I've always knew that
I'd not be the one that
Be left alone to weep
'Cause this day I find
My friend is inside
My own mind and
Soul to keep
This spirit is letting go
And letting the people know
That this ain't the time
This ain't the place to test me
This ain't the face to
Judge nor stress me
This is the place
This is the time
My enterprise and
This my rhyme
see'mon, 'cause
I walk, walk, walk
What I talk
Walk, walk, walk
What I talk

Deep down and dirty, yeah
Deep down and dirty
Sweat, deep down and dirty
(Deep, deep, deep down)
Deep down and dirty
Deep down and dirty

Reaction in all this
Synchronise

Seeming like
You don't know
Who you was before
You came on board
This crazy ship
You left your clip
You found your skip
You made a move
You made the move to blew it
You never found your crew
And now you're lost
Upon a sea of dangerous sharks
And shoals of fish
You make your own wish
And your bed so lie in it
You made your own wish
Come true
By the thoughts you thought
The things you did
The things you said to me
And all the others
The ones before
The ones who came
The ones that left
But now you're feeling
Sorry, sad and left alone
You best believe
The microphone alone
I'm here to stay
Make you pay and understand
That there ain't
No other day but today
Now I'm livin' it up
Now I'm livin' it up
There ain't nothing bringing me
Down so don't even try
I'll size you up
I'll size you down
Besides you round
This crazy uptight town
This burning with love and hate
The things you can't understand
There's too small a grate
I can't wait for
This time to come
I can't wait for
This time to come
I can't wait for
This time to come
Living it true the life, now
Living it true the life, yeah
Living it true the life, now
I must be true to life
I must be true to life

Deep down and dirty
I've slaved enough I have
Deep down and dirty

But I'm not grovellin'
On that hot coal
Deep down and dirty
Slavin' to this rhythm, here
Yeah deep down and dirty
Ain't nothing going on
But this sound, man

No-one lives and no-one dies
No-one lives and no-one dies
see'mon see'mon see'mon now
No-one lives and no-one dies
see'mon, tell them
Deep down and dirty
Uh, uh
Deep down and dirty
see'mon
Deep down and dirty

(Deep, deep, deep down
Deep, deep, deep down
Deep, deep, deep down
Deep, deep, deep down
Deep, deep, deep down)


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