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Professor Green
Professor Green


Background information
Birth name Stephen Manderson
Born November 27, 1983
Origin Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom
Genre(s) Grime
Hip-hop
Electronic
Years active 2006—present
Label(s) Virgin Records
Associated acts Lily Allen
Example
The Streets
Labrinth
Website Website



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Professor Green Album


Alive Till I'm Dead (07/19/2010)
07/19/2010
1.
Kids That Love To Dance (feat. Emeli Sandé)
2.
Just Be Good To Green (feat. Lily Allen)
3.
I Need You Tonight (feat. Ed Drewett)
4.
5.
Oh My God (feat. Labrinth)
6.
Jungle (feat. Maverick Sabre)
7.
8.
9.
Monster (feat. Example)
10.
Closing The Door (feat. Fink)
11.
Where Do We Go (feat. Shereen Shabanaa)
12.
*
Crying Game (feat. The Streets; iTunes bonus track)
*
All To Myself (Play.com bonus track)
. . .


professor green:
i can't handle my drugs,
so blame Sha and his hand for the buds,
before these vocals I was tee total till the AK,
now I'm back and I'm buzzed
get funky, light one up
get skunky, so toast to, me!
toast to green,

. . .


Friends tell me I am crazy, that I'm wasting time with you
You'll never be mine (Just be good to me)
Just be good to me

Ha, just be good to Green
All I need is a woman to be good to me,
I'm an easy man, I'm easily pleased
And you provide me with everything that I need
Look, you know I make ends off crime
So hold onto yours, we're spending mine
Though you try, I'll never let you buy
But if I was broke would you still be spending time? (Yes)
And I believe you would
Don't think P's too f**ked to treat you good.
I walk street with you, (yes) Talk deep with you (Yes)
Even slip and spend all week with you, then I'm off
You wish i'd put an end to the torment, stop,
But one thing, it's not ever boring.
What would you rather me be like?
I'm not ever gonna change, are you ever gonna realise?

People always talk about
(Look, people are always gonna talk babes)
Reputation
(I'm not even gonna lie, it's sh*t
But it ain't like you don't know mine is.)
I don't care what you do to them,
Just be good to me (I'll try, I'll try, I'll try)

Look, babes, you know who I am,
But as crooked as I am, I'll be as good as I can
I can try and try,
But we'll settle that my angel face is disguise for the devil inside
You're good to me, I ain't good to girls, me, I'm a bad boy
Something every good girl needs
Honesty can avoid all your tantrums,
But I'm a naughty boy and I always have been
What, and I ain't changing anytime soon,
I can't have you with me whenever I move
Whatever I do, I come back to you,
See, the good attracts me and the crook attracts you -Whatever
What, we all got our ways, remember us talking, of course it was game
But it's all gonna change,
Now she got me cutting off links like I'm trying to shorten my chain

Lily Allen:
People always talk about reputation
-Look, people are always going to talk, babes
(I ain't even going to lie, shit, it ain't like you to know what mine is)
I don't care what you do to them, just be good to me
I'll try, I'll try, I'll try

Friends are always telling me you're a user
-Not me, not ever
Ain't no other man going to treat you better
I don't care what you do to them, just be good to me
I'll try, I'll try, I'll try

I'll be good to you, you'll be good to me
We can be together, be together (just be good to me)
I'll be good to you, you'll be good to me
We can be together, be together (just be good to me)
(Why you always gotta listen to your friend,
why you always listenin' to them,
Why you always gotta listen to your friend)
I don't care what you do to them, just be good to me

. . .


This ain't so stereotypical man, not for a stereotypical man,
It should be me that wants to get rid of you
instead it's you that don't give a damn (what')
It was meant to be a one night 'ting,
nothing more than a little one night fling,
now when I'm in need you're the one I ring I (I need you tonight)

But she's playing hard to get,
brunette with such class she's hard to forget,
see at first I wasn't after her heart
but I couldn't stop thinking about her after I left.
I'm beginning to