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Big Smoke

from Heard A Song by The Gratoners

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lyrics

Those who have and who don’t
This is what you gunna see on the road
People’ll sleep on the street every day
Benz white rims gold
Aint got no food on the plate
Benz white rims gold
Save all the pennies rattle your change
Benz white rims gold

Oooh
Where you gonna sleep tonight
On the streets or safe inside
Oooh
What you gonna eat tonight
The city corrupts my mind

This is the town that’s riddled with fears
Everyone sees you but nobody cares
Folks are freezing colder than air
Most will judge on the clothes you wear

Beware when you roam at night
There’s hungry fools with mad appetite
Armed with guns and knives

The minimal mind be stealing your life
Nothing is what the people say
They know what they see but they looking away

I’m begging a chance for folks to rise and

See them new horizons leave the routes violence
Needless youths are dying lullabies of sirens
Nobody bats and eyelid Just slumbering in silence
so peaceful and deceitful Gives you reason for your blindness

Those who have and who don’t
This is what you gunna see on the road
People’ll sleep on the street every day
Benz white rims gold ( normal, high, mid, low)
Aint got no food on the plate
Benz white rims gold
Save all the pennies rattle your change
Benz white rims gold
Where you gonna go, what you gonna do,
Where you gonna sleep, what you gonna eat?

You live all your life in a house of the same
Suddenly having to move far away
Leaving it all that you knew in a day
But get cash now you’re welcome to stay
The bigger the block the cheaper the place
The more kids you got the bigger the space
The more they can see you and study your face
At the end of the day, they know you by name
I’m begging for a chance for folks to rise and
See them new horizons no don’t leave them all behind now
From adults down to minors, just seeking fair alignment
They fallen through the cracks in the name of her highness
And now you see they slumbering, I say they peacefully silent
Never seem to want to ponder on the struggle of migrants
Wanna Deny their back bone built wealth the island
Send them back where they came with the tide

Never seen again

Those who have and who don’t
This is what you gunna see on the road
People’ll sleep on the street every day
Benz white rims gold
Aint got no food on the plate
Benz white rims gold
Save all the pennies rattle your change

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from Heard A Song, released September 2, 2021

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The Gratoners Hanoi, Vietnam

The Gratoners are a Hanoi based Reggae Fusion band, hailing from the U.K and South Africa, bringing you unique sounds of soulful reggae, blended with funk, jazz, ska, hip-hop and dancehall, guaranteed to put you in the mood

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