6 Million Stories - Foreign Beggars, Kate Tempest, Bangzy

Yeah, yeah

Life in the fridge

Bruv, that’s what’s going on, mate

It’s cold out here, you get me

London town, how much I rate you?

Number one spot rasta fake you

Never really know where she wants to take you

Cold-hearted bitch, I love and hate you

The city where the grind equates to knife crime

In spates they buy time, draw they blinds, and stay cool

On the street cameras that peep the madness

The pressure’s non-stop, we releasing stanzas

So many closed doors, cause we open-minded

These bright city lights got some folks a blinding

The rain doubt, what the rain clouds are lined with

High-rise flats for the rich to hide in

Safe way above our concrete plots, the real peak

Wonder what she’d have to say if our walls could speak

Things you maybe couldn’t perceive with skewed vision

Six million stories to tell but who’s listening?

(It's a London thing)

(It's a London thing)

London town, big city of dreams

London town, big city of fiends

Shoulda staged living a screenplay

Seems everybody’s feeling the squeeze

Everyone wishing that the liver was cheap

Same bucket breath blowing more than they keep

Plots on they feet, gotta scrim through the deep shit

Freaks they stabbing us, consider defeat

Everything we spent just benefits the man

How these kids shift product man, it really is a Plan B

Ask yourself, are you really the man, b?

is more often than family

People see privilege as a figure of speech

But the eat, they never had to prick for shit on the street

Never had to shift a bit to a thief for nutrition

Six million stories to tell but who’s listening?

(It's a London thing)

(It's a London thing)

Is London just property portfolios for tycoons at the rodeo?

The bullets bucking hard like he’s seconds form an overdose

The rad it isn’t overthrown, rather holds his form

Rather have the structures on his side since he was born

Big fish, little fish, fighting for a name

Mistaken at the corner for a pretty silver chain

'Til he’s dead fish served on the bread of dead fame

At buffet for the bankers, more champagne

Meanwhile, eyes glistening

Kids throwing acid in the faces of delivery men

Anything to get a little something for the bigger man

A small sink in sand

Now he’s dangling from the hook, lips ripped to bits

But he’s still spitting blood, back up at the fisherman

Eyes swivelling, saying I’m not giving in

Six million stories to tell, but he’s sick of 'em

(It's a London thing)

Man tryna get rich in the line

All the way, twenty grand, face it man

There’s a line down where they’re chasing the guys

When it comes six million

Everyman tryna get rich in the line

All the way, twenty grand, face it man

There’s a line down where they’re chasing the guys

When it comes six million