Sorry We're Still Here
Doc Brown
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Now let me take you to a place
Where everyone 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 2020s
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
You don't see us
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But we're still here
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But we're still here
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But we're still here
Wonder how he got the gift of the gab
When he grew up on the Kilburn High Road
Is he mad (is he mad)
Manna Burn manna 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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All in the gutter looking up at the stars
Forever chasing them
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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