Slicker Than Your Average

Yo, Craig

There's some real jealous people out there right

Trying to say how you're whack, how your music's soft

And you ain't got nothing to say

Well, it's album number two, right?

So you gotta let 'em know

So do your thing, take your time, speak your mind (Listen)

Ever since I first stepped up

They thought I wasn't good enough, no

They told me that I'd only last one song

(That's foolish, man, what's it like now? Seven million albums?)

They said I wasn't from the streets

When I was working behind the scenes

Shit like this don't happen overnight, no, no

While they're telling me

About my imagery

How I'm so squeaky clean whenever I'm on TV

Too much jealousy

In the industry

Why are you watching me when you should just let me be?

(Slicker than your average)

Tell me, what do you want from me?

(Slicker than your average)

Tell me, what do you want from me?

(Slicker than your average) Hey

Tell me, what do you want from me?

(Slicker than your average)

So tell me what you want from me

Some people say it's been too long

That's why I'm here to prove them all wrong

So why do imitators want to bite my style?

(Ladies and gentlemen, will the real Craig David please stand up?)

You never had a problem at all

When I was having woman trouble

Somebody fill me in, didn't I serve my time?

Remember who gave you "Rewind"

While they're telling me

That I'm too R&B

How I turned right back up the whole UK garage scene

Now they're stressing me

When I know there's much more to see

Why are you watching me when you should just let me be?

(Slicker than your average)

Oh, tell me, what do you want from me?

(Slicker than your average)

Tell me, what do you want from me?

(Slicker than your average) Hey

Tell me, what do you want from me?

(Slicker than your average)

So tell me what you want from me

Everywhere that I go

(Everywhere that I go)

They keep stopping my flow

(They keep stopping my flow)

Everywhere that I go

(Everywhere that I go)

They keep stopping my flow

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

There comes a time

When you've got to take a step to do what's right

(As much as I like)

(I can't possibly please everyone)

Slicker than your average, singer serving garage

Busy trying to slam me 'cause I smashed it

Well, they don't understand us, I'm hitting, I'm established

By taking British music to the masses

The gold diggers go bananas

The same ones that didn't show me no love when I was cashless

In the day when it really mattered

When I was penning competition, no publishing hits for damage

Now the gold go to me, so minimal

I'm involved in the platinum plaques and records sold

Heaven knows that I've had a producer with ego

And there were those that were told exactly where to go

Somebody please stop these little kids

They want to pull bumpers off my 206

Shouting outside of the block I used to live

They don't like my records, so why listen to this?

(Slicker than your average)

Tell me, what do you want from me?

(Slicker than your average)

Tell me, what do you want from me?

(Slicker than your average) Hey

Tell me, what do you want from me?

(Slicker than your average)

So tell me what you want from me

(Everywhere that I go)

Baby, telling me that I can rock with the show

(They keep stopping my flow)

People screaming and screaming, tryna stop my flow

(Everywhere that I go)

I wanna tell the world and let them know

(They keep stopping my flow)

So tell me what you want from me

(Everywhere that I go)

Oh, oh, oh, oh

(They keep stopping my flow)

(Everywhere that I go)

(They keep stopping my flow)