BANG, BANG, BANG!!! (and another youth is gone)

Another youth is gone
This should concern us all
East, west, south and north London
It doesn’t matter where you go
Everywhere you look, black on black crime.
You should know, that a real man doesn’t fight with a gun
A real man fights with his hands
Only cowards, fight the way you do
You trying to be a man, but boy you don’t have a clue!!
A heater* in your pocket, and u feel like Sonny Crocket
But your butt gonna be behind bars speeding like a rocket
Ghetto children straggling to grown up
Gaining street respect, is not easy, u must show up
By the time that you realize, you’d be locked up
You may think that will give you more prestige
But the streets will keep running, whiles you get lynch

Bang, bang, bang!!!!
And another youth is gone
And what the police have done
Decrease the age to 17, that’s all
So, more negros, will go to prison
And more criminals, we will have very soon
They’re not criminals if not our sons
Children growing up, just doing their thing
Getting into trouble, as we all have done
Hanging together, police call them gang
Such they qualified me in the past of that called MAN*
Think, how many thugs you know over 55?
And how many of them lived a happy life?
Even Scarface at the end of the movie dies
Gun crime is making our hoods martyrdom
Bang, bang, bang and street rep is won

But the question is:
Who brings guns to the neighbourhood as mobile phones?
They (youth) don’t have the means, who puts them in their hands?
Who brings heaters to the youth gangs?
Police concentrating on the last monkey, instead on the one who plans
Black on black crime, nothing worse to hear
Killing brother to brother, making run your families tears
And your peers, don’t gonna want to know anything about you
And those who you want to get respected from, don’t want know too

Always blaming the lack of black male role model
But let me tell ja what’s your problem
Lack of loving yourself and you’re youngish
That’s definitely what makes you be so foolish
We already lived the stages that you going through
And let me tell u, we all committed the same offences too
And the fact, that we experienced, means you don’t need to
Listen to your oldest, that’s the best way
We can work shoulder with shoulder, listen to what we going to say
Life is a path that you gonna have to walk
And I will be by your side if you want to talk
PDC(B)*, BSS*, PECKHAM BOYS, NPK* and all the rest
Remember that is not your fall, u just found yourself on this mess
Trust the ones who wants to help, don’t be a fool
Because carrying a heater ain’t at all cool
Bang, bang, bang!!! Bang, bang, Bang!!!
We all have heard exactly the same song
Bang, bang, bang!!
Who gonna be the next? It may easily be my son
Bang, bang, bang!!!
In just few seconds, another future is gone

*Heater – name for gun,* PDC(B)- Poverty Driven Children in Brixton,* BSS- Blood Set in Streatham,* MAN- Movimiento Anti-Nazi (Anti-Nazi Movement) Barcelona,*NPK- Northumberland Park


GOD’S SON