I'm only 23 but I feel like I'm older, d'beta I'm a hunchback from carryin the world on my shoulders If the world all hold us in the land of tony blair it's hard to BBC my dreams n stay focused And I've always been a loner in the form of a trio the three amigos who? me, myself and I aint no N' ain't nutin changed but ma size, and the fact I'm on the rise, it's two thousand and five I'm everybody's friend now, I'm everybody's cousin cuz I'm the up n' comer comin up I see him comin To eat with the up n' comer Sleep with the up n' do songs with and try steal heat from the up n' comer The only person I trust is my mother from day dot through all the ups n' coming down she supported me She said that I'ma keep it, pregnant in secret, ignoring all the encouragements to have aborted me Family cursing me forgettin it coulda been worse remember I chose the beats over the streets Kept on tellin me to go to university it's all reversed now, now that I'm tipped to do well commercially As for friends? we've moved on and grown up I used to rap with a crew called one, We broke up now being solo only shows you who your true friends are when you invite them to shows but they don't show up I don't wanna hear the cries no more Find your dream I'm chasing mine Give it all you got n strive for more Life's too short to waste my time n I look up at the sky and all I see; is I can only rely on me becuz at the end of the day I'm still on my own You mighta seen me standin on the streets tryna sell my CD's at five pound a pop it was me, X-I-LEM P Back to the studio to make another beat, no whip this was all done by fee then we called up michael merridith to get a good mix He put it on a DAP, I put it on a DISC n we give it to the DJ's to throw to put it out and a little bit of DAT a little bit of DIS Life's a bitch, in a relationship with time, sleepin wiv me on the side! Lay front of life is death n I'm a young dog tryna stay alive I look at life DOGGY STYLE! There ain't no stoppin me now no lookin back to when I was trapped between religions it wasn't simple Because I feared bending over backwards to get into heaven only to end up in limbo N this is what I'm sayin now... I don't wanna hear the cries no more Find your dream I'm chasing mine Give it all you got n strive for more Life's too short to waste my time n I look up at the sky and all I see is; I can only rely on me becuz at the end of the day I'm still on my own N this is what I'm sayin now... Don't need nobody... gonna do it on my own.