Lirik Estelle 1980
- in a 4-bedroom house
- my family, my grandma,
- 3 or 4 aunties
- uncles and brothers
- in and out of prison daily
- at certain times when there was no heat
- we stay under covers
- there was life like u never seen
- grandma taking extra people in
- come dinner time it was tippin' 18
- boil a big pot of water on the stove to take a bath
- rub my face with olive oil
- all my mates used to laugh
- all my cousin's moved out
- we all got divided
- as i started to get older i seen god providing
- i've seen £50 last 3 months solid
- i got my first pair of nikes we were still eating porridge
- me and my cousin used to play mel & kim
- practising dancin'
- coming down the stairs and ting
- i touched africa and came back darker
- knowing myself
- feeling my roots a little bit harder
- 1980 year that god made me
- 89 i started to get by
- 99 i started to write rhymes
- walk with me reminice my life
- so then we moved up
- i thought i was the fresh prince
- dynasty was re-runs and dallas was faded
- with 3 beds this time and 6 kids
- we got a doggy that dog loved to shit
- my brother got his first pair of la gears
- he thought they were to take pictures of instead of wear
- i started hanging out and my jeans got tighter
- my weird neighbours set their own house on fire
- church was all day every day and every week
- that's where i learned how to sing
- hearing that pastor preach
- benediction was all we went for
- so we could run home and play connect 4
- mum worked late and we learnt to cook
- rice peas chicken and stew pea soup
- in the room watching kung-fu films
- and cleopatra joans
- wishing we were cosby kids and the match stick girls.
- the man downstairs was dead for 3 weeks
- his own cat started eating him
- the house starts to wreak
- that's when we moved out
- and our house was bigger
- we had a large garage and the attic was killer
- we used to pray for 3 hours in the mornin'
- sitting on the school bus
- believe we was yawning
- all our hair was stuck down to our foreheads
- jam curls, splits, dorags and pin curls yes
- sexy boys walking round showing interest
- in what i don't know coz we all had flat chests
- don't think we never mastered the kid n play steps
- doowop for days in the bogle yep
- but this is just the beginning of my life right,
- 9 kids a house and one life time
- yo, the beginning of my life right
- 9 kids a house in one life time
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