Tinchy Stryder - Working For Days lyrics

Look, we've been working our socks off there Swear down, we're working our socks off here Yeah, been working for days Swear down, we ain't feeling a minimum wage Look, we've been working our socks off there Swear down, we're working our socks off here Yeah, been working for days Swear down, we ain't feeling a minimum wage Yeah, look Yeah, it's a cold world that we're living in Look, blacks don't work for the minimum Wage, but sh** ain't changing So we gotta stay strong, F giving in And I know what my people went through Take one look, you can see that I'm vex too Look, it was all whips to the backside Big chains round wrists, no bling in 'em And they wonder why mandem are pissed off It could be a shot or a person, we're licking 'em Bagging up eighths in the yard then we're licking 'em True story Strydes I be giving 'em Black leaders I'm bigging them up 'Cos they went through all that long for the future ??? ??? ??? ??? Next time round know yourself in the future Look, we've been working our socks off there Swear down, we're working our socks off here Yeah, been working for days Swear down, we ain't feeling a minimum wage Look, we've been working our socks off there Swear down, we're working our socks off here Yeah, been working for days Swear down, we ain't feeling a minimum wage [Fuda Guy] Before the days of Martin Luther Malcolm X, black people struggled so hard To a different extent Like being shipped from the motherland Stripped, caged, raped, mis-treated And beaten all the way to another life Given new names like Sally and Dan Brothers and sisters being separated Getting sold off for less than a pound Life back then was a struggle no doubt Suicide was committed in a hurry to get out 'Cos people knew what time it was If you did try holla or shout New day now and it still ain't easy Black people are still on a greasy Grind, who knows, will it change in time? Oi Strydes, do you think it will change in time? [Tinchy Stryder] Look, we've been working our socks off there Swear down, we're working our socks off here Yeah, been working for days Swear down, we ain't feeling a minimum wage Look, we've been working our socks off there Swear down, we're working our socks off here Yeah, been working for days Swear down, we ain't feeling a minimum wage Look, I learnt my history, not from school And life ain't easy for blacks Working hard, can't even relax That's why I'm yeah I got my back to the wall That slavery sh** ain't fair man And, look, I'm on some pay me sh** Swear down, don't try play me, please I'm about my P's so there man And I ain't tryna stay at the bottom of the food chain Nah dead that talk, that was back then Me, I rep for my people, I back them Believe when I tell you I mean it Learnt my history, not from school And life ain't easy for blacks Working hard, can't even relax That's why I'm yeah I got my back to the wall Look, we've been working our socks off there Swear down, we're working our socks off here Yeah, been working for days Swear down, we ain't feeling a minimum wage Look, we've been working our socks off there Swear down, we're working our socks off here Yeah, been working for days Swear down, we ain't feeling a minimum wage