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Verse 1
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My name is Sway
And right now
I'm about to take you
To the very beginning
Prior to the present
Before the magazines
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And before the mix tape
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on my mind
I needed a way to get all of this
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crap out of my head
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This is my dream
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Listen very carefully
Verse 3
it's tha arrival of Decihper
That's where I've been puttin' it
Down for my people on the
East side (Get up)
South side (Get up)
Inside (Yeah)
Outside (Yeah)
Get up, get up, get up,
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get up
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(Underground) Under
to hear me though
That's when I had to shoot
a 'lil video
Now I'm giving you the album
Verse 5
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Ever since I was a 'lil kid about six,
seven, eight, nine or ten
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I always wanted to be bigga than Big Ben
But dreams can easily come to an end
L- o- n- d- o- n
The city dat never sleeps so
'Lil kids forced to think like men and
the big smoke just gets you lean
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To get a good start in life I took
a run up instead of pickin' a gun up
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I picked up a pen, and I shoot for the sky
Run up on the clouds
That's why I got one up on you clowns
walkin' around
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Tryin' to figure out how I'm gonna
come up on the crowd
Now I'm in the middle when the gathering
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(Sway) The beginning is
still in my memory
(Sway) I was sittin' in my
school assembly
(Sway) I was thinkin',
"Will I live to seventy?"
remember me?
my enemies?
(Sway) Who will love and who
will envy me?
(Sway) Now I'm ready
for whatever is meant to be
Verse 7
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(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my
blood sweat and tears in this music
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(Sway,
sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway)
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You're listening to
(Sway, sway,
sway, sway, sway) This is my demo
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called Harrogate
Lived this average African black kid
a little time so he rapped quick
Not to say he never had any frends,
but he never had many
the inside 05- 09- 82
Flew back to the Motherland
where he grew
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Flew back to the other land
he was to (to)
English boy with African accent
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with riddles
Now he's an African boy with
Now he's 22
And your listening too
His first official LP debut
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And I got the energy (Uh)
I'm not jus' an NIG (Uh)
I've ever been (Uh)
Because I've been pursuing
this thing from school
Since commodore
Atari and Amiga
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I ain't in it to be number two
Five albums that's what I'm gonna do
Five albums then I'm done
Then I'm through
The enemies all can bite the dust
The lies the thugs with knives and guns
It's entertainment for you,
but it's life for us
my niggas
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(Sway) The beginning is still in my memory
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(Sway) I was sittin' in my
school assembly
(Sway) Never listen to what
da teachers tellin' me
(Sway) I was thinkin',
"Will I live to seventy?"
remember me?
my enemies?
(Sway) Who will love and who
will envy me?
(Sway) Now I'm ready
for whatever is meant to be
Verse 12
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(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my
blood sweat and tears in this music
(Sway, sway,
sway, sway, sway) You're listening to
(Sway, sway,
Verse 13
sway, sway, sway) This is my demo
Hallowed be Thy Name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
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Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
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Who tres pass against us
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But deliver us from evil
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And the power, and the glory
Amen
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angels on my Nokia
I'm out here, and I got no fear
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No foes or no phobias
So all those plottin'
with the obeahs
I said deres no hope for yah
Hang yourself I got rope for yah
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the devil harm any G's
And when I'm in the dark
read Psalms 23
I'm trying to do good on
the path for the beasts
A place where the bad boys
are the police
Imam and the priest
If I'm gonna be in the Church
with a cross around my neck
Or in a Mosque with a Quran and a
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palm full of beads
in my memory
(Sway) I was sittin' in my
school assembly
(Sway) Never listen to what
da teachers tellin' me
(Sway) I was thinkin',
"Will I live to seventy?"
remember me?
my enemies?
(Sway) Who will love and who
will envy me?
(Sway) Now I'm ready
for whatever is meant to be
Verse 17
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(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my
blood sweat and tears in this music
sway, sway, sway) I will not fail
sway, sway, sway) You're listening to
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway)
Interlude 1
This is my demo
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Verse 18
Charlie boy
Ah, ah who is that?
Oh, it is I your brother Koffi
What are you doing outside in the dark,
in the height of the night?
Oh Koffi, I'm planning to travel,
I'm planning to go abroad
So you are planing to escape the village,
that is a taboo
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Nonsense Koffi,
you shut up, you idiot
You just forget about taboo,
just forget about taboo
You too,
what are you doing here anyway?
I was going to do a shit,
when I smell your filthy armpits
And I follow the smell all the way to here
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Shut up, you bastard
Who is bastard, who are you,
anyway where are you going?
I'm going to Buckingham Palace,
London to eat champagne with the queen
Charlie you didn't even have I cedi to embark
on such enormous journey
Nonsense Koffi,
you forget about cedis, just forget about cedis
How are you going to get there?
Ehen, I'm going to make it myself,
jump in the river and swim
And I'm not going to stop
untill I see white people
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Eh Charlie, you are truly great
Oh Koffi, you too are also great
One day you are going to be
the U.N. secretary
Me? Thank you Charlie thank you so much,
I you are so grateful
Oh kai, don't you worry,
anyway I'm going to go now, bye bye
Outro 1
Bye bye, Charlie bring me fish and chips
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