One Mile Away Page #12

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Now that I know

It ain't never too late to grow, grow

It's never too late to grow

It's never too late to grow

Cos I don't wanna feel

the same no more...

It's a question, innit?

Yeah, mate. Is it too late?

Do you get me?

Question yourself

and then you realise, innit?

I wanted to put the message out there

that it's not too late, innit?

Ain't never too late, innit?

There's people

that do shitty things all their life

and then, boom, they're inspired

and their whole life changes, innit?

I had a dream last night

that I was back in prison, bun that

I'd rather die so today I'm chillin'

They're tryin' to watch us

like clockwork, mechanism

Give 'em the fingers up

to show the fools that I can see them

I see straight

through the plain clothes

I ain't wanted

so I got no reason to lay low

I just wanna live my life good

and raise dough

But they don't wanna see that

so they're stoppin' my stage show

The roads are brake, bro

So I'm tryin' to stick to my career

And I did this for Danio and Keya

Daddy's here, yo

This is one

to let the whole world know

It ain't never too late to grow

N*ggers are never shown, man,

the right sh*t.

For my generation growing up, yeah,

everybody wanted a name.

If you didn't have a name, yeah,

that means you're idiot, innit?

That's it, innit?

You're somebody or you're nobody.

You get me?

Whereas now, I can stand up

and prevent things. You get me?

I can say, "Yo, listen, allow that.

Allow that cos that's gas. "

I talk to the youth all the time.

Allow the gang thing,

but it's dumb. Don't make no sense.

You're not gonna get nowhere from it.

My little cousin is dead

and he paid

the maximum penalty, innit?

I kind of blame myself

sometimes, as well.

Cos he's following me, innit?

He's following me.

I'm the oldest cousin. I'm the oldest

out of the lot of us, basically.

So, obviously, it's like,

when I do certain things,

then the rest follow, innit?

It's never too late to grow

It's never too late to grow

Cos I don't wanna feel the same...

I sit down in, like, the studio.

I'm sitting down in the studio

with the so-called "bwoy dem".

Was that the first time

you'd ever been in a room

with Burgers and Johnson?

Yeah, the first time in my life

and I was a bit uneasy.

I have to sit down and think,

"Is everything really cool here?"

And then they will come over

and everything was kind of relaxed.

It was an experience.

You just realise,

"Hold on. He's just like me, innit?"

They talk the same.

They think the same.

He's not my enemy.

These guys ain't my enemy.

But that was another wake-up call.

Like, come on.

This is so trivial.

It's so foolish, so unbelievable.

This is how it's supposed to be

and that's the dream now, innit,

to make it always like that.

That's how they're supposed

to live. Together.

And I don't wanna feel the pain

It's never too late to grow

It's never too late to grow

Cos I don't wanna

feel the same no more

And I don't wanna feel the pain

- My dawg.

- That's what I was about to say.

My brother from another mother.

We're like that, innit?

So, that's just all it is.

So say no more, innit?

A real brother, innit?

Shabba. It's just Shabba, innit?

He's just taking me

as it comes, innit?

There's nothing more to it.

It's just Shabba.

I can't complain and that.

It's not exactly the truce

that we wanted, you know,

to kind of make history, have some

form of truce, bring people together.

But it's still a way

of bringing people together.

We've got mandem on the soundtrack,

we've got mandem in the same studio,

we've got people talking,

so it is progress.

We've come a long way.

We can look and say,

"I'm living good. "

For once, I'm living good.

I've got to analyse a lot of stuff

I've been through, I've grown up in

and analyse the whole situation.

I've come to realise it isn't...

Everybody's always

blaming each other.

You have to blame yourself, man.

This is your life.

So you have to live it

and I have to be all I can be.

You understand it?

And that's what I've learnt.

I've watched a lot of people

spend a lot of time saying,

"It's this person.

We're blaming that person. "

When I wake up in the morning,

I do what I wanna do, innit?

So when I wake up in the morning,

whatever I do,

that's the life I'm gonna be living.

So it's my decision, my choice.

So, me, I'm gonna try

and do the right thing.

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