Ain't no Saint

(Verse 1)

Yeah, lean in the Fanta, smoke hangin' an' all dat

Roads was a spiral, no map, just the wall, g

Cold nights on the Section, the feds tryna caution

Seen dreams turn to ash in a single exhaust, see

You man never phoned when the bail was a tenner

When hunger was grippin' the soul of a winner

Silent wars in the mirror, a permanent winter

Just me and the grind and a half-spliff that's thinner

They see the ice on the wrist now and think it was gifted

The struggle's a movie they skipped when it was streamin'

They turned a blind eye to the graft and the grievin'

Now they hover like flies 'round the feast that I'm 'bout to eat, seen?

(Chorus)

I'm not a saint, I won't turn the other cheek, nah

When the money gets long and the future's in reach, yeah

You'll feel the distance, a cold sort of peace, yeah

Payback's a dish that I'm servin' on repeat, yeah

I'm not a saint, I won't turn the other cheek.

(Verse 2)

Same ones who doubted the vision, the drillin'

Now claimin' they knew me back when I was skint and illin'

Your memory's selective, your energy, infectious

In a bad way, like a wound that gets septic

I built my own ladder from nothin' but splinters

While you lot was chatterin', buildin' up pictures

Of a man you could use, then discard like a tissue

Now the script's gettin' flipped with a visceral issue.

(Bridge)

So when the papers hit, and the chain's really shinin'

And the shows are a go, and the stars are alignin'

Don't come with your hand out, don't speak on my grindin'

'Cause your chapter was closed when you left me there climbin'

In the silence.

(Chorus)

I'm not a saint, I won't turn the other cheek, nah

When the money gets long and the future's in reach, yeah

You'll feel the distance, a cold sort of peace, yeah

Payback's a dish that I'm servin' on repeat, yeah

I'm not a saint, I won't turn the other cheek.

(Outro)

Skrrt, skrrt in the whip, on a new road now

Views cold now, the circle is small, small

You hear the bass thump? That's the sound of the fall

For the ones who never answered their phone calls.

Yeah.

Pay in kind.

Simple.