Day Ones

Fuse ODG

And we drink and we smoke
And we laugh and we joke
I spend money with my day ones
Back then we were broke
And we were running down the pagans
On the ends on some smoke
And now we balling like the lakers
Now we counting these notes

Make money, can't take this from me
Make money, can't take this from me

I can never take for granted
Things that look standard
Chilling with my day ones even though I just landed
It might just look random
Mitcham with the mandem
Order Caribbean rice and peas with the plantain
They can never be abandoned
Regardless where I'm heading
Miami to LA fly to Ghana back to London
I hope you overstanding
We blessed in abundance
We used to be outside in the streets we were slanging
And now you know it be my songs they be banging
And still we see the pagans in the streets we go bang dem
And now we dey East Legon with the peacocks they be sanging
I'm here with the mandem in the ODG mansion
And I love the growth word to my locks we be hanging
You know we stick together they're my bruddas we be ganging
You know we chop together we're together we be planning
We sitting just to take over the world, outstanding

And we drink and we smoke
And we laugh and we joke
I spend money with my day ones
Back then we were broke
And we were running down the pagans
On the ends on some smoke
And now we balling like the lakers
Now we counting these notes

And we drink and we smoke
And we laugh and we joke
I spend money with my day ones
Back then we were broke
And we were running down the pagans
On the ends on some smoke
And now we balling like the lakers
Now we counting these notes

Make money, can't take this from me
Make money, can't take this from me

I remember at my mum's yard the bailiffs outside
Banging on the door I think I was around 5
I never understood the hardship about life
And now my fam good we chilling in the south side
It's been a long time since I heard from my bredrin
Them lock him up in jail it was only for possession
Now them legalise it what a waste of life this now
(He could've taken advise)

Yeah we had to pull our own moves
For the things that we were lacking
Had to put the youths together coz the government wasn't backing
We lost our only bredrin to a playground stabbing
He was only sixteen that's another young fallen
Now it feels like it's our calling
So we had to put our all in
Me and Mr. Hackett on the big board drawing
Had to visualise it just to realise it
Now we record-breaking worldwide

And we drink and we smoke
And we laugh and we joke
I spend money with my day ones
Back then we were broke
And we were running down the pagans
On the ends on some smoke
And now we balling like the lakers
Now we counting these notes

And we drink and we smoke
And we laugh and we joke
I spend money with my day ones
Back then we were broke
And we were running down the pagans
On the ends on some smoke
And now we balling like the lakers
Now we counting these notes

Make money, can't take this from me
Make money, can't take this from me