Summertime
Abstract Benna
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It's not a crime unless you get caught I thought I got one shot Lifted the lid slowly to steal meat from the Dutch pot Heard foot steps and made a choice to run Outside past the elders playing dominos Making yardie noise with rum Being poured like it's the fountain of youth A halo of gunja smoke Puff puff passing round in a loop Your mum is my mum they're all home from both jobs To indulge in the fruits of their labour Slush puppy straws between the lips of girls With mating seasons usual behaviour in the air Belly tops Batty riders Flip flops When its this hot Sun melts the cold shoulders Now every glance is entertained from youts In three quarter lengths bench pressing to impress Those play-hard-to-gets Happiness is solar powered We all wanna enjoy the sun We run around shooting each other But survive coz water pistols fill a void for guns We've been loyal to the soil since stuck in the mud Outsiders pass through on edge like curbie But round here its nothing but love Rounders and kids from the diaspora tryna Enquire if we want to play British bulldog That's the only time we identify with the empire There's nothing like the entire neighbourhood being Resourceful in where we happen to live Up until all hours of the night Playing run outs until the stamina did We'd knock down ginger at friends' houses Who weren't allowed out and worse Temper tantrums were loud it hurts Watching us have fun from the window Running around but perks Of being grounded kept them down to earth It was all laughter and hype when we were reunited Five of us on bikes three guys Being chauffeured on handle bars We'd ride towards the sounds of hopscotch and excitement That lingered in the air the only sat nav we needed Popping wheelies towards girls Seated in hairdressers converted From doorsteps, waiting for them to finish their plaits So we could insist in a game of cat's cradle Hoping it lead to something with no strings attached A few years from now some of us will be dead In prison with an addiction Just existing or even moved out the ends These casual moments will be memories We'll cherish every ounce of them Theres a reason those last 4 letters are found in friends And why most inner city youths are bound to them Its not about where you're from its who you're with How much trouble we can cause as stupid kids Amongst the family God let us choose We say fam Blood Bruv Cuz This bond is beyond DNA You see the way we met Sheer luck of counsel house paperwork If there's 4 wings amongst five of us Somehow we'll make it work We learned to walk in each-others shoes So we share a change of shirt Problems and more You knocked on my door Your mum washed her hands of you Face still drenched I felt helpless but you made your bed Still I gave you the quilt from mine We can get turned up everyday But its dark times which reveal the kind Of love at the heart of friendship When it kicks off we defend our side an stand divided We come together with ball over there you'll find Man United Under the 'no ball games' sign between the coats If you paid attention you would've seen the growth We trained the talent who help keep the premiership afloat We're not footballers We're magicians Hat trick after hat trick What's a piece of round leather It takes balls to survive here testicles or not Unless you have stripes you won't get to call the shots I aspired to be a striker when my friend was shooting He chose the wrong Arsenal it was his mistake We both ended up in a box for chasing goals But he had the worst twist of fate
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