Sorry We're Still Here ft. Tony Bones The Producer Lyrics

Sorry

Now let me take you to a place

Where every one of us was bruck pocket

Where every kid had potential

But how'd you unlock it

You just wanna demonstrate your excellence

Success is beckoning, but hear a siren

You either run or you duck from it

My sister wrote about the bits

And made a buck from it

Inspirational it had me saying fuck logic

Maybe disadvantages become our superpowers

Turn a working class experience to art

And make enough profit

I watch it back like it's a movie

More a documentary

Athlestan gardens on the Lane

You know the proper entry

No this ain't the 2020's

Get me this is last century

Dinner was corned beef hash

Wasn't Ottolenghi

Not got a penny, it was Sam's Chicken

Cos we ain't going south for Morley's

Yes, you guessed it

I'm talking North Weez

You see the shooters on the block

You can't ignore grease

Pure fiends

Oliver Twist like more please

Don't see us

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But we're still here

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Wonder how he got the gift of the gab

When he grew up on the Kilburn High Road

Is he mad? (is he mad)

Man a Burn man a Kill

Shoot on Shoot Up hill

Taking Black man's lives

Like the Ku Klux still

You had to have a strategy

Avoid assault and battery

Or be another photo on a tree

What a tragedy

False prophets wanna be the monarchy of Kingsbury

I seen them

Til his knees went in Neasden

Garage boys in their Armani

They got the fittest girls popping pills

Man was a gallis in Dollis Hill

And everywhere you look

It's people trying to survive

Turn a pound into five

Putting Kensal on the Rise

Get that GBP til we're earning

How ya mean

My Wembley man

Synonymous with Sterling like Raheem

And no it weren't a dream

These same streets made us

To get the house prices up

They're trying to erase us

Don't see us

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But we're still here

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You don't see us

You don't see us

All in the gutter looking up at the stars

Forever chasing em

Mixed Race Mongrels make a mockery of racism

We never had a word for multicultural

We lived it, grafting

Immigrants, putting a shift in

We weren't all shotting food

In the trap, on the news

The stereotypes become facts

You wanna prove

When some of us are shopkeepers

Doctors and nurses

Nannies to your babies

Drivers of your hearses

Mental health workers

Welders, Pharmacists

Retail, TfL, Builders, Architects

Can't forget the rest

Who entertain you with a passion

Sport, music, high culture

High fashion

Where you get your slang from

We're on to something new now

Know you wanna move in

As long as we move out

How they swing it

Making working class a dirty word

We're still here

With the greatest stories never heard

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