ayy one one one peace peace peace ayy yeah we come in peace peace peace ayy from the west to the east north to the south in the belly of the beast ayy one one one one two two ayy feels like ayy that we sit and watch the sky turning ever grey black and white watching money leading ben astray falling in and out of light as the heavens spray ayy we mix the whiskey with the lemonade ayy tryna counteract the methylphenidate used to laugh when i said it made my belly ache my belly ached everyday yo it never changed i wasn t ready for the grave but i was ready to be paid trust i know we re never getting saved twenty four mixed race living twelve years a slave ayy my grandfather getting knuckled by the pepper spray more fire brixton riot like a renegade seeing him setting fire to rain as the letters fade no doubt i was raised out the south tell your ex boyfriend to keep my name out his mouth i been in and out to drag your pain out the house being brave something proud say my name i m about there comes a time in everyone s life when you have to fall in love once or twice  it never really feels like ayy back when i thought i d never touch the motherland ayy because my skin s a different colour to them other man but still they re calling me the coloured man so you can find me in a straight peanut butter jam sticky make her fingers snap like a rubber band we expand like a grand in another hand melts like butter in the pan as the others ran damn but me i stuck around no doubt pull the figure out flower in the ground down south know what i m about just another clown red snout running at the mouth in another town drown drown ayy when everyone was in the same place ayy and we were stuck up in that same race same face listening to beats with the same taste waste but now my beats come from la californ king of the streets kick it like pele you see that dip in the ground it s bad soil it s lc and madlib it s mad loyle there comes a time in everyone s life when you have to fall in love once or twice cool4