L.S.O.M

Danger

I was playing with flames in my palms

For the pay and the garms, put trust in a stranger

Both black eyes on the Ps

Had the bankrolls stashed and the risk grew greater

It's funny I was dishing out trees

Now I'm running with jeans that are filling with paper

Gonna be gunning for your shorty, shortly

Surely

Used to reside in Morley's

Rentals, skrrred in an all black track with J

We were cutting through lanes like Tory

They don't wanna war me

I talk facts but they don't wanna hear my stories

And everybody putting me down like am I gonna feel my glory?

Only God knows how I leaped and escaped this madness

ATMs, didn't leave back no crumbs

I was tryna mash work on a Nat-West

Feelings, lost it, looking so heartless

Damn, I was seeming clueless

Burned out but I made it

Took more twists and turns than a cube from Rubik's

Doubts and flaws, that the world might judge

These scars can't heal with plasters

Could've been right there with the olders

Sorry but I couldn't let go of no chances

Reckless ventures, I was accepting tension

There was no erasing past

Teachers, tutors, keep it moving

Hope for the near, tryna make it last

The London state of mind

These crime rates high

Everyone's mouth just filled with lies

Veterans hate, when I needed help

They didn't want to hear out my cries

Nights get worse when the years go on

They don't wanna just let you shine

This that London state of mind

The London state of mind

These crime rates high

Everyone's mouth just filled with lies

Veterans hate, when I needed help

They didn't want to hear out my cries

Nights get worse when the years go on

They don't wanna just let you shine

This that London state of mind

Patience

Stains and thieves tryna make us bleed

Over respect from that Gs who are wasted

Look, mummy, I'm gonna be the greatest

Now I'm ridden of a fate that's tainted

Heart still gated

I can never open up to a chick who's in it for the payment

Going through phases, feeling outdated

If I was face to face with God, what would I say?

Would I question his works, reveal myself

God knows I'm stuck in my ways

Sun's out, guns out, looking for a bussdown

Can't trust, can't run out of luck now

Upset, I was sitting with the wrong crowd

Somebody told me every minute does count

Who's that guy with the braids and the bars

And the elegant flows? Oh yeah that's me

You ain't ever seen no kids like us

I was carrying shapes in the school canteen

Late night hurting, thinking back

About all of the times I was swinging in vain

Didn't even know I was back then

Now it's different, I'm tryna make a killing in the game

Them neighbours watched with the windows down

All Gucci, they could never stop this grind

And I know I lost peers from the things I fear

But I'm hustling day till night

It's real, man, mummy's got debts

Real when I'm getting those texts

They all know I'm up next

Gets real tryna gather those cheques

When your heart dies out

Gets real tryna cover that rent

The London state of mind

These crime rates high

Everyone's mouth just filled with lies

Veterans hate, when I needed help

They didn't want to hear out my cries

Nights get worse when the years go on

They don't wanna just let you shine

This that London state of mind

The London state of mind

These crime rates high

Everyone's mouth just filled with lies

Veterans hate, when I needed help

They didn't want to hear out my cries

Nights get worse when the years go on

They don't wanna just let you shine

This that London state of mind