Sex, Drugs and on the Dole - The Manor

You can’t talk sense to the youts no more

Everybody’s smart every kiddy knows more

The game done switched somewhere back in '04

I was 16 could get a draw

Now everything costs but you never ask why

Pay a bill plus for a little bit of Sky

You think one day we’d have a little sunshine

Look up at the stars on a warm clear night

You’d be lucky if skies are a little less grey

Everybody lost in a cynical maze

Let’s get it back to original days

When the manor was a different place

Fixture list full of winnable games

When’d you last see kids playing in an estate

Now they’re indoors sitting on their XBox

Piffing on haze young mind riddled with hate

'Cos they don’t wanna say no

Sitting on a k train on the main road

House full of mugs wanna tell you how so

But you can’t delegate what you don’t know

Nah made in the manor got a little on the side

Never had a plan pick a winner and a ride

Take a knockback take it in the stride

But you can’t dream any bigger than your pride

Now everybody whines too much

We’ve been caught up in the cycle bruv

It’s been happening for days and months

Do you want to see a change

Snow’d in April didn’t get sun

Now everybody whines too much

We’ve been caught up in the cycle bruv

It’s been happening for days and months

Do you want to see a change

Placed five bets didn’t win one

Snowed in April didn’t get sun

Waited all summer but the sun didn’t come

Out on the run last little bit of rum

Captain Morgan big Wes

No account nothing to invest

Base rate cuts i got no interest

No jest my rents about ten weeks late

I applied for jobs for like ten months straight

Can’t get one foot in the door

Done a lotto ten years straight and I ain’t even won me a score

Graft all my life and I still die poor

What’s it all worth?

What’s it all for?

Don’t tell me go church they won’t let me through the door

Weather’s still shit and this ain’t small talk

Probably go away if I got paid more

Bit of AL Garve bit of Benidorm

I’ll be lucky if I get a day down Eastbourne

Did an SB but I’m singing in Butlins

Cigs ain’t cheap so I smoke till the butt

Had a girl but she clocked I’m punching

Now my right hand’s the only thing I’m rumping

Cos nobody thinks like me, not an MP, not an MC

Bent PC or a CBB but I’m paying every year for the same TV

Now everybody whines too much

We’ve been caught up in the cycle bruv

It’s been happening for days and months

Do you want to see a change

Snow’d in April didn’t get sun

Now everybody whines too much

We’ve been caught up in the cycle bruv

It’s been happening for days and months

Do you want to see a change

Placed five bets didn’t win one

Snowed in April didn’t get sun