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