As Time Goes By Lyrics

As Time Goes By by Devlin

• I'm fed up with life at the minute
• So I get it off my chest when I'm writing my lyrics
• Having to give my Nan hospital visits
• I just pray to God she don't turn to a spirit
• Cause she's the only Nan I've got left
• And it hurts in my head when I contemplate her death
• Knowing that one day soon she'll be gone
• That thought leaves me short of breath
• Yeah that's just one of the things
• That makes me feel like I'm running in rings
• No process made that's a regular thing
• But if I stop spitting that would be the death of a king
• I've got to learn to focus my mind at the lowest of times
• Then lo and behold the scene could be mine
• Draw you a picture with words I describe with a caption beside

• As life goes by, in the blink of an eye
• I stay focused on writing my rhymes
• These streets are inviting to crime
• If I didn't write music I'd probably go mad in my mind
• Because it's only music that keeps me sane
• Plus bud and beers to forget the pain
• Just reflecting my days go away

• Let me tell another story, tell about a 23 year old man that don't wanna' fail
• Every move he makes his heart's in it, from the start to the finish
• Because losing ain't never ever been an option
• Constantly cooking up plans and concoctions
• Raised in a place called Hoxton
• By his Nan and granddad, gets to see his mum on a weekend
• That was a treat then she was spoilt rotten and then its back to the east then
• Years later man will be sick with a big pen
• Living in a place where the youths strap big lens
• Pure drama a star performer leave the boost so hot u could call it a sauna
• 10 out of 10 I'm back at it again whatever the outcome its music to the end

• As life goes by, in the blink of an eye
• I stay focused on writing my rhymes
• These streets are inviting to crime
• If I didn't write music I'd probably go mad in my mind
• Because it's only music that keeps me sane
• Plus bud and beers to forget the pain
• Just reflecting my days go away

• Just another day in the life this music ain't paying me right
• Like a worker at MacDonald's receiving minimum wage
• I get pennies for the shit that I've write on the pages
• Like I'm feeling so what in slaved due to power and urban decay
• There ain't no prospects in the UK today
• So my mates keep playing up the 'caine
• I don't know what I stand in the struggling and strain
• I'm trapped in the thunder and rain
• But I don't give a fuck for the fame so if I full pray to my sins then lust is to blame
• I'm in your ear like blood in your veins
• And yeah I'm on the road like buskers and trains
• I'm just like everyone I love to be paid
• I'm messed up it must be the bud that I blaze
• There ain't nothing for us
• The way I'm feeling there ain't no word in the thesaurus
• Born on the 7th of may I'm a Taurus
• Can't keep my job cause I can't take orders
• I feel like I'm outside of the borders
• Looking inside of the rich and the borders then I take a look around my headquarters
• And I'm ripping my hair out soon my heads gonna' look like Gail Porter's
• They hit us with extortion and treat illegal immigrants much more important than me and you
• Cause I've lived there all my life and live got nothing to show for it
• And you can't get rich from work so spitting I've gotta' have a really good go at it
• I've put my boat in the stream and now I keep rowing it it's my dream I won't let go of it

• As life goes by, in the blink of an eye
• I stay focused on writing my rhymes
• These streets are inviting to crime
• If I didn't write music I'd probably go mad in my mind
• Because it's only music that keeps me sane
• Plus bud and beers to forget the pain
• Just reflecting my days go away

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