Crack Baby Lyrics - Devlin

When I was young, I knew this kid 

And his life was always madness 

His mum was on them crack rocks 

When he was young, his Dad left 

Kids would call him 'have-not' 

And worse, I bet you can guess 

Scummy, tramp, jack-pot 

His mum's still at the crack spot 

He's hungry and he's hacked off 

There's blood all down his tracktop 

Them bullies caught him slipping 

He curls up when they're kicking 

Punching, biting, spitting 

Now there's phones out with the cams on 

He dies some more inside 

Then he cries when he gets stamped on 

It's damn wrong 

Any part of him that was man's gone 

They finally knocked him out, he saw a light and thought he'd found God 

Only then to wake, right back inside this town, lost 

Cold but he don't care much, his only friend was Jack Frost 

His skinny little frame aches 

There's cuts upon his grazed face 

Trying to find a safe way home, that may be long 

He looks above and screams "Why'd you bring this hell on me?" 

At night I try and sleep but can't, I hear this song 

I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop 

There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard 

Well every day the problem seems to multiply 

And everybody's keeping busy getting by 

Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry 

It's just my city's lullaby 

Years pass and he was chilling 

On this park bench spitting 

Freestyling to himself 

About his life, that it was hell 

When this crazy local villain 

Sat down and told him "Listen 

I've seen how hard your life has been, I think it's time I helped" 

If you like, you'll work for me, the boys will welcome you as well 

If you've got beef then we've got beef, we'll ride on them with shells 

You never deserved the cards you got 

Here's your chance to passed them off 

Take a gamble, cast the rod 

It's time you showed this world 

Says "Yeah man, fuck it 

I might as well be thugging 

This life has gave me nothing" 

Can feel inside himself, the accumulated hatred 

Was soon replacing basic 

Human moods a face with 

A past and you can tell 

But it's all about his future now 

Olders got him moving round 

Running guns, moving grams 

Flick-knife on his belt 

He's dying to use his blade though 

For years you made him scapegoat 

Now take note, you try him now, you're getting straight poked (Oh well) 

I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop 

There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard 

Well every day the problem seems to multiply 

And everybody's keeping busy getting by 

Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry 

It's just my city's lullaby 

He's the man now, stand down 

He's shotting up this mad town 

Taxing other shotters with yoggers and his mad pals 

I called him Sonic, wherever he went there was always tales 

Of clarat and vomit, I think he's trying to even the scale 

He feels euphoric, a hoodrat that was beaten down ironically giving the beatings now 

It's all evened out, a child that was screaming out 

Is a man with an evil scowl 

Oh shit! What's this? 

Someone that he's seen in town 

Used to punch him around (ho) 

Now he's reaching around (yo) 

And his heater is out so 

Now he's blasting rounds 

And his target's down 

Like Warren in Barking town 

And he's laughing proud 

His heart is drowned 

Nobody can save him now 

He's a monster made by man, Mary Shelly ain't around 

So this ain't no act of fiction 

When I find these words and fix 'em 

To the page to make you see where this child went off the rails (I'm done now) 

I ain't seen no man falling like a raindrop 

There's no life to live here, this town is a graveyard 

Well every day the problem seems to multiply 

And everybody's keeping busy getting by 

Well if you listen closely you can hear them cry 

It's just my city's lullaby