Rookie from Stay Afloat by JND

(1)
What you watching him for, why you watchin her /
Everybody's incomparable walking on the Earth /
They've got something that you're longing for /
And the difference is you want it more /
But opportunity in't knocking for the have nots /

They tell you all it takes is hard work /
And that's cause /
You're born in different circumstances /
To that lot /
Where doors are opened if you've got the key to't padlock /
And know the code word for the bouncer playin' back stop /

There to keep our kind of people out o't'clan what /
Seem to be in charge of everything and I've lost /
Hope again, 'cause we weren't born to the right folks /
with the right blood in our veins /

And that's bullshit, I'm calling it out /
Graft your way out of poverty, turn it around /
So quick to condemn black market entrepreneurs /
To some the only opportunity presented, I s'pose /

(chorus)
One rule for them /
And one rule for us /
And you can try and play it their way /
But you'll never run at their pace /
It's not a game they made for us /

Can't trust a thing /
From t'news room to Kings /
Tryna figure what t'agenda is /
The politics behind the messages /
What's the chances that they think we're thick? /

(2)
Now I'm not saying that I've had it rough /
Because I haven't, look /
But I can see it in my city where they've had to cut /
Or so they say and cover bases 'til they've passed the book /
Stretched the services who do their best to handle us /

People beggin' more, holding up a card and cup /
Sat in heavy traffic islands, breathin' all the carbon up /
We're nearing winter now; here's the moral obligation /
It's dark at 4, close your curtains on the situation /

Slowly brainwash and integrate with telly shows /
Another plasticised yet highly polished episode /
And here's what you coulda won /
I'd rather have a brick wall and bang my head against it, just for fun /

And draw a piece with my brain splatter, symbolism /
How it feels to see it, too preoccupied with living /
While their asset strippin', you can watch the problems grow /
Then you wonder why I've lost my hope /

(chorus)
One rule for them /
And one rule for us /
And you can try and play it their way /
But you'll never run at their pace /
It's not a game they made for us /

Can't trust a thing /
From t'news room to Kings /
Tryna figure what t'agenda is /
The politics behind the messages /
What's the chances that they think we're thick? /

• Hip-Hop/Rap
• UK Hip Hop
• West Yorkshire
• alternative
• hip hop
• ukhh
• Bradford