When The Chips Are Down

[Verse 1: Cee] Yo, yo if somebody had told me as a kid that I'd be standing in the snow In Montreal with my girl, writing rhymes on my phone 32 and with a dream that be arriving in the fall Homie, I'd have laughed it right on off But yo I'm smiling now, coz even when the chips have been down I never fretted, I just sweated all the rhetoric out And that's a lie, I was buggin' hard Every little setback had me stressing like I ain't doing my fucking job See, the music is the only thing I truly want And I believe that I can do it so I'm going hard I left my family to follow my heart And it's the hardest thing I ever fuckin' did, word is born But yo I'm lucky coz my brother with me He understand and dog he right here in the struggle with me That's my man, and time is limited, we hustle quickly So every time the chips is down, we take the lesson and we vibe to fix it, so listen yeah [Hook: Cee] When the (When the chips are down) Yeah, you gettin' right back up (When the chips are down) Yeah, Mahdi, uh, let's go, ah! (When the chips are down) Yeah (When the chips are down) [Verse 2: Cee] Uh, OK, you know you got a passion when the fuckin' downs Occurring more than things is up but still you stick around It never mattered that the chances that we had was fat We gotta try coz if we don't, we gotta live with that And back home, they'd love to tell us We gotta change the way that we spitting so we could sell it We told em 'eat a dick' and made our art some of the realest And now we out in Canada and fuckin' with the majors Yeah, but there was times I nearly threw it in Actually in Toronto, I let it go a bit I was tired as fuck, sick of rhyming and wasting time promoting It didn't last long, bitch it ain't a joke ting So I'm learning how to master my shit My lady taught me how to keep all my emotions in check And through the music I'm expressing every part of my being Though times is rough but that's a part of it, believe 'til I see it, I'm fiendin' yeah [Hook: Cee] When the (When the chips are down) Yeah, you gettin' right back up, man (When the chips are down) Montreal, what's good? (When the chips are down) Uh uh, yeah (When the chips are down) [Verse 3: Cee] Uh, and even though I was born on an island I never really felt at home back in my land I'm kinda different, see I roamed on a flight path And realised that up north where I belong, damn So we did the shit, plus we figured why stay when the love there But we never thought to stay'd be a prob, yeah So what the motherfuck's the Commonwealth for? Yo I been working, I was almost on the honour roll, boy And yo I thought I knew what stress was, homie I'm messed up Only way to cope was drink beer and ingest bud But my lady had a plan T-Dot had been real, but MTL is where the papers be at We spending thousands on a French class Steady building with the scene, and make a case so I be staying in Quebec man This really home so how the fuck they finna lock me out? They try to push me but they never gonna knock me down, who finna stop me now? [Hook: Cee] When the (When the chips are down) Yeah yeah, you gettin' right back up, yo (When the chips are down) Uh uh, come on (When the chips are down) T-Dot, what's crackin'? Yeah, listen (When the chips are down) [Verse 4: Cee] Eh yo the system tried to stop me man Coz it's created in a way to make us slaves again They found a way to keep us dumb and never questioning Coz how the fuck are you explaining the Kardashians But I'm sayin', this is serious, the people awakening We hit a new age so it's changing the state we in We gotta keep the energy positive, arrêt with the politics Crash the debt and jet from all the heavenly scholarships It ain't conspiracy, it's documented fact We losing freedoms so it's time we fuckin' get em back In '03, my boy showed me David Icke on disc And homie I ain't never looked back since See the truth is important There may be bliss in ignorance, that's the raw end We need to know just who we are, we got the god in us So when you feeling down, look inside and raise up in your own image, so dig it