I know I got religion
I belong to the noisy crew
You see, we shout when we get happy
That's the way we Christian do
Oh, have you been tried-
Have you been tried in that fire?
I heard bullets sing higher than Mariah in choir
Spent a lot of time trapping now I'm tryna retire
But this shit runs in my blood and I'm the guy they require
Yeah, these guns don't bring nothing but prison and death
Still all my **** just admire the fire
Bro squeeze and he missed, but we admire a trier
Finesse kid, you could never lie to a liar
But Fred got the fire, I fire for days
I got to write them in my notes, they'll be igniting the page
Grinding on cold nights, putting light to the flame
Now there's no flame that can melt the ice on my chain, yeah
I really put that ice in rice for the 'caine
Me and Santan, you won't see nothin' like this again
That's my young boys again on the glide with the flame
I just really hope your block came with fire escapes
Before my entrance, I took the fire exit
Tried and tested, about twenty times arrested
Two times guilty, no comment, I guess they guessed it
Couple times bail, no forensics
This a Deezy pendant, I don't need a necklace
We stay protected and connected, it's the energies I'm blessed with
And now they're watching like Netflix
Had me doing next shit trying to get rich, but what's rich?
Took more losses than Boris, I sold more boxes than the Post Office
21 in jail, it turned me so solid
Why you think my vision's sick? I changed the game with my brain and some robotics
If you fell in my fire you'd probably roast on it
Heat up the stove and put hope on it
Cah they don't care about our lives, I put my soul on it
I'm done tryna be somebody to some nobodies
I'm being so honest and they don't know porridge
Fire burning while I'm watching higher learning
Guns bussing, tyres turning, that's a Russian and a German
That's your phone ringing, you can hear the beep
You won't be saved by the bell when you hear the screech
In it so deep, open, ocean, there's man escaping some shells they can barely see
Me and bro raising hell, we gon' share the heat
Then put us in the same cell, we gon' share the sleep
Am I my brother's keeper? It's deeper
I'm my brother's leader, speaker
I'm the eldest, the one who had to make a name so the bells ring
So nobody would trouble my siblings in this whirlwind
My older cousin wasn't known for nothin'
Never had no one I could call but I was holding suh'tin
I'm digging deep with this tool like I'm known for plumbing
Suh'tin in your chest like it's Robitussin
Word to arsonists, I burn all this
I stood in front of all three dragons and heard 'Dracarys'
And now we're jumping out G-Wagons and murking parties
Man are coming out with these bangers and dirty dancing
Nobody puts baby in a corner
I uplift my girl like I'm Swayze in the water
And if it's already written maybe I'm the author
So accustomed to the fire I get shivers when I'm naked in the sauna
How many times have they mistaken me for Scorcher?
I'm looking in the mirror saying, "Justin, just cool nuh"
Send Ghetto downstairs and tell 'em, "Just bring me water"
And tell Ghetts I put something in the formula
I'm focussed, I don't need to burn the Kush
This is Moses speaking to the burning bush
I stood in front of the fire and learned to cook
Finished my verse and never heard a hook
Riskiest numbers, this jungle, stick for your youngers
He's hungry, picked off the fungus
Kept humble, slipped him a hundred
Yeah, lived in the dungeon
Those AirMax, which **** stung them?
Can't walk in my shoes
You could be risking a bunion
The government's twisted, I cover this shift to cover this Christmas
Forget them old friends, I'm done with those bitches
They colour coded my brothers and sisters
Run the rhythm, you're a brother but you're running with them
Try accusing me of colourism
Blinded 'cause you look at me with tunnel vision
I was falling but I've gone and risen
Is this **** trusty or Sideshow Bob when he's creeping on Krusty?
Streets keep me tussling, people disgust me
Racist disease, that shit that disgusts me
Don't touch me, on the streets with the sweeper
'Cause the streets prove dusty
And I've always got love for genuine
People that buss me
Santan, and the gang advisor
I'ma check him out
I'm a analyser
She was calling me an antagoniser
Let me santise, where's the sanitiser? (Jheeze)
Just flutter by, he said, "Giggs, can you handle this?"
He said, "Float like a butterfly"
I bring truth but they love a lie
Plans, I'm the man you should run them by
Yeah
In the fire been tried
Affected the way I've been wired inside
You can hide or glide, I could've been deported
That's the definition of a fight or flight
You can type all you like, I know about homeless
Immigration, they took me from my Mum's arms
Fuck a gun charge, two swords, I'm a Ronin
Błaszczykowski, I'm tryna score with the Polish
Pain in my eyes, plans of me staying in the guide
With a vision of this changing my life
Crime's on the rise, hate's on the rise
Feel like everything but my mum's pay's on the rise
Did you come through? That's the question
Affording a burner was never man's problem
Adoption, we couldn't find homes for the weapons
By the station we've got poles, no election
In the fire been tested, before I had money, it was time I invested
Nuttin' changed, still time I invest in, watch game delicate
Tutankhamun, there's money in skeletons
All I've got to do is point, they're gonna sever his head
And tell **** that we're better as friends
Nights that I can't remember with some people I could never forget
Casa Cruz, you could bet a Nusr-et
Don't make me call a young gunner on the back of a ped, slapping a lead
Civilians grabbing your friends
There's chaos on the main road, they called choppers and tents
All because of some shit that you said
I've got killers with me and they love me
They make a man's heart stop
The shit you find horrifying gets laughed off
I'm like Meekz, bro, I won't stop, can't stop
Yeah, it's kind of different when the fire's what you start from
Have you been tried in the fire? (Hot!)
Have you been tried in the fire? (Yes)
Have you been tried in the fire? Oh (Yes)
Tell me (Did you come through?)
Did you come through? (Did you come?)
Have you been
Do your research to travel
Go and see the, go really see the corners of the world
That are alien to you, really do interest you
Erm, you know, 'cause in due process, then you'll meet new people
And then those people will tell you new stories
Then you become a voice for the voiceless
I mean, you should ask Daniel, really and truly, where he goes to find himself
'Cause I don't know anything, I'm just speculatin'
Um, more importantly for you and your family
You then get to ask the questions and answer the questions
About where you were made
Like where you come from
Where you're going
London, Lagos, LA
The journey is the film