In a Gang

[Intro:] (Answerphone Message) Message from myself it’s Mary Think you’re absolutely brilliant When you’re coming to Dublin, let me know I’ll be right there in a ‘Crack a Smile’ T-shirt Singing all your lyrics, I love you Take Care, bye, bye (Verse 1) [Mic Righteous] He’s from the gutter like ‘set me free’ Cooking something from his kitchen Like ‘test me please’ If you don’t love me, let me be He’s just another number in the empty streets Society! Has labelled him a violent freak Society! Has got him try’n’a hide from police Society! Has made him wanna ride the streets Society! Is the reason he is like he is So what now? School, he dropped out His momma told him not to roll with the wrong crowd Like “Look at you , you’re whole life’s gone downhill” “All your mandem are white like cow’s milk” Look Mum, he’s hooked up And he’s on drugs and in handcuffs Sitting in a cell ‘cos the feds can’t stand you Going H-A-M cos he can, fuck yeah he’s in a gang… [Hook 1] Fuck yeah he’s in a gang Just take a look at his surroundings All he’s got is his mandem around him He’s a boy but he thinks he’s a man Look Mum no hands and he bangs [Hook 2] x 2 Fuck yeah he’s in a gang He says it’s just who I am So fuck if they understand Cos I do what I want, they can do what they can Aggy town, council housing Just look at his surroundings Hoods and baggy trousers, crooks is all around him Crooks hanging around him, keep pulling him down The ends are nothing without him Feds are coming to hound him They wanna get him on lockdown He’s moving weight and moving bait across town But who’s to blame for the way that he’s gone down? He lost out on a good childhood But wouldn’t change it if he could The child’s hood… and the hood’s full of soldiers That look up to the olders He does exactly what he’s told ‘Cos he feels like he owes them, Yo! A victim in his own house He wouldn’t listen when his mother said sit down He got kicked out for having a big mouth And now she’s bitching cos he’s mixing with the wrong crowd He got thrown out and thrown in the deep end Now he sees sense cos he don’t need them ‘Cos shit was getting bad ‘til he met a bag of man And they all let him jam if he let the hammers bang Fuck yeah he’s in a gang… [Hook 1] x 2