All in the Ghetto

Once it was budget and rubbish and proper duggish here

Then, "we wanna rough it, we love it, we're takin' over here!"

And all these posh up-and-comers pushin' us out of here

Nah it's too lovey, yo let's get out of here

But now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the...

Squattin' like it's hot

All in the ghetto

Cheap not cheerful

All in the ghetto

Push up the rent

All in the ghetto

Fresh outta university

We scout a cool and dirty scene

Somewhere nice and cheap with lots of Turkish peeps or Caribbeans

Authentic with rent I can afford

Could we got cool jobs that will keep us poor

Cheap pizzas, whores, (brap! brap!), gang wars

There's a certain ambiance you can't help but adore

Creatives and professionals are comin' in hordes

And bicycles that might as well be little Trojan horses

Locals don't like this

To the cool new parties they ain't invited

It's your trashy phase but it's how I live

What the ****'s a latte; what's with these prices?

Boo hoo hoo, see how it's all changed?

Used to be community, now I don't know the neighbors' names

Ooh ooh ooh now it's not the same

We came when it was real and now the scene's got tame

Okay

But now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the...

Squattin' like it's hot

All in the ghetto

Cheap not cheerful

All in the ghetto

Push up the rent

All in the ghetto

Art gallery, top end, it's called The Den

Cuz once it was the hot spot for crack

Monday nights we sip martinis at the crack fiend's back

Really brings the art alive like rock stars on smack!

Somebody got shot for 99 pence

Outside the vegan spot I frequent

But wid' our nice bread we like excitement

So that put the prices up 9 percent

Now when we all go in for a whole-grain sandwich

We go wearin' a cool, fake, blood-stained bandage

It's trashionable to look trampy

But is that an art installation or a homeless man?

Please stand it

See the manor's all changed

We were squattin' like it's hot and then they bring out the cranes

Less crack about, but there's more c*****e

There's a lot more Harries and a lot less brains

So when I move to my manor with my artist's life

Artichokes, and my nice tofu fried

They supply my demand to build somewhere nice

And it's good for everyone if you can pay the price

But now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the...

Squattin' like it's hot

All in the ghetto

Cheap not cheerful

All in the ghetto

Push up the rent

All in the ghetto

Brown, black, and Polish

My ends are brown, black, and Polish

'Round here is brown, black, and Polish

It hasn't been tidied up yet

Brown, black, and Polish

From the sky it looks like cheap bread slightly toasted

Bread crumbs up on the table with the roaches

Kids pop out of their cots into their doltage

Brown, black, and Polish

Well you already know this

Been through the ends like a tourist

Come for your colour you calories not falseness

Don't watch face bring a wallet and a boldness

Mini cabs, porridge, kebab and money postage

Sugarcane, gats, phone cards of coasters(?)

Brown, black and polish

B-b-brown, black and polish

So come and *** in the (CESPIC?)

It's hated breathless sweat drips

Every color's represented but separate

It's a pot but I've never seen it melting

Men stacking up the pennies that you're spending

To their families back home is where they send it

A few poor white old peeps left here, the rest all left here

Bring that Arabic mix with black spit *** on cast

Freshy kids with college books in their bags

To the new way please say don't go back

(Probably Arabic) now when you look like that

It's brown, black, and Polish

My ends are brown, black, and Polish

'Round here is brown, black, and Polish

(Probably Arabic, too)

But now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the ghetto

Now we all in the...

Squattin' like it's hot

All in the ghetto

Cheap not cheerful

All in the ghetto

Push up the rent

All in the ghetto