a seed
And down started growing from the ground like trees
Right up to the sky so profoundly seen
To be the only thing in this life that wasn't a dream
Made from stone still and iron beams
The council blocks to defining mean
And bullied the sky so that everybody can see
Some birds are caged and will never be free
And gradually people began to change there beliefs
Until god was nothing more than just a fictional being
The worship and money merged all colours and creed
Into one true religion that was driven by greed
Corporate machines trying to sell you shit you don't need
On television and the ad breaks in between
Until people only cared about material things
Not lives with other fellow human beings
And I'm guilty of it to or so it seems

Lost my way
Fell down a hole
No-ones gonna come
And save my soul
Lost my way
No going back
I'm stuck right here and that is that!

If you don't believe if something then you'll fall for anything
And if that happens then you've lost your way
If you don't believe if something then you'll fall for anything
And if that happens then you've lost your way
If you don't believe if something then you'll fall for anything
If you don't believe if something then you'll fall for anything
If you don't believe if something then you'll fall for anything
Fall for anything, fall for anything...

         - Dead and buried -


I'm dead and buried, oh yeah!

Hi my name is Jack and I'm living proof of a dead man walking
This spirit, this body that's still talking
It's too late to take precautions my whole worlds already fallen apart
Broke as easy as porcelain
And all because I didn't wear a hat when I fucked a yat
Now I wish I never even took her back to my flat
I've been cursed from my dick to the hearse
I can't think of nothing worse and it hurts
Cos all this pain I've inflicted on myself
Always thought casual sex would do me good never bad for my health
What a foolish thing to think, if I had an ounce of heart left it would probably sink
Now I'm on the brink of death
Seemingly there was nothing left for me too look forward to in this life I leave
I'm at my wits end and I can no longer pretend to be a happy person when... I'm dead and buried!

I'm dead and buried oh yeah
There ain't no hope left for me in this world no
I'm dead already
Can never live in heaven when I live in hell
I'm living in hell!

Hi, my name is Alex and I'm a drug addict name any illegal substance on this planet
I've had it, leave anything valuable lying around and I'll grab it
I'll do absolutely anything to support my habit
Cos without my buzz I'm a nervous wreck
An insecure smackhead running out of veins to inject
Reality checks get me so upset, gonna make me realise my life's a fucking mess
And I ain't got no where to go cos my family hates me!
Paranoia sets in and the whole worlds against me, so I buy another 20 bag of scag
Take it all in one go like an arsehole being fucked by a fag
And all my worries get washed away in an instant
Yo as soon as the rush hits my brain there's a distance
Between fact and fiction the truth hurts so much though I've Become a slave to this addiction
I owe dangerous people money I can't afford to pay
Every penny gets spent on this Buzz my body craves, it's man made
A grade, powder with a dark shade I'm too far gone now to ever be saved... I'm Dead and buried!

I'm dead and buried oh yeah
There ain't no hope left for me in this world no
I'm dead already
Can never live in heaven when I live in hell
I'm living in hell!

Alright, listen up, can't tell you my name for legal purposes cos I'm a convicted felon
Looking at 15 years inside and I'm Only 27, court told me they'd knock it down to at least 11
On good behaviour get bail after reduced sentence
But things ain't looking good for me back at the scrubs
Already caught up in world of violence and drugs
Walked into this shit with my eyes closed looking a mug
Came in as a man now it's turning me out as a thug
I've shank twin mates Already, one of them's dead
The other's close to recovering and is after my head
There's nothing I can do now 'cos I've Made my bed
Just gonna have to lie in it and watch where I tread
Yo! I made a mistake and I know that now
The only reason I'm in here is cos I thought somehow that what I was doing was right
When I loaded up that shotgun and Attempted to end that mans life
Yo, what the fuck would you do if you was in my position?
Found out your sisters been Beaten into submission
By her own boyfriend on the floor of her own kitchen
And violently raped by him as he tells her to stop bitching
Yeah, you'd do the exact same thing as me
Play God with a sawn off and cap him in his knee
You'd chop his balls of if you had the opportunity
Cut his dick in half and leave him with only an inch to pee!
Only to find out that it was all in vain
Cos your dumb bitch of a sisters got back together with him again
They're engaged to get Married, you're going insane
Contemplating a life in prison where you're gonna remain! You're dead and buried!

Oh yeah
I'm dead and buried
As good as already half dead
Dunno if I got any heart left
I'm dead and buried
As good as my time past yeah
Might as well be six feet under in a casket
I'm dead and buried
As good as already half dead
Dunno if I got any heart left
I dunno if I got any heart left.

