Still On My Own

[Verse 1]
I'm only 23 but I feel like i'm older
Developed i'm a hunchback from carrying the world on my shoulders
In a world full of molders and the land of tony Blair
It's hard to BBC my dreams and stay focused
And i've always been a loner in the form of a trio
The three amigos where me, myself and I, uno mio
And ain't nothing changed but my size
And in fact i'm on a rise, it's 2005
I'm everybody's friend now, i'm everybody's cousin
'cuz i'm the up & comer, coming up, i see em' coming
To eat with the up & comer
Sleep with the up & do songs with
And try steal heat from the up & comer
The only person I trust is my mother from day dot
Through all the ups & coming down she supported me
She said that ima keep it
Pregnant in secret
Ignoring all the encouragements to have aborted me
Family cursing me forgetting it could have been worse
Remember i chose the beats over the streets
Kept on telling me to go to university
It's all reversed now, now that i'm tipped to do well commercially
As for friends? we've moved on and grown up
I used to rap with a crew called one, We broke up
Now being solo only shows you who your true friends are
When you invite them to shows but they don't show up

[Chorus]
I don't wanna hear the cries no more
Find your dream i'm chasing mine
Give it all you got n strive for more
Life's too short to waste my time
And I look up at the sky and all I see;
Is I can only rely on me
Because at the end of the day i'm still on my own

[Verse 2]
You mighta seen me standing on the streets, trying to sell my CD's
At five pound a pop it was me, X-I-LEM P
Back to the studio to make another beat
No whip this was all done by feet
Then we called up michael merridith to get a good mix
He put it on a DAP, i put it on a DISC
Then we give it to the DJ's
Give dough to put it out
I did a little bit of that a little bit of this
Life's a bitch, in a relationship with time
Sleeping with me on the side
And in front of life is death
And i'm a young dog trying stay alive i look at life doggystyle
Ain't no stoppin me now
No lookin back to when I was trapped between religions it wasn't simple
Because I feared bending over backwards to get into heaven only to end up in limbo
And this is what i'm saying now...

[Chorus: x2]
I don't wanna hear the cries no more
Find your dream i'm chasing mine
Give it all you got n strive for more
Life's too short to waste my time
And I look up at the sky and all I see;
Is I can only rely on me
Because at the end of the day i'm still on my own

Don't need nobody... gonna do it on my own