I know I got religion I belong to the laws and crew You see we fought and we get happy That´s the way we push them through Oh
(Have you been tried-)
[Fredo] Have you been tried in that fire? I heard bullets sing higher than Mariah in choir Spent a lot of time trappin´, now I´m tryna retire But the shit runs in my blood and I´m the guy they require And these guns bring nothin´ but prison and death, still All my niggas just admire the fire Bro squeeze and he miss, but we admire a trier Finesse king, you can never lie to a liar But Fred got the fire, I fire for days I gotta write them in my notes, they be ignitin´ the page Grindin´ on cold nights, puttin´ light to the flame
Now there´s no flame that can melt the ice in my chain, yeah I really put the ice in rice for the ´caine Me and Santan, you won´t see nothin´ like this again That´s my young boys again, on the glide with the flame I just really hope your block came with fire-escapes
[Meekz] Before my entrance, I took the fire exit Tried and tested, about twenty times arrested Two times guilty, no comment, I guess they guessed it Couple times bail, no forensics This a easy pendant, I don´t need a necklace We stay protected and connected
It´s the energies I´m blessed with And now they watchin´ like Netflix, had me doin´ next shit Tryna get rich, but what´s rich? Took more losses than Boris I sold more boxes than the post-office Twenty-one in jail, it turned me so solid Why you think my vision sick, I changed the game in my brain And sold robotics If you fell in my fire, you probably roast on it Heat up the stove, I put hope on it Cah they don´t care ´bout our lives, I put my soul on it I´m done tryna be somebody to some nobodies I´m bein´ so honest, and they don´t know porridge
[Ghetts]
If I get burned while I´m watchin´, higher learnin´ Guns bustin´, tyres turnin´, that´s a Russian and a German That´s your phone ringin´, you can hear the beep You won´t be saved by the bell when you hear the screech And it´s so deep, open, ocean This man escapin´ some shells they can barely see Me and bro raisin´ hell, we gon´ share the heat Now put us in the same cell, we gon´ share the sleep Am I my brother´s keeper? (It´s deeper) I´m my brother´s leader (Speaker) I´m the eldest The one who had to make a name so the bells ring So nobody would trouble my siblings in this whirlwind
My older cousin wasn´t known for nothin´ Never had no one I could call, but I was old in somethin´ I´m diggin´ deep with tool like I´m known for plumbin´ Somethin´ in your chest like it´s Robitussin Word to arsonist, I burn all this I stood in front of all three dragons and heard "Dracarys" And now we´re jumpin´ out G-Wagons and murkin´ parties Man are comin´ out with bangers and dirty dancin´ Nobody puts baby in a corner I uplift my girl, like I´m Swayze in the water And if it´s already written, maybe I´m the author So accustomed to the fire, I get shivers when I´m naked in the sauna How, many times have they mistaken me for Scorcher?
I´m lookin´ in the mirror, sayin´ "Justin, just cool, huh" Send Ghetts downstairs and tell them "Just bring me water" And tell Ghetts I put somethin´ in the formula I´m focused, I don´t need to burn the kush This is Moses speakin´ to the burnin´ bush I stood in front of the fire and learned to cook Finished my verse and never heard a hook
[Giggs] Riskiest numbers, this jungle, stick through your youngers He´s hungry, picked off the fungus Kept humble, slipped him a hundred Yeah, lived in a dungeon Those AirMax, which nigga stung them? Can´t walk in my shoes, you could be riskin´ a bunion
The government´s twisted I cover this shift to cover this Christmas Forget them old friends, I´m done with those bitches They color coded my brothers and sisters Run the rhythm, you´re a brother, but you run the rhythm Try accusin´ me of colorism Blinded ´cause you look at me with tunnel vision I was fallin´, but I´ve gone and risen Is this nigga trusty or Sideshow Bob when he´s creepin´ on Krusty? Streets keep me tusslin´, people disgust me Racist disease, that shit that disgust me Don´t touch me on the streets with the sweeper ´Cause the streets pretty dusty And I´ve always had love for genuine people that bust me
Santan and the gang advicer, I´ma check him out, I´m a analyzer She was callin´ me an antagonizer Let me sanitize, where´s the sanitizer? (Jheeze) Just flutter by, he said "Giggs can you handle this?" He said "Float like a butterfly" I bring truths, but they love a lie Plans, I´m the man you should run ´em by
[Dave] In the fire, been tried Affected the way I been wired inside You can hide or glide I could´ve been deported That´s the definition of a "Fight or flight" You can type all you like I know about homeless
Immigration, they took me from my mums arms Fuck a gun charge, two swords, I´m a Ronin Błaszczykowski, I´m tryna score with the Polish Pain in my eyes, plans of me stayin´ in the guide With a vision that will changin´ my life Crimes on the rise, hates on the rise Feel like everythin´ but my mum´s pay´s on the rise "Did you come through?" that´s the question Affording a burner was never mans problem Adoption, we couldn´t find homes for the weapons By the station, we got polls, no election In the fire, been tested Before I had money, it was time I invested Nothin´ change, still time I invest in Watch-game delicate, Tutankhamun, it´s money in skeletons All I gotta do is point, they´re gonna sever his head And tell **** that we´re better as friends Nights that I can´t remember with some people I could never forget Caza Cruz, you could bet a Nusr-et Don´t make me call a young gunner in the back of a ped Slappin´ a lead, civilians grappin´ your friends There´s chaos on the main road They called choppers and PEDs All because of some shit that you said I got killers with me (Killers with me) And they love me, they make a mans heart stop The shit you find horrifyin´ gets laughed off I´m like Meekz, bro, I won´t stop, can´t stop Yeah, it´s kinda different when the fire´s what you start from
In the fire (Yeah) Have you been tried in the fire? Oh (Yeah) Have you been?
Do your research to travel Don´t see, don´t really see the corners of the world that ain´t really interest you And then, ehm, you know, ´cause then you meet new people And then those people will tell you new stories Then you become a voice for the voiceless I mean, you should ask Daniel, really, where he goes to find himself ´Cause I don´t know anything, I´m just speculatin´ More importantly for you and your family You then get to ask the questions and answer the questions About where you were made Like "Where you come from, Where you´re goin, London, Lagos, LA" The journey is the film