Blood, Sweat, And Tears Lyrics - Soundtrack To Struggle - Lowkey

Verse 1: (K-Lash-Nek-Off) 

As lightning strikes and thunder pounds 

Over the grey skies of east London town 

Prophecy K returns from the underground 

Signified by the people's cryin' trumpet sounds 

Yeah, the system, it tried to shut me down 

But I been on my ting before Onyx was flinging guns around 

Blood, sweat and tears for years 

Feels like my career's been in the dumping ground 

Yeah, this is how hunger sounds and I'm the hunter now 

Lash the lion heart, A.K.A. the man behind the iron mask 

For ten years straight, I've been raising the iron bar 

Tryna breathe the life back into this dyin' art 

So why try and par? When you'll meet the same fate as that lion Scar 

This game is fake; full of two-faced lyin' ras 

Who would sell their soul and arse just to climb the charts 

Yea, but me, I put in too much time in the graft 

Refinin' my craft for labels to sign me for a minor advance 

Picture K-Lash, mimin' on trance 

Now picture Dr. Dre beats lash rhymin' with Starks 

It's all fate and I got mine in my grasp 

They're all snakes, let 'em die in the past 

But who knows what the future holds? 

These N.W.O. soldiers will probably shoot me cold 

All because the truth was told 

You should know I did it from the heart 

Chorus: 

I'm still here, pushin' after several years 

I'm still here, standin' strong, never in fear 

I'll be still here, after the dust settles and clears 

I'll be still here, after the blood sweat and the tears 

I'm still here, pushin' after several years 

I'm still here, standin' strong, never in fear 

I'll be still here, after the dust settles and clears 

I'll be still here, after the blood sweat and the tears 

Verse 2: (Lowkey) 

I don't do this for the happy ravers or the aggy haters 

I do this for the warriors and the gladiators 

Do this for those whose lives you never cared about 

Can't pronounce their names, their origins or their whereabouts 

Those brought up around tragedy and sadness 

Who adjusted and found normality in the madness 

Fight the power 'til I'm out of breath like Malcolm X 

You empower the powerful, I empower the powerless 

They'll play you on the radio if you rap about a Gucci belt 

But rap about the government; you might as well shoot yourself 

Industry fairies say I rap about conspiracy theories 

Just to hide the fact they lyrically fear me 

Got that eye of a tiger, the heart of a lion 

The mind of a lifer, my stance is defiant 

I rise like a phoenix, immediate from the ashes 

My existence is inconvenient for the masses 

Though we are equal, I despise an imitation 

I live for my people and die for liberation 

I stand as a visionary; some have got plans of killin' me 

To literally vanish me physically like Aborigines 

Hannibal with the mask, an animal with the bars 

I'm grappling with my shackles, I channel it through my art 

Feel it in the ambience, champion, heavyweight 

My life is nothin' but my pride is somethin' that you can never take 

They think I'm elusive or think I'm a nuisance 

I swear these major labels think that I'm a stupid 

Keep your 360's you're convincing these dudes with 

Like I'll give you the blueprint for pimpin' my music 

I say that like K-Lash, he's another lion 

Every hardship from gettin' scared to my brother dyin' 

Spit all of it with or without a big audience 

Through the blood, sweat and tears, I stand victorious 

Chorus: 

I'm still here, pushin' after several years 

I'm still here, standin' strong, never in fear 

I'll be still here, after the dust settles and clears 

I'll be still here, after the blood sweat and the tears 

I'm still here, pushin' after several years 

I'm still here, standin' strong, never in fear 

I'll be still here, after the dust settles and clears 

I'll be still here, after the blood sweat and the tears