Live Like The Other Half Do - London Posse, Rodney P

All I want to do

Is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw

All I wanna do is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw

I’m like

A newspaper

Known as a daily

Roughneck

And I’m the prime suspect

When I’m in the vicinity

Of a robbery

Radders rock up and bother me

I said, «it wasn’t me.»

They said, «well, it must have been your brother

But one nigga looks as good as any other

So you’re nicked.»

They roughed me up and cuffed me

And they stuffed me in a patrol car

So far they’ve called me every name in the book

Except 'crook'

'cause they know I never took nish

And now you’re asking me why

Yoot want fi jook police up

I remember one time

Me and my piece Janette

Were shopping up Kings Road

When two police cadets

Jumped out of the cavalry

And tried to say I done a job in Battersea

I said, 'look I’m a chatter, see

And I’m shopping with my girl, fool

But half an hour later I was marking up a cell wall

Another day of racist police brutality

And this reality is changed my personality

So thanks a lot

But I’ll stick to being a gangster what

Robs a couple banks and whatever a fool’s got ??

All I wanna do is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw

All I wanna do is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw

I’m like a hydro

When I’m jacking a brae

Could be a taxman, take a boy’s money away

Leave 'em stranded and branded a big tip

Even paro any journo why I picked him

The situation I’m placed in makes this the job

Couldn’t get a real one so I guess I had to rob

To make a living, mate

To go out on a date with my girl

Or take her to a bar

To have some money in my pocket or buy my car

Bills they a piling want to eat with respect

But I’m not in the state of mind to say 'sorry'

Look like the opinions of the city

I walk the shadows like a slasher

Don’t say nothing, not a word or I’ll smash ya

It’s like try and be aware each time I catch ya

22 or Rita or ???

I ain’t a brave so you know that I ain’t Hawkwind

With the full time

I ain’t doing a bird

For a small crime

'cause I don’t drop it like that

Get the bucket, get the bally, and jump in the back

Of the truck

Now if the bag is our gun, look up

All I wanna do is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw

All I wanna do is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw

Why do I do crime?

How else am I to get garms?

From the man that’s out of work

That’s how you get armed robbers

Terrorising up the area

Nuff man pay by doing a bank raid

In a fake beard and tash

Walk in the leader flash

45 pistol

Insists all the cash is handed over

And then I drove away

Dumped the motor in the alley

Then I dallied round Sally’s yard

Life is hard, it ain’t no bed of roses

I sting a lemon brae

Who tries to come and close this dog ??

And when you’re sleeping

I creep in your yard

And distress your house

Get out the back garden

I rip off chains

And dip off trains to make a change

But I think it’s strange

While they rip us off with the poll tax

No blacks should have to pay that

Where did they teef the crown jewels from?

The whole world’s being ruled by criminals

So show me some rich-off-crimes and I’ll sting 'em all

I’ll stick to crime

So stuff your nine-to-five

I’ll stick to crime

Cause I’ve got to survive and …

All I wanna do is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw

All I wanna do is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw

When I was fourteen

I saw this brae get jacked

And then the raddy came

And had my arm behind my back

And my face in the dirt

They said 'you're nicked'

Took me to the station

And I sure got kicked

When I was sixteen

I left my school to find a job

Worked for about a week

And then got sacked by this slob

For smacking a brae

Happy when I get my time

Lick him in the head with a petrol can

I got a boulder on my shoulder, not a chip

I needed a trade so I learned how to dip

Jacked and terrorised

Could have been an MP

But never specialised

Inequality!

For the authority

Integrating race is a priority

Safe for majority

While the minority:

Screw!

'Cause they were integrated?

Ain’t true!

Think I wear a blinker?

Or I ain’t a thinker?

True I living out the ghetto

Let me ask the question: do you do better than

I rob for a living?

But does that make you the better man?

All I wanna do is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw

All I wanna do is live like the other half do

Instead of sitting at home and screw