Rise And Fall - LowKey

Back in the days, I had dreams of rapping on stage

Imagined listening to radio where my track would get played

It’s tragic, I never fathomed that the magic will fade

Let’s take it back to the days when I established my name

I was over-hungry for beats, like the melody was something to eat

(Bars) a hundred a week was nothing to me

As long as I had something deep to crush a sucker MC

I won battles but in a couple I fumbled, suffered defeats

I was grinding hard, way harder than other artists did

At 17, on Choice FM, I went bar for bar with swiss lyrics for 45 minutes

Ready and prepared

No lie, you can ask anybody that was there

Simple and plain, my CD got critical acclaim

I began to build an official position in the game

Quicker than I could think, I was fulfilling all my aims

I miss them days, now it’s difficult 'cause shit isn’t the same

Everything that goes up must come down

I was alright before, but I’m fucked up now

Got a bit of success, didn’t like it at all

It’s time that I document my rise and my fall

If it’s not your destiny then it’s not meant to be

In the mirror, face to face with my worst enemy

Got a bit of success, didn’t like it at all

It’s time that I document my rise and my fall

Before volume 2 dropped, my brother died

I never stopped, I just carried on busting rhymes

Putting on a brave face but it was still tough at night

I couldn’t sleep 'cause my nightmares were nothing nice

Volume 2 came out, got live in the press

Regardless, I was still stressed and fucking depressed

More successful, the more I felt stuck in a web

Pain ate away at my soul 'till nothing was left

There were rumors about, I heard a dirty sound

They even tried to say that Chancers turned me down

Everyday, they were on the phone, tryna get me on that show

'Till I had to tell 'em straight, look, I didn’t wanna go

I didn’t wanna blow

Had nothing to prove bruva

In '05 I won an award for best new comer

But that shits all irrelevant

They say the only thing worse than not getting what you wish for

Is getting it

Everything that goes up must come down

I was alright before, but I’m fucked up now

Got a bit of success, didn’t like it at all

It’s time that I document my rise and my fall

If it’s not your destiny then it’s not meant to be

In the mirror, face to face with my worst enemy

Got a bit of success, didn’t like it at all

It’s time that I document my rise and my fall

I just can’t handle the chins wagging

And the lips chatting

My issues had me making decision to quit rapping

It’s funny (why?)

'Cause that almost really did happen

I changed my mind everyday

Kept zig-zagging

But I’m a lyricist, I live for this

I tried to stop

Got volume 3 off my chest

Then hit Writers Block

Very pissed, I was getting sick of my topics

A pad of paper, I couldn’t fill one line of it

Seeing rappers in magazines, I know I’m better than

Cussing has-beens when really I’m just a never-been

Me and my clique would be rich if we were American

Those negative times are so clear when I remember them

I hope you heard a bar, you could maybe relate with

Life’s strange, it never remains the same, it changes

It wasn’t just memories that made me make this

'Cause we all rise and fall on a daily basis…