Lyrics
When I was young, I knew this kid
Introduction of a person from the speaker's past
And his life was always madness
Describes the chaotic life of the mentioned person
His mum was on them crack rocks
Person's mother is addicted to crack cocaine
When he was young, his Dad left
Person's father left when they were young
Kids would call him 'have-not'
Person is labeled as 'have-not' by peers
And worse, I bet you can guess
Subject to negative name-calling (scummy, tramp, jack-pot)
Scummy, tramp, jack-pot
Continuation of negative labels
His mum's still at the crack spot
Mention of the person's mother still involved in drug use
He's hungry and he's hacked off
Person is hungry and frustrated
There's blood all down his tracktop
Describes physical injuries and struggles
Them bullies caught him slipping
Incident of bullying and violence
He curls up when they're kicking
Person reacts defensively to physical attack
Punching, biting, spitting
Details of the violent encounter
Now there's phones out with the cams on
Mentions onlookers recording the incident
He dies some more inside
Internal emotional pain during the incident
Then he cries when he gets stamped on
Emotional response to being physically hurt
It's damn wrong
Expresses disapproval of the situation
Any part of him that was man's gone
Loss of personal identity and dignity
They finally knocked him out, he saw a light and thought he'd found God
Person knocked out, briefly believing in a divine presence
Only then to wake, right back inside this town, lost
Reality sets in, person remains lost in their town
Cold but he don't care much, his only friend was Jack Frost
Reference to a cold environment, only friend is Jack Frost
His skinny little frame aches
Physical pain and discomfort described
There's cuts upon his grazed face
Details of injuries
Trying to find a safe way home, that may be long
Struggling to find a safe way home
He looks above and screams "Why'd you bring this hell on me?"
Expresses frustration and questions fate
At night I try and sleep but can't, I hear this song
Speaker hears the person's story in a recurring song
I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop
Describes the bleakness of the town
There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard
Comparison of the town to a graveyard
Well every day the problem seems to multiply
Problematic situations in the town are increasing
And everybody's keeping busy getting by
People busy trying to survive in difficult circumstances
Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry
The speaker can hear the collective cry of the city
It's just my city's lullaby
Describes the town as the speaker's lullaby
Years pass and he was chilling
Repetition of previous themes and events in the person's life
On this park bench spitting
-Freestyling to himself
-About his life, that it was hell
-When this crazy local villain
-Sat down and told him "Listen
-I've seen how hard your life has been, I think it's time I helped"
-If you like, you'll work for me, the boys will welcome you as well
-If you've got beef then we've got beef, we'll ride on them with shells
-You never deserved the cards you got
-Here's your chance to passed them off
-Take a gamble, cast the rod
-It's time you showed this world
-Says "Yeah man, fuck it
-I might as well be thugging
-This life has gave me nothing"
-Can feel inside himself, the accumulated hatred
-Was soon replacing basic
-Human moods a face with
-A past and you can tell
-But it's all about his future now
-Olders got him moving round
-Running guns, moving grams
-Flick-knife on his belt
-He's dying to use his blade though
-For years you made him scapegoat
-Now take note, you try him now, you're getting straight poked (Oh well)
-I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop
-There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard
-Well every day the problem seems to multiply
-And everybody's keeping busy getting by
-Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry
-It's just my city's lullaby
-He's the man now, stand down
-He's shotting up this mad town
-Taxing other shotters with yoggers and his mad pals
-I called him Sonic, wherever he went there was always tales
-Of clarat and vomit, I think he's trying to even the scale
-He feels euphoric, a hoodrat that was beaten down ironically giving the beatings now
-It's all evened out, a child that was screaming out
-Is a man with an evil scowl
-Oh shit! What's this?
-Someone that he's seen in town
-Used to punch him around (ho)
-Now he's reaching around (yo)
-And his heater is out so
-Now he's blasting rounds
-And his target's down
-Like Warren in Barking town
-And he's laughing proud
-His heart is drowned
-Nobody can save him now
-He's a monster made by man, Mary Shelly ain't around
-So this ain't no act of fiction
-When I find these words and fix 'em
-To the page to make you see where this child went off the rails (I'm done now)
-I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop
-There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard
-Well every day the problem seems to multiply
-And everybody's keeping busy getting by
-Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry
-It's just my city's lullaby
Reiteration of the town being a graveyard and its impact on its residents
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