London Posse - Live Like the Other Half Do lyrics

[Chorus] 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 [Verse 1: Bionic] 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 n***a 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 p 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 A ??? 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 ?? [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2: Rodney P] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Verse 3: Bionic] 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 j**els 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 ... [Chorus] 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 [Verse 4: Rodney P] 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 Question: do you do better than I rob for a living? But the dapper do a better man ?? [Chorus] 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