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Reece Nov 2013
The bass hits hard in the back seat of a car
Passing zoots back & forth, here we are
Hoods up, the man dem looking for war
Pistol gripped, left hand, and we're sure
Trying to **** a man tonight for the cause
Man got the cash, that's right, that's ours
Trying to get that food for the fight, for the boys
Animals in black masks holding their toys

Orders from above as we arrive at the spot
To the place where the man-a get popped
Shifty looking bloke in a hood, we've been clocked
Every man rush from the car on the block
Running with the crew with my hand on my... glock
Round the corner, right towards the shops
At that point the man we pursue just stops
At that point all we hear is gun shots
Rodney got shot, Malcolm got shot
Barry got shot, Marvin got shot
Mans on the roof picking us off like dogs
I let the banger blare, but I know I lost the plot

Took a hasty retreat on my lonesome in the dark
Made a left by the pub and ended up at the park
Man still chasing me, I know they're not far
I need to get back to my crew and the car
I'll probably be dead before I get past the bar
I kept on towards my estate, just to be sure
No long ting, I don't want a grand tour
Shook the man off when I got to my door

But when I got inside, the only thing that I saw
The faces of my dead friends and a land of no law
For all the fallen in Nottingham and the World. RIP.
Stop the violence.
Samuel Francis Jul 2013
24
I hear that old jungle playing
lost in a series of drum loops
we bun zoots, let out fears and exchange glances
dancing away those fears, through our shuffles and prances.
Everything tackled in a hard-headed manner
do it this way not, that way
and if not I'm not bothered
"I'd rather be robbing, or out in woods *******"
say the ones who are bored.
Truth is we're all bored, stuck in the rat race.
No time to get space, no time to breath
Desperate for a reprieve, a rebate or a chance to go out and become a state.
This great wide world it'll hurt you
make you insignificant
If you allow it too.
I won't allow it too
so i shout louder, take more powder
and power through.
This way or that way we all end up in the same place
that earthy bed, just dust in space.
No noise now, like living in a vacuum
depth or meaning seems irrelevant in the face of this absurdity.
"Oh really, its just me?"
Relax, relax, re-lax, its all OK
no its not OK, its rotten and it'll be the same tomorrow and the next day.
Guess that it, all I've got to say.
So,
you want to try them, take out your brains and fry them, do drugs then, in the background the ex ****** just shrugs.

But first let me tell you that the bell you can hear rings for you in your youth, the truth of it is, the bells start to toll, for the more drugs you do and the older you get and you think it is easy to trip out and forget, the bells never do and you'll find very quickly they're tolling for you.

But let's not go through that old story, here's another,
do drugs, the ex ****** still shrugs but he's listening now,
first to go will be your teeth, your *** drive, the thing you thought keeps you alive will be next, your friends follow suit and leave you to your zoots or aluminium foil and that's what fools you, like a magpie you get high, time flies by but the bell still tolls for the old man, that's you , do you still want to fry then, do you still want your **** to drop out of your pants, just try them.
  
The ex ****** who's been there in the round square where the pin table was as important to him as the pins that laid on it, escaped from it, not as loud now, somehow, but the bells still tell of a life spent digging out his veins in a hell of a place much worse than this.

Try then, kiss your **** goodbye then but I want you to know you won't be the first one to go and be forgotten except by the ones who still love you even after what you put those few through.  

If there was ever a rainbow that takes hold of imagination, when I get old, I'll tell you, when I get old, I'll bell you or will it be,
I told you so.
But I want to get in and get out of it
smoke some A one upper-class super ****,
all I can afford is a little bit
of ****.

Well
pardon me,
but
we all need a lift
some get it with ***
some with food
some in the ****
and some in suits
I get mine in
Zoots.
don't do drugs.
Off the cays

We got no life,
what! no life?
we got
no life at all.

We're rollin' zoots for the suits
and the suits suit themselves.

Half-starved and yet we're dragging our feet
almost as if we've got meat on our bones,
but bones is what we have come too,

I've seen you out there
with the
dead eyes and
lacklustre hair,
where
are those commercials now?

Sunday and to die a bit
we try a bit
of prayer,
I've also seen you there
head bowed
but
I thought you were drunk.
The Sky Butcher levitated to his Cumulus Mall. Picked up a chuck of air, seasoned it with cloud, sprinkled it with breeze. No chopping, no flattening.

In walked a customer. (Thought I cut some figure.) What's it gonna be? Looking for something to **** in. Well, got you a real soft Pigeon Breath. This one's gonna stay flapping inside you. Zoots me, I gotta fly.

In walked another customer. (Thought I knew my cuts of heat.) What's it gonna be? Looking for something to ******* away. Well, got you a prime T-Bone Twister. You'll never be found again. Pack it in, I'm packing up.

In walked yet another customer. (Thought I knew my meat & greet.) What's it gonna be? Looking for a smell that puts me unconcho. Well, got you some tender little Southpaw. Phoooo! I'm gone already.

Blasta, the Sky Butcher said to himself, I'm heavytating back to the flats. My meat's getting thin up here.

On his way home he saw a truck passing. Oxy-Gen, it said on the side. Genetically modified air, new to me. Gotta get me some second wind first thing tomorrow.

— The End —