Ode To My People

I've got my phone on shuffle
Every song's hitting my situation
I'm walking through my old ends
Headphones on to the station
I stop off house of Mystree
Pick up my medication
Pass the garden gate
Train is late so I'm waiting
Can't do Constantine
Mackeson, my heart is racing
42, 18
My memories ain't wasting
Lump in my throat
With this city air I'm tasting
Brondesbury, good to me
Two stops, got there hasty

Camden Road you got the most
Some days you couldn't face me
I got these folders full of thoughts
Letters in my memories
In class A so often
Sober felt like Class B
The love from the E and
The giggles from the weed
And the patterns made
From the LSD we was taking
And the patterns made
Our bad behaviour was creating
Fuck the trauma of that night
Tears shed in Burger King
I lost a lot that day
My marbles and my wedding rings

Ten bags, custard slices
Rizla and chicken wings
Unbrushed teeth and
Bruises on my shins
Every Sunday morning
I saw the sun as it was breaking
Sinead was running for her money
Piggy bank needed scraping
Nambucca, Pinner, let's go
The liquor cabinet's shaking
Lido BBQ
Poundland sausages I'm craving
I would've died for all of you
You lot, 5-star ratings
I got your back, you got mine
I rate you, you rate me

So many good times
They are in fact what made me
Hackney side, east now
The gozleme was tasty
Every Monday late to maths
The opposite of "race me"
The summer drugs had worn us out
September thin and pasty
Love turned conditional and
Happy turned to nasty
I sit and contemplate
Then, fuck, these years have flown right past me

I remember like yesterday, that rave
When it all was starting
The vomit on the bus, the neighbour knocking
And the dancing
The drum and bass, the heartache
The stealing and the fasting
And after all that trouble
We never a learnt one thing

Oh, the outrage when you kissed him
And our arguing
How I moved out of London
And you kept on partying
I felt so far away
Like nobody would let me in
But really it was me
Just in my hatred, festering
We meet up now, smoke spliffs
There's laughing and there's joking
We hit the ground hard
After our year of floating

Not too many recent times
Up for gloating
The town boomed, 5 days
Drenched in love, I'm soaking
Not met up much since though
Ain't that thought provoking?
This new year, I've packed in
The drinking and the smoking
I'm clear headed, but it's took
Away my rose tint
You've carried on going round and round
Old habits like you're roasting
But I can see you're worn out
Your exhaustion, it's showing
Your eyes are empty, man
The red it's glowing

But I still laugh, thinking of
That year, all of us growing
Up in each other's arms
And how we never had the knowing
To cherish them times
Special moments we were blowing
I walk round the Heath, remember
Us there when it was snowing
I remember the heat wave
And all our moaning
Happy in our anger
Funny balance but it was golden
And come smile or tear
Sunshine back drop and we're posing
And so many trips to Dam planned
Like we were ever really going

My reminiscing, it bursts my
Heart right open
My love for all the little pieces
But the puzzles broken
And so it should be
Or else we would just be holding
Onto the past
Instead of rolling
Rolling into the future, as
This book is far from closing
I hope you lot find happiness
Success, that's all I'm hoping
This is an Ode To My People
My friends, I'm unloading
These memories I just couldn't hold in