Fire In The Booth 3

[Intro]
You know what time it is when you hear this right
Yeah, yeah, yeah
1XTRA
Large up Charlie Sloth
Large up everybody locked in, it's Mic Righteous Fire In The Booth Part 3, we back
Underdogs forever, Class A forever, Y O B forever
Degenerates
Look

[Verse 1]
Ain't easy to find yourself if you're lost and you don't know where
Your head ain't no more in the fields like it ain't no fair
You travel the landscape with your mind but inside it's like nobody care
No form of insight, it's midnight, you're in a million mile stare
Yeah, maybe you're never gonna come back
Maybe you're never gonna love rap
Maybe you'll never make a comeback
Maybe you're just starting, I understand how much power's in one man
When his life is in God's hands
And he's tired of the knockbacks
It's a fight trying to climb to the top fam
Watching everybody else rise and you wanna write but you've gone blank
Cotch back, watch and
Look at everybody's verse, as long as you come first, it don't matter who you've hurt
Bodies laying in the dirt
Everybody for themselves, if you're never gonna help, how's it ever gonna work
I'ma give them that work
For everyone that never had a turn, yeah
I'll give you my word, for everyone that never have a turn
I swear if you don't steal the control, you ain't getting a go
I don't like this game but I'm getting involved
Na, I can't be told, can't be told what to do
Can't be told what to do
Can't be far from the truth
Can't be thrown out the booth
Can't be, no, dropped one tune, got my face all over the news
Big dogs pick them off like 'oof
Mould to the glue, but they only refuse you
So I'ma choose to
Feeling as lonely as you who's
Feeling as lonely as them, whatever's holy takes hold of my head
Wash off the phony, my father is phoning again
Only to ask if I'm coping, I do not reply, I should tell him "I'm fine"
But he knows when I'm lying, consulting myself, I'm alone in this-'lone in this life-life
You know I can fly
Take hold of my pen and cover me brother, I'm going in blind
Leaving my phone on the side
Starting to like who I am now
That guy in the background
That fly on the wall, time to take it all back now
Can't control my damn mouth, they can't chill me
They wanna stop me, being the real me
Everybody want a little piece, wanna kill me for a little tweet
Oh please, what film are you living in that made you think you was a real G?
Tell me what road you're living on that made you think you were Little Reece
Cause in real life, you're a shy lad
When you're online, you're from Shyraq
Smoke a little herb and start following the herd like a sideman
Can't talk about Mic, can't talk about grime
It don't matter where you're from, anyone can be a grime fan
This one's for the mandem in Brum that are living that life and it's better with a wife fam
It's like this world's designed to keep you sidetracked
So don't fall in that flytrap
My iPhone's glued to my hand
Still I'm airing out all my fans
I don't like that
I see all around me clearly like I'm at the IMAX
I see all around me clearly, no more living like I'm blind
And trust, I still sofa surf
And no real reason, Lord knows I search
What goes on in my head? Who knows for certain
When you hold a purpose, you just know
It gets heavy when your shoulders hurt
But when you know your worth
And there is no diversion
These are words of a broken person
Who's soul is surfaced
And I won't say no one's perfect
'Cause I know you're perfect, I hope I'm learning
Say I'm working, I'm overworking
The show ain't over until they close the curtain
The show ain't over until they close it, na
I'm focused, back in my zone
Back on my own
There is no place I call home
I'm homeless, I don't feel no wholeness
This is my life and I chose it
This is my life, this is no living it twice
This is no quitting with this shit I write
This is no gimmick in sight
This is no quick fix in giving you mine
Whatever's holy, take hold of my gift
I'm taking no prisoners Sloth take over my mic
Wake in my eyes, ain't budging an inch
This should take them a night
In this forever, I made up my mind
Cover me sloth, cause im going in blind
Leaving my phone on the side
Starting to like who I am now
I shall rise from the background
You know my background
Tell them I'm back now
Eye for an eye and I want what's mine
I will not back down
I want it back
Back of my hand
I don't want a handout
I don't wanna speak, I don't wanna scream, I don't wanna fight
But I wanna leave, I believe I can make it right
This might take all night
Am I gonna burst, am I gonna breathe?
Am I gonna learn, am I gonna teach?
Am I gonna sleep on sacred time?
Yeah, this could take all night
Am I gonna speak, am I gonna scream?
Am I gonna fight, am I gonna leave?
Am I gonna be what I wanna be?
Am I gonna learn, am I gonna teach?
Am I gonna burst, am I gonna breathe?
Am I gonna sleep on time?
This sacred time, we wasting time, yeah
Keep chasing time, let's make it

