Ed Sheeran — The city - raps

Look its funny how the city where the Queen sleeps Still ain’t got clean streets But there ain’t a day when she ain’t got clean sheets Homeless people roam with needles and You’ve got to pay tax to afford a vehicle Tube fare doubles up every two years And the buses upstairs are a no go area Man are like ‘Pass me your mobile, here me now’ And with the crunch of the credit You can’t get a roof over your head You’re stuck in the debit But every single month they come for the debit Direct action, if you don’t play they Dive and snatch things and it don’t say that Now equipped fear ‘cause a victim of inflation The black letters turned red and they been patient And now six years rent has just been wasted I’m from a city where the rain won’t cease Pollution in the air matches that on the street The black smoke gets your head into a muddle, like Walking into elephant syringes in the puddle, like I was a country boy when I moved out Grew up too fast for my family to find out Now I try to stop my music running into nosedives Can’t resort to arrogance with white lies This city won’t erase me But I can’t help to see how this dark city changed me It’s all the same see, music is my life, but Now I try to fight whatever I need to hide from North, South, East, West, London’s my home now Knees weak, but we never slow down Now I start to do my music properly And stay from all the negative shit that will follow me Hey, look, I'm from a city full of jammed up traffic, night buses All-night clubbers, Kings Cross to all-night lovers That knew when to pay rent and stay in their apartment Talented buskers playing that guitar riff The church pastor's still praying for answers Way too much congestion, they're charging Way too much for petrol, I'm laughing But there ain't no funny side It's like winter all year, there ain't no summer time Stone Island jacket, keep warm And all phone lines are tapped, you've been warned And also mind the gap and keep calm Cause one wrong move on the train, big beard And it's gunshots, two in your brain, it's weird So as much as I'm in love with this city Just maybe I've had enough of the city