System Child

Yeah I ain't been around Been around for a minute I had great ambitions But these olders tried to kill it They tried to bury me in the ground I had risen I'm just a lost child Lost child in the system I ain't been around Been around for a minute I had great ambitions But these olders tried to kill it They tried to bury me in the ground I had risen I'm just a lost child Lost child in the system How do you reach the top if you don't sell your soul? They told me hard work is they way it goes I say it's a facade 'cause I did the most Still I'm underrated like an undercard I'm the main event I land in New York City, don't keep tabs on what I spent I help my brothers out I don't keep tabs on what I lend I'm thinking 'bout the times where eviction was the threat And my mama had no rent I had a mattress but no bed Fill scorps with 32s Zeppelin with the led No cooperation on my side with any feds That's a fact In the jungle like a lion But I'm surrounded by these rats They all claim to stick to codes But I've seen paperwork it's mad Huh I love mine do you love yours I got mine do you got yours I was the one they called the lost cause I was the one they called the lost cause I ain't been around Been around for a minute I had great ambitions But these olders tried to kill it They tried to bury me in the ground I had risen I'm just a lost child Lost child in the system I ain't been around Been around for a minute I had great ambitions But these olders tried to kill it They tried to bury me in the ground I had risen I'm just a lost child Lost child in the system Before the streets we got some gangsters and some mutuals Since Y-O-I socks full of snooker balls 36 I'm with some suspects yeah the usuals I copped two bussdowns when I was new to jewels I hear them rapping real gangsta I know that fools the fools I told my teacher suck a dick I'm too cool for school She said it's hard not to love me how I carry myself I carried nanny and my aunty at their funerals I swear my lifestyles wicked like the musical You used to love me Now I'm someone that you used to call I still got it for the low that's food for thought I've been a king with my crown I ain't new to court Just a kid in the system had me traumatised On the phone to my nan, don't make me bawl my eyes I got pain in my heart but it's normalised God knows that I ain't seeing shit with normal eyes I ain't been around Been around for a minute I had great ambitions But these olders tried to kill it They tried to bury me in the ground I had risen I'm just a lost child Lost child in the system I ain't been around Been around for a minute I had great ambitions But these olders tried to kill it They tried to bury me in the ground I had risen I'm just a lost child Lost child in the system