Next Of Kin - Ghetts/Rukhsana Merrise.mp3

[00:00.462][Verse 1: Ghetts]
[00:09.408]The mum don't speak
[00:10.672]She had a front row seat to her son going sleep for eternity
[00:13.867]One don’t see what don't concern me
[00:15.607]But she opened up to me personally and I show her love 'cause it burns me
[00:18.932]Nobody’s mum don't deserve this
[00:21.194]Over some drugs it's disturbing
[00:22.940]He ain't no angel, But I ain't so perfect
[00:24.858]And I see my mum in his mum like she birthed me
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[00:27.633][Bridge: Confect]
[00:27.872]Memories gold and cursed
[00:29.175]Other people around us
[00:32.034]Money ain't everything
[00:36.623]I call on blessings
[00:38.862]Not just for me but
[00:41.081]Protecting my next of kin
[00:43.890]You know, my bros
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[00:44.865][Verse 2: Ghetts]
[00:45.472]She told me I resemble him - eyes, nose and everything
[00:48.060]Went the same school, but I don't remember him
[00:50.288]He was much younger
[00:51.451]And I was probably there before the psycho had settled in
[00:53.709]Five-O arrested him
[00:54.962]Same book, I know the story too well
[00:57.230]20-20, I already saw it too well
[00:59.376]These man are checking scoreboard, they wanna war and do well
[01:01.473]It's never called for, even when it’s afforded you well
[01:03.795]So I know what’s happening today
[01:05.926]Can't turn the cheek when they slap me in my face
[01:08.201]Just like the wars you label off of
[01:10.882]Everybody’s playing the blame game, it's your fault
[01:13.229]Generations down the line
[01:14.766]We've forgotten how it started
[01:16.109]Man are just hopping out of cars with tools and popping out apartments
[01:19.542]Mummy don't understand the logic in this carnage
[01:21.801]We falls, and possibly our fathers
[01:24.229]Must be a robber or an arsonist
[01:26.354]Well I have been a robber in the past tense
[01:28.197]Festival seasons, soon, come on, coming like Robin when I pass tents
[01:31.866]She said I sound like her son did
[01:33.441]I said I wish I could’ve met him 'cause he sounds like the one kid
[01:36.564]I probably could've reached before a gun did
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[01:38.972][Bridge: Confect]
[01:40.826]Life is like a candle in the wind
[01:42.960]Don't protect me and my friends
[01:45.336]There's a beauty hidden in the mess
[01:47.605]Help me see heaven in the end
[01:49.759]Appreciate the ones we have left
[01:52.093]Long as everyone's blessed
[01:54.248]Only thing that matters in the end
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[01:57.120][Verse 3: Rukhsana Merrise]
[02:03.578]I know you're probably thinking
[02:05.523]Who's calling?
[02:07.991]'Cause I know it's late, I've run out of places to run to
[02:12.235]But this couldn't wait
[02:13.515]'Cause I miss my baby
[02:15.182]No, you can't replace, no, you couldn't save him
[02:18.383]Blame me instead, 'cause [?]
[02:21.238]Pick your fights, or pick your flight
[02:24.297]We're the only ones who can lose your life
[02:26.364]I'm on my way, I'm on my car
[02:28.506]We're the only ones who can lose your love
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[02:37.055][Verse 4: Ghetts]
[02:40.524]I called out for my mum with my last breath (mama, mama)
[02:45.062]Now I'm just another son in a casket
[02:47.973]And mummy wants answers
[02:48.783]She don't have a clue why I deserve this
[02:51.103]She probably think I died a virgin
[02:54.862]But I was riding, lurking
[02:57.792]Firing, bursting
[02:58.574]And now the beef's squashed, I been gone for a decade
[03:01.039]No-one comes to the cemetery regularly
[03:03.110]For the block I lick shots like Pelé
[03:05.522]But now I'm just a distant memory, if anything
[03:07.728]Mum's the only one who stopped living when I did
[03:09.587]Most my bruddas got sons and they live in the nice bit
[03:11.935]They took the drugs and the guns and put it behind 'em
[03:14.139]But nobody reps for the hood like I did
[03:16.519][Bridge: Confect]
[03:16.831]Memories gold and cursed
[03:18.422]Other people around us
[03:21.152]Money ain't everything
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[03:26.424][Sample: Peter Kirkham]
[03:50.404]“I really don't understand why they are not treating this as the emergency that it is.
[03:54.937]It's a public disaster happening in slow motion in front of our eyes.
[03:59.271]If these young people were white and they were on the streets of Maidenhead in her constituency and in Windsor,
[04:08.225]there would be an utter uproar. It would not be ignored.
[04:12.887]This is institutional racism at the heart of Government. – It's a simple as that.”
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[04:16.859][Outro: Singing Soul Sirens]
[04:17.532]Help me see heaven in the end
[04:19.503]Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:21.779]Long as everyone's blessed
[04:24.058]Only thing that matters in the end
[04:26.480]Help protect me and my friends
[04:28.181]Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:30.761]Long as everyone's blessed
[04:32.975]Only thing that matters in the end
[04:35.549]Help protect me and my friends
[04:37.804]Appreciate the ones we have left
[04:40.051]Long as everyone's blessed
[04:42.316]Only thing that matters in the end