            - Deepest shame -


There's no way back from here
On out
Only one place left to go
One place left to go
Now
She's crashing like an airplane
From the sky from the storming rain
Another pilot she's a flying eight
Hit her target a kamikaze go up in flames
This life is taught she must pay
Pay the price for her mistakes
I guess she only has herself to blame
And to her that's the deepest shame
There's no way back from here
On out
Only one place left to go
One place left to go
Now
She was once a princess
But now she's a mess
A fiend for a fix like the rest
Eliciting sex and pocket less
But she was a sweet fiend never the less
Back in the day abused as a child
She was always likely to end up this way
The past lived in the dark parts of the brain
And only heroin seemed take away the pain
So she folded at the voyeur and lit the flame
Inhale exhale out once again she's on the game
The unit on her face and going rate
Just not the name of only herself to blame
She lives the hell
But there's a millions other girls just like her
Shell out in the streets with nothing else to sell
To these desperate Mels have it in themselves so

There's no way back from here
On out
Only one place left to go
One place left to go
Now

There's no way back from here
On out
Only one place left to go
One place left to go
Now

I been walking alone this dirty road
Been so long now I just can't tell
If there's any way back the way I came
Though I've lost my path is the deepest shame
I been dragging myself to the lowest of low
There's such a way I just don't know
If the path I take is something I can change
Well if it's in my way is the deepest shame

There's no way back from here
On out
Only one place left to go
One place left to go
Now...

         - I am the narrator -


I'll be that...
Lyrical rater, social commentator
Socially commentating, what I say's verbaton
Verbal stipulator, oral illestrater
Orally illestrating, what I'm stipulatin

Drugs rule everything around me
Thugs makin' money
My manor manor's I'll ya'll, I'll ya'll
Pushers on my block, shottin' rock
This is real yo
Bitches suckin' cocks, for them rocks
Yey they will though
Prossies on the corner with the fuckin' high heels on
Pick 'em up, drop 'em off
Yey they ride real strong
Crack addicts lookin' for other addicts to steal from
Walkin' round wondering where they'll get their next meal from
Coke heads, on the reds, sniffin' up their wages
Dealers on speed dial suckin' all their papers
Still on the same number that they've had for fuckin' ages
Sim card so old, the logo's fuckin' faded
But turn it over an' ya see the gold nugget
Reflectin' off the light that shines down above it
Unregisted shit, you gotta love it
"Pay As You Go" so the feds don't bug it
Twitter for the Streets, if you want Tweets
Eleven little digits an' the blow is all you need
Tell me what's your poison, they got everythin' from weed
Up to Meth Anphetamine, everybody follow me
An' join up to their antisocial network
Database 'o smack, coke an' crack smokin' experts
Without it they'ed go outta business, they'ed no longer get work
So anybody tryna fuck with it's gonna get hurt

Lyrical rater, social commentator
Socially commentating, what I say's verbaton
Verbal stipulator, oral illestrater
Orally illestrating, what I'm stipulatin

Are you sittin' comfortably?
Well put your seatbelts on, 'Cause your in for a harrowing ride.
Cause this is I'll Manors, were dark shit goes on at night.
I am the narrator.
The voice that guides the blind, folowing not with your ears but your mind.
An' alow me to take you back, an' forth through time.
To explain the significance of things you may think are insignificant now.
But won't... farther down the line!

          - Darkest place -


I'm in the darkest place
I think I've ever been
You can see from the scars on my face
I'm not where I'm supposed to be

All alone
Why have you forsaken me?
All alone
You make it hard to believe

I'm in the darkest place
And I don't just mean this jail
In my mind there's a darkest space
Trapped in an even darker cell
You got to see it to believe it's true
That's why it's so hard to believe in you
Stay real, but you got to have faith
But I wondered where you were when I needed you
When that girl was telling lies in the court
With her hand on the Bible, where was the lightning?
The great vengeance, furious anger that Samuel.
L.J. made sound so frightening
She attempted to poison a brother
And I mean it in a Biblical sense, not a black way
She succeeded to destroy that brother
It's deep; you can make a fool battle out of laughing
She just did it for the money for the cash, eh?
I bet she's rolling in it now she's famous
You must think that's fair considering
I got to deal with man who want to feel a new anus
So you save up a months worth of fags
And trade them for a shank along with your trainers
And you take a man's life with your make-shift
Knife 'cause this isn't you, messed up your
Brain is.

I'm in the darkest place
I think I've ever been
You can see from the scars on my face
I'm not where I'm supposed to be

All alone
Why have you forsaken me?
All alone
You make it hard to believe

Are you real or a myth?
Is there a heaven or just an abyss?
Sometimes I wonder if you even exist
cause if you do then you're taking the piss
I don't deserve this why are you torturing me God?
We both know something ain't right here
It's been two whole months
Since I killed that man and I'm still having nightmares
It was just self-defence
But try telling that to my conscience
My head's in a real bad way
But even when I tell you, you ignore me like its nonsense
I was being attacked on a daily basis
I had to do something
And it weren't like you were going to intervene at any
Point 'cause you never do nothing
Just I thought you'd sent me an angel
When the second man tried put the first cut in
And got stabbed instead, but now I know
That was just in my head, not the hole that I'm stuck in
Cause if he really was an angel you sent
He wouldn't be trapped in this jail with me
Spread out his wings and fly
Get out of this hell-hole quickly
That's how I know you're a fake
That's how I know you're a lie
That's how I know you're a made-up fictional character that
Lives in the sky
Yeah it's all just a con
It's all just a scam
God ain't real
It's just a sham.

I'm in the darkest place
You can see from the scars on my face
Ooh yeah

I'm in the darkest place
I think I've ever been
You can see from the scars on my face
I'm not where I'm supposed to be

All alone
Why have you forsaken me?
All alone
You make it hard to believe

I'm in the darkest place
I think I've ever been
You can see from the scars on my face
I'm not where I'm supposed to be

All alone
Why have you forsaken me?
All alone...