Lyrics This Is My Demo - Sway

Ladies and gentleman
Welcome to the end of the beginning
My name is Sway
AKA Little Derek
And right now
I′m about to take you
To the very beginning
Before the after
Prior to the present
Before the hype
Before the magazines
Before the buzz
And before the mix tape
Back to the blood, sweat and tears

Growing up I had too much on my mind
I needed a way to get all of this crap out of my head
So I chose music
This is my beginning
This is my introduction
This is my dream
Listen very carefully
This is my demo

Yeah, it's tha arrival of Decihper
Live from this London dungeon (underground)
That′s where I've been puttin' it
Down for my people on the
North side (Get up)
East side (Get up)
West side (Get up)
South side (Get up)
Inside (Yeah)
Outside (Yeah)
Get up, get up, get up, get up

(Underground) Under
That′s what I′m sayin yeah?
And for years
That's how long I waited here
And I′m prepared
Back then people never wanted to hear me though
That's when I had to shoot a ′lil video
Now I'm giving you the album
Here we go!

Ever since I was a ′lil kid about six, seven, eight, nine or ten
I always wanted to be bigga than Big Ben
But dreams can easily come to an end
When your livin' in the big L-o-n-d-o-n
The city dat never sleeps so how do we dream?
'Lil kids forced to think like men and the big smoke just gets you lean
To get a good start in life I took a run up instead of pickin′ a gun up
I picked up a pen, and I shoot for the sky
Run up on the clouds
That′s why I got one up on you clowns
Now I'm becomin′ da talk of da town
Just yesterday I was walkin' around
Tryin′ to figure out how I'm gonna come up on the crowd
Now I′m in the middle when the gathering crowds are sayin'

(Sway) The beginning is still in my memory
(Sway) I was sittin' in my school assembly
(Sway) Never listen to what tha teachers tellin′ me
(Sway) I was thinkin′, "Will I live to seventy?"
(Sway) And if I die will the world remember me?
(Sway) Who's my frends and who′s my enemies?
(Sway) Who will love and who will envy me?
(Sway) Now I'm ready for whatever is meant to be

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my blood sweat and tears in this music
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) You′re listening to
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) This is my demo

Once upon a time in a place called Harrogate
Lived this average African black kid tryin' to get up in this (industry)
Flat 23, Brook Road, he would practice rapping rapidly
This rap MC had a lot to say with a little time so he rapped quick
Not to say he never had any frends, but he never had many
Never had a penny to access the inside 05-09-82
Flew back to the Motherland where he grew
Flew back to the other land he was to (to)
English boy with African accent 05-09-92
Using the music rooms at his school

Recording rhythms then he rid ′em with riddles
Now he's an African boy with an English accent
Now he's 22
And your listening too
His first official LP debut
And I got the energy (Uh)
I′m not jus′ an NIG (Uh)
I'm still hungry and I′m eag (Uh)
And I'm more ready than I′ve ever been (Uh)
Because I've been pursuing this thing from school
Since commodore
Atari and Amiga

Remember me sir?
I ain′t in it to be number two
Five albums that's what I'm gonna do
Five albums then I′m done
Then I′m through
The enemies all can bite the dust
This is all before the hype, the buzz
This is all before the wife, the lust
The lies the thugs with knives and guns
It's entertainment for you, but it′s life for us
It's time to buzz, my niggas

(Sway) The beginning is still in my memory
(Sway) I was sittin′ in my school assembly
(Sway) Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me
(Sway) I was thinkin′, "Will I live to seventy?"
(Sway) And if I die will the world remember me?
(Sway) Who's my frends and who's my enemies?
(Sway) Who will love and who will envy me?
(Sway) Now I′m ready for whatever is meant to be

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my blood sweat and tears in this music
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) You′re listening to
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) This is my demo

Our Father, who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those
Who trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
For thine is the kingdom
And the power, and the glory
For ever and ever
Amen

I've got angels on my Nokia
I′m out here, and I got no fear
No foes or no phobias
So all those plottin' with the obeahs
And voodoo deres no hope for yah
Hang yourself I got rope for yah
I said deres no hope for yah
Hang yourself I got rope for yah

′Cause God would never let the devil harm any G's
And when I′m in the dark read Psalms 23
I'm trying to do good on the path for the beasts
A place where the bad boys are the police
Trapped in between the Imam and the priest
And I can't see
If I′m gonna be in the Church with a cross around my neck
Or in a Mosque with a Quran and a palm full of beads

(Sway) The beginning is still in my memory
(Sway) I was sittin′ in my school assembly
(Sway) Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me
(Sway) I was thinkin′, "Will I live to seventy?"
(Sway) And if I die will the world remember me?
(Sway) Who's my frends and who′s my enemies?
(Sway) Who will love and who will envy me?
(Sway) Now I'm ready for whatever is meant to be

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my blood sweat and tears in this music
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) You′re listening to
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) This is my demo

Charlie boy
Ah, ah who is that?
Oh, it is I your brother Koffi
What are you doing outside in the dark, in the height of the night?
Oh Koffi, I'm planning to travel, I'm planning to go abroad
So you are planing to escape the village, that is a taboo

Nonsense Koffi, you shut up, you idiot
You just forget about taboo, just forget about taboo
You too, what are you doing here anyway?
I was going to do a shit, when I smell your filthy armpits
And I follow the smell all the way to here
Shut up, you bastard

Who is bastard, who are you, anyway where are you going?
I′m going to Buckingham Palace, London to eat champagne with the queen
Charlie you didn′t even have I cedi to embark on such enormous journey
Nonsense Koffi, you forget about cedis, just forget about cedis
How are you going to get there?
Ehen, I'm going to make it myself, jump in the river and swim
And I′m not going to stop untill I see white people

Eh Charlie, you are truly great
Oh Koffi, you too are also great
One day you are going to be the U.N. secretary
Me? Thank you Charlie thank you so much, I you are so grateful
Oh kai, don't you worry, anyway I′m going to go now, bye bye
Bye bye, Charlie bring me fish and chips