Brixton - Jelani Blackman

Born in a place that don’t know me, Brixton, Brixton

One-half of the roots of my family tree, Brixton, Brixton

When I reach you, it’s like you’re in my bones, Brixton, Brixton

How could you lose something that you never known?

Brixton, Brixton

Born in a place that don’t know me, Brixton, Brixton

One-half of the roots of my family tree, Brixton, Brixton

When I reach you, it’s like you’re in my bones, Brixton, Brixton

How could you lose something that you never known?

Brixton, Brixton

Uh, nah, I don’t really know my name, black man, see-saw and sugar cane

Got cut away but I sleep on the pain, Ali ego, but life’s like Sugar Ray

Long time been a man of the place, nah man, I ain’t been a man of the faith

bass, that’s always but I left suttin' in me in Tulse Hill estate

So I say

I was born in a place that don’t know me, Brixton, Brixton

One-half of the roots of my family tree, Brixton, Brixton

When I reach you, it’s like you’re in my bones, Brixton, Brixton

How could you lose something that you never known?

Brixton, Brixton

It’s another life

How can we be so close and so far at the same time?

Nah, it weren’t easy, I felt them scars like, «Rah, how could I be taken apart

so early?»

One-half split from my half like dark and light, still carve them a heart,

my path settle down now

Bro, no hopes, come a long, come a long, long way, but a wrong’s still a wrong

Now I see more clear like my view’s Evian, Blackman Santana sippin' from

But Blackman still rage from very young in a cage in the war

And sure, never won, never will be, we’ll see if they’re ever done,

still swing for the world with the Falcon Punch

Yes son, my roots run deep, that’s mum still, when I come back, brick,

it’s a sticky one

Feel suttin' mad in my chest that’s strong, started in a place that I don’t

come from

I was born in a place that don’t know me, Brixton, Brixton

One-half of the roots of my family tree, Brixton, Brixton

When I reach you, it’s like you’re in my bones, Brixton, Brixton

How could you lose something that you never known?

Brixton, Brixton

Born in a place that don’t know me, Brixton, Brixton

One-half of the roots of my family tree, Brixton, Brixton

When I reach you, it’s like you’re in my bones, Brixton, Brixton

How could you lose something that you never known?

Brixton, Brixton