Key: F# minor
Verse 1
Gm
Dm
Gm
Yeah, I was born in Stoke Newington,
Stokey from old city
Dm
Where concrete is over trees and all
dreams get cut and bleed
Gm
Walking free, when I was young
I used to duck and weave
C
Dm
Playing up in Clissold Park and laughing
Gm
in that London breeze
'93, I was a three year old
with many schemes
Dm
Junior playing football skills
of Arsenal just like they call me
Gm
Sticker books remember wrestling
C
the young'n takin' I was phased
Dm
Used to idolize when he gave
Gm
you a break- up
I was in a nursery making story cakes,
Dm
fell in love
For the first time I remember days
Gm
When I was bullied, beat up,
then kicked and slapped away
Dm
Clutching on the monkey bars
and hoping they'd all go away
Gm
Loved them city sounds and sirens
in the dark at night
Dm
Helicopters fly above my head,
I'd never get a fright
Gm
I loved them early days,
living in that constant noise
Dm
Bustle in my ear was like music
Gm
to this little boy
Verse 2
Dm
Sometimes we go and forget where we
came from
And we don't know
Gm
Sometimes we go and forget
Dm
where we came from
Gm
And we don't know
Sometimes we go and forget
Dm
where we came from
Gm
And we don't know
Dm
Yeah, we don't know
Verse 3
Gm
July '94, we packed up
and closed the door
Dm
Every note was now just
some image I'm returning to
Gm
What we left behind, my friends,
my cousins, relatives
Dm
My birthplace,
Gm
my first taste of how to live and how to give
Hackney down's playin'
fuses the memories
Dm
Sittin' on the boat,
crying that was all that's meant to be
Gm
I was scared of startin' school
Dm
again; will some be all rude again?
Beat me up and treat me like a fool again.
Gm
The green emerald a thousand
welcomes negative,
Dm
Growin' up a ? an outsider
never settled quick
Gm
Settling was hard when
you're treated like a lump of shit
Dm
Saying you were black and tan
and come for what you fucking did
Gm
But I never did nothing,
told 'em that so many times
Dm
Got in scuffles screamed out loud sayin'
Gm
shit like maybe they were right
I hate that history,
Dm
I hate that Union Jack
Verse 4
I'll never speak for any man or any flag
Gm
Sometimes we go and forget
Dm
where we came from
And we don't know
Gm
Sometimes we go and forget
Dm
where we came from
Gm
And we don't know
Sometimes we go and forget
Dm
where we came from
Gm
And we don't know
F
Dm
Yeah, we don't know
Verse 5
Gm
Dm
Sit tin' back, staring through the haze
of that road on that beaten child
Gm
Dm
Sittin' back, staring through the haze
of that road on that beaten child
Gm
It was like I'm in a beast of a lion
Dm
and me peacefully dying
I had no friends that I could ever rely on
Gm
I was sittin' back, watchin' through the haze of
Dm
that road on that beaten child
But keeping that evil intact
I put the beat to track
Gm
Found freedom, found out
Dm
I could be myself,
I'll find my world through my roots back
Gm
Dm
I never wanted to adapt or in fact
take an action over night
That for years they told
me "Fuck facts"
Gm
Dm
Verse 6
Gm
Sometimes we go and forget
Dm
where we came from
And we don't know
Gm
Sometimes we go and forget
Dm
where we came from
Gm
Dm
And we don't know
Gm
Dm
Gm
Dm
Gm
Sometimes we go and forget
Dm
where we came from
Gm
And we don't know
Outro 1
Yeah, we don't know
Dm
Gm
Dm
Gm
C
Dm
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