I paid the price Too busy living life in the fast lane Ignored the lights And now i'm over here with this heart pain I paid the price Too busy living life in the fast lane Ignored the lights And now i'm over here with this heart pain I've been Drinking and smoking Smoking and drinking And when I get in this position I slowly start thinking I'm in no condition to waste time, too many ambitions So I do this with my team and we push to the limit I wear my heart upon my sleeve, can see it beating on my arm I'll be living through these writings, and I barely use my palms They do it for a rollie, but we do it for the craft Reconnected with the old me I heard Manik when he told me Breathe deep Then breathe out Rebel with a wrong cause, like Rowdy I reroute I connect with some masters, I'm feeling like Steve Stoute I'm talking about my G's, my brothers that been down But meanwhile I wonder where time goes Cause it was only yesterday that I was on the highroad Sister holding my hand Mummy pushing a pram I'm entering my prime I realised it's borrowed time God I finally understand I paid the price Too busy living life in the fast lane Ignored the lights And now i'm over here with this heart pain I paid the price Too busy living life in the fast lane Ignored the lights And now i'm over here with this heart pain Ayo it's daytime London city crouching under grey skies Used to jump out of school to serve fiends during playtime Yo, me and mines are tryna take time to take time The snakes still gossiping, profiting off the grapevine For real Still out here tryna build Been twisting up these words, tryna see what they reveal Been seeking somethin' real Not knowing what that means Disappear into the east I took a couple years to breathe and find peace So don't tell me i'm not trying, I'm just stuck in a rut Yo, stick in the beat and gimme the mic And i'll be ****ing it up Never hesitated, fixated They say love is a drug Sometimes no matter how hard you try blud Love ain't enough Thoughts bubbling up Mumzie told me aim for the sky Another blank page staring back vacant and white With all this smoking and this drinking I been chasing the highs I spill my soul into these rhymes Now i'm paying the price I paid the price Too busy living life in the fast lane Ignored the lights And now i'm over here with this heart pain I paid the price Too busy living life in the fast lane Ignored the lights And now i'm over here with this heart pain