Listen to the Old Man

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Ali Bla Bla] Dear Father, now I'm a man Twenty one with about twenty one plans So plenty of grands Back in the day I done many dumb scams When I was a kid you said I wasn't shit 'Cause I went and hung around about twenty one mans You wasn't a fan Flopped in school 'cause I thought I was cool By adding a Q to twenty one grams But there's something you don't understand You were raised in a different land But I grew up in London Town Where there's thugs and hounds and gunmen round With goons that hustle with tools as muscle And sirens are the abundant sound I was mixing with drugs and clowns Heard the devil calling but it some how drowned and When I look back it was like a montage With a backing track made by The Beatles I was looking like a slave to the evil Coulda been dead or in jail in the sequel With a desperado mentality That invest in hard doe reality But that life of snakes and ladders Would carry this wise guy straight to insanity Imagine me, sittin' in my flat on my ones Smoke on tap for my lungs I wouldn't even chat to my Mum Trapped and alone All for the lust of the funds With no trust for your Son Thinking where has he gone? And what has he done? But I never meant to do wrong So I gotta move on while I sing this song [Chorus] With times gone by in his hands Listen to the old man Listen to the old man, the old man If you can't find no advice where you stand Listen to the old man Listen to the old man, the old man [Verse 2: Ali Bla Bla] And they say Things aren't what they seem You split from Mum when I was fourteen Left the country like you had moved team Never saw the times I wiped my tears clean And as a teen, I hardly smiled Never wondering why your Son had been wild Expecting that you made a blunder with child But you can't sweep lost years under the pile And even though I still had a good home With family affairs and no man ever there I'd go on the roads and would roam With the olders who talked in a hood tone, ha Those years just flew right past me Like life's just one big party You tell me to act calmly Thinkin' how can I listen when I can't see? When I look back it was all the anger With a feeling that wasn't mutual Another bloodshot vein in the pupil To people around me it took on a few tolls And at what cost, thinking I'm a big boss? As if Ali Bla Bla was Rick Ross Tried floss for the girls with the lip gloss But the truth is, really I would live lost But now times are changing Had to take your advice 'cause my life needs saving When I look back, yes I was the worst behaving And really there was only myself in blaming But last year Granddad died And I saw that look of regret in your eye From relationship ties And it made me start questioning mine [Chorus] With times gone by in his hands Listen to the old man Listen to the old man, the old man If you can't find no advice where you stand Listen to the old man Listen to the old man, the old man [Verse 3: Danny Wilder] If only we had known That long before we had grown Into similar images Few physical differences From pictures we've been shown Of our own flesh and bone At the same age we had been Veering alone Way off the tracks Attracted to the other side I'd run and hide in stupidity Literally, fiction free, it was a reality Gradually though I had actually grown to realize The debt I was in I was in no place to waste What I'd been given And maybe we've been raised To make a difference Finally I see That it pays to make a living Finally I agree That what you say has paved a vision And maybe The next generation Of babys will get born Into safety And break these barriers down That we've been carrying 'round And break free from the massive amounts [Chorus] With times gone by in his hands Listen to the old man Listen to the old man, the old man If you can't find no advice where you stand Listen to the old man Listen to the old man, the old man