Wheels In Motion - Speech Debelle, Roots Manuva

I walk the night street with lost souls

We converse in common codes

So unload our desires and wishes

Sparking spliffs is more than a stimulant its how assimilate

Like at the back of the class charge it’s only us

Teaches don’t like it but they don’t fight it instead they ignore it

We get no grades but don’t look fazed when the exams come

It’s like whatever act like it don’t matter only mummy’s face make you teeth

chatter

And I remember when they told me I’ll never make it

Too smart for my own good I get rude when they use there authority to abuse

I’m born to prove that rules were made for the obedience of fools

And guidance was made for the wise so I get advice for those who live full and

colorful lives

And think twice while watching what they tell I on they teli-vision yea

I see the way they pronounce the nouns

And listen to the way the vowels sound

Subliminal messages are allowed and executed by executives

Who throw pennies to beggars at London Bridge them is hypocrites

Those wheels are in motion

Those wheels keep on turning

Those wheels are in motion

Those wheels keep on turning

I walk the day streets in odd clothes with a cupboard full of new clothes that

cost loads

But if you new the real me then you would no so

Old habits are now so so sales don’t excite me like the use to

I find myself excited by sunsets but don’t see them much

I’m use to cold months and its getting chilly now

I’m born and bred in south in a cook food house

My granny use to send a plate of food for the neighbor

But now I argue with neighbors for music played loud

And their kinky behavior can be heard in my house

But build a house on a house you take the privacy out

Move the poor people in and then the rich move out

The working class keep the system moving but seem to be systematically loosing

Given no choices who can be choosing they saying use your vote

But I’ve checked out the parties and I’ve looked around

So if I vote for a choice then will my vote count

I am the silent vote so hear my voice now

Try and digest the truth but don’t choke now and with the truth I bless this

food

I got the magic touch the magic potion

And nothing powerful like words spoken

All together now the wheels in motion

All together now the wheels in motion