(Mic Righteous! Oh my God
Oi the kid is back, the kid is back in the building, you're an animal fam, you make me so proud Mic Righteous!
Yeah, come on, what
You don't wanna stop do you?
Na cus'
Eh I'm coming in, I'm coming
Check, check, yeah)

[Verse 2 - Acapella]
Any minute your life can flip upside down, but you've gotta try and see the upside how?
When you're in a town that is run by clowns
Ain't no getting out so we just die out
Like we're getting drowned when the tide rises now
We dont fuck around we just dive right in
Wow is the only sound to describe my bits
Wow is the only sound to describe my 'oof
Ever had a real illness, it gets sick when reality hits
We wore school uniforms to funerals
Made memorials in the music hall
The community mourned, unity formed
And we still do it like we used to before
Only this time, we are newly reformed, I can't tell a lie keep it truly your's
This for Mark, Doof and Zack and St. Peters
R.I.P to Pac 'cause they need him
My heart bleeds for them
It's times like this when you need your friends
I've seen the best leave, even then
They only really leave when they leave your head
The memories that are too deep to forget
Now who's the best? Me, Bugzy, Kane or Wretch?

Oh, woah-oah-oah-oah oh, you're only one record in and you're putting it out like that
Haha yeah man
Oh, woah-oah-oah-oah
It's controversial Mic, I don't feel like too many people wanna argue but when I hear you on that mic, it feels aggressive, it feels offensive. It feels quite organic man, it's like you do that quite easily. Jesus, woah, that was a work out right there for me fam
That's how it is cus', listen I've got a surprise for everyone in store, don't worry cus'
Ooh, What you got, what you got for them?
Listen it's-it's coming, we'll save it, we'll save it, let's-we'll get into the next one, after the next one
Yeah, well you got me, whats this surprise?
Well do you know what? I was gonna say it, but i feel like saying..

[Freestyle Acapella]
I never left
There ain't no point in saying we back
Fed up of these man, Negative feedback
Say what you-Say I ain't been doing nothing all year
Where you think I been for the last 3 fam?
Got the masters back
I'm independent to the T fam
Got the album cover coming, got it on my T fam
Freestyle off the top, still better than these other man, nothings pre-planned
This what a real freestlye sounds like so relax
I hear them complaining, saying they ain't got the album title
Well alright cool, have it Sloth, it's called Dreamland
And the pre-order comes as soon as this F.I.T.B. lands
Oi, oi-oi-oi
I swear, I swear, that's it
Mic Righteous! what wait-wait-wait, so what you saying?)
History has just been made, I'm dropping the album right here on pre-order tonight
Ohhhh
As soon as you're done listening to this, I would appreciate it if you would go and purchase that
It is on pre-order, the album is called Dreamland, I'm dropping it!
What like that you come on Fire In The Booth
It's not a myth, it's not a myth
And just do it like that? Oh! That's strategic right there
It's not a myth
Oh! Are we going again?
Let's do this man, I wanna go in again, I'm hungry man
Mic!
This is for everyone that remained true
You're a killer fam
This is for everyone that remained true
Beast
Large up 1XTRA
Beast season
JDS, West Leg, Lambs, Jack, James I see you
Class A forever
Underdogs forever
Yeah Dreamland on pre-order tonight

