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INTRO:
STYLAH
- Blame the system, don't blame the people!
- Can't blame the people man!
- Dun know!
CHORUS:
STYLAH
- Yo compadre, doing it the Hard Way,
- Living with your madre,
- Trying to get the rent to your yard play,
- Bailiffs'll come and take your car away,
- It's the Hard Way!
- Yo family, fend for your family,
- Stick it to the man if you can G,
- Stack what you can B,
- Rainy days it comes handy,
- It's the Hard Way, Hard Way.
VERSE 1:
STLYAH
- Living in a one-room flat,
- When your Mum's on crack,
- And your Dad's on that
- Gambling 'cos he can't handle the fact,
- That your family's trapped in the grounds of the cancer attack.
- Shit! What's your plan of attack?
- ??
- When the Man's on your back, mans on your back,
- The Man's on your back, mans on your back,
- On his way from work,
- Found him a bag,
- With jewellery worth a few grand in the back,
- Not to mention the cards and a handful of cash,
- He went police station and handed it back,
- How random was that?
- Even the Fed. was surprised,
- He said" You should have kept it alive"
- "You look like you haven't slept in a while"
- "And could do with a few more points in your life"
- Poor man said, "I might be a gambler,
- But I'm no thief and I don't beg either"
- Just then a rich girl walked in and said:
- "Have you found a bag and of course it's designer?"
- Fed gave her the bag back like there,
- And said, "You might wanna thank that guy there"
- She turns around, looks up him and down,
- Gives him a fucked-up frown,
- No reward, no remorse,
- But see the poor guy he already knew,
- Then she says, "My name's Lady Luck"
- "And Lady Luck's never gonna smile on you"
CHORUS
STYLAH
- Yo compadre, doing it the Hard Way,
- Living with your madre,
- Trying to get the rent to your yard play,
- Bailiffs'll come and take your car away,
- It's the Hard Way!
- Yo family, fend for your family,
- Stick it to the man if you can G,
- Stack what you can B,
- Rainy days it comes handy,
- It's the Hard Way, Hard Way.
STYLAH
- What's the point of the government?
- What's the point of the government?
- What's the point of the government?
- They gotta make sure that the working man can pay bills.
- Recession, inflation,
- This is a so-called "Free World" nation.
- What's the point of a government that don't work?
- 9 to 5 on the grind, and they go work,
- What's the point of a government that don't work?
- Come home in your jeans and your old shirt,
- DAVE COURTNEY: "You better be fucking listening an' all
- Looking in your wife's eyes and they're so hurt,
- Whatever happened to the life that you owe her?
- You wanna wine them and dine them with chauffeurs,
- But you're skivin' a five from her old purse,
- Gotta decide what items to go first.
- The jewellery, the TV,
- The poor man's way too humble,
- The rich man's way too greedy,
- That's how the rich stay rich
- And the poor man come like Ray Charles following Stevie
- What's the point of a government that don't work?
- When you're living the breadline with no purse,
- Got me feeling to get mine,
- I'm ??
- Now I'm binning up a line with the ? dirt,
- And ??
- And you know it's us,
- And you know we're thugs,
- From we're showing up,
- From we're showing up,
- Lines blowing up, money ain't immature, papers growing up.
CHORUS
VERSE 3: STYLAH- Yo compadre, doing it the Hard Way,
- Living with your madre,
- Trying to get the rent to your yard play,
- Bailiffs'll come and take your car away,
- It's the Hard Way!
- Yo family, fend for your family,
- Stick it to the man if you can G,
- Stack what you can B,
- Rainy days it comes handy,
- It's the Hard Way, Hard Way.
- Yo compadre, doing it the Hard Way,
- Living with your madre,
- Trying to get the rent to your yard play,
- Bailiffs'll come and take your car away,
- It's the Hard Way!
- Yo family, fend for your family,
- Stick it to the man if you can G,
- Stack what you can B,
- Rainy days it comes handy,
- It's the Hard Way, Hard Way.
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