[Verse 3]
I can hear the fire talking to me
Tell me you've been passed the torch
I hear the fire talking to me
Tell me that you are important
Hear the fire talking
Spoke of challenges that are in store
And I ask if I have the heart to bear the stuff I walk with, look
The spark is dimming, dark is dawning
Demons from my past are calling
Suicidal thoughts come crawling, back to me I can't ignore it
And there's the fire talking
Saying you came too far to forfeit
Just think of all the aching arms that played a part to build this
I can't take apart the fortress
Yet we're so quick to forget
We say our fathers forgive
He built the arc and we destroyed it
Maybe all the drama that we're facing is just karma for the carnage that we're causing
I'ma walk into the heart of the storm and ask for a chance to sort it
'Cause I can't applaud it, if you can it's cool, you're accountable for your sins
I'ma count up all of my sins and counter all this bullshit
We just cower in the corner
Until we have no calling
It's in our nature to explore shit
But emotions get exploited
There should be no poor, or rich
We should all just play our part
To help the world we’re in
So we’re free from selfishness
Where before we save ourselves, we’re saving someone else's skin
Too much greed, can't seem to shed the sense of helplessness
Like homeless people with no shelter when the hail hits
Like talking to your girl and kids from a jail that smells of piss
The reality that I rap about is as real as the cell they’re in
You got an album that’ll sell
My albums gonna sail the ship
For everyone that's like myself
They've been through hell, they held it in
The system threw the hook, you bit the bait and you fell for it
The world we’re in is unwell, it's like the Devil is welcome here
Yeah, what if the Earth just stopped turning?
The universe stopped working
And fire filled these skies
And the Earth began to burn
Would you all learn to forgive?
I feel deserted like I burnt every bridge
This life's a curse and a gift
I feel the heart of the world hurting, I just put it in to words in my head
Then let you look inside my closet on some personal shit
I've seen fire, seen violence, seen murder and sin
Disarray, missing planes, I felt turbulent winds
More claims, crooked policemen and they’re bursting at kids
More claims than Jimmy Saville fucking perving on kids
Hurling abuse at the Gogglebox when I turn on the news
Nurses refuse to be slaves, are these constant cuts not enough?
Consumers need pay, we steal, we kill, we rape, each day
Blood's being spilled in Ukraine, children being killed
And we complain when they emmigrate to the U.K
There ain't enough space for you, two kids in that suitcase
Whos to blame? neck in the noose
Newsflash, we the new slaves
We vermin, take something beautiful and burn it
Tell ourselves that we ain't perfect
Tell ourselves that we are worthless
How do we know ourselves when we do no soulsearching?
They wanna lock us in cages in case we find our soul purpose
Oh, still so far from freedom, but at least i ain't the furthest, no
There's a war between us, believe me I'ma be the first in, yo
A brutal fight between the truth and lies, I know who I am serving
I'ma serve them with these verses, who’d have thought I'd be a wordsmith
It's the 21st century, the internet's a place of worship
So I'm rapping on the radio, tryna reach my generation
They ain't singing hymns, and they ain't listening to sermons
You question my heritage? Born in Britain, blood is Persian
Due to circumstance, had to fit in with a certain clique
Grew up on the church-in the church
Can't call myself a Christian or a Muslim, I'm a person
Viewing every day worse and shi-
Who wants pain? I've seen a familiar face in Syria waiting to get strapped with that AK
Sent on, that long way, I've lost mates, can't follow religion
We're killing in God's name, using God's name in vain, for God's sake
I've got faith, I do pray
I want change, you want chains, I've been around the pain
This shit it wasn't fame, these man just act like they’re famous and you think that they’re actually famous
I tried rap for the fame too, got a pengting 'cause that's what they do
Got arrogant online, 'cause you have to be hated
Then it backfired in my face, feel like someone inside of me trying to escape
They say that the real me is hiding away from the (Power)
Spoke to my brother the other day
Yeah I've been told I'm a runaway­­
He said my entire fate relies on this time and place
So I'm up from, 9 'til 8, my eyes are tired, my eyes are wide awake
My mates are wired for days, I'm tryna change
I wanna go back, I'm finding ways, in a situation only I can change
I'm high and low, and I'm high again, I tried to solve it through fighting
I ain't resolving no violence pissed
Why is my son never smiling?
Why do I have to sell drugs to provide for him?
Why is my father crying again?
Why is he saying his life is shit?
Why is he saying his mind is like a prison?
It's like he never left prison
Answers, I've got none to give him
Fuck all your trends and your millions of views
Beause I have a vision
All I can give is my pride when I spit on this mic
Yeah it's Mic, I'ma kill it
This minute in time, I'm the shit, I'ma shine
God willing you feel it, it's Righteous, listen
For all of the people that told me I couldn't
The policemen, the teachers, the hoodrats, the hookers
You shouldn't have give me this bullet, I put it
Inside of this shotgun, instead of me shooting myself in the head
I just put it to them, pop one
All I've got is one shot son
You rappers are pop tarts
You chatting to top charts
And I channel a lost art
You man have forgot heart
And man I've just got art
Come with a passion when I'm on the mic
When I'm done, I just dash it, like that's it I'm gone, what

[Outro]
Woah
Mic Righteous!
Please, let's take a moment, I need a moment man
The first time you came through fam, you made history, you made real history
I didn't think you could top that, I was like boy, are you sure you wanna do Part 2? He's like let me in Sloth
You did Part 2, you topped Part 1
I was like-this kid's not real man, he's-he's from a different planet
Then you said let me come back, do Part 3
I'm like Mic, are you sure?
He said Sloth, let me come back and show the people what the game's been missing
What the game can't deny, what the game would love to keep out
I have to give you a round of applause, everyone in the studio, round of applause, that's a moment
That's the third moment you've created for Fire In The Booth, real moment like goosebumps, hair on the back of the neck, fam you are something special man
I am so happy you're back, welcome back Mic
I work very hard in my craft man, I ain't going nowhere this time
Welcome back, wow how the game has missed Mic Righteous
And that right there, that's a fine example of Fire In The Booth
Everyone gonna be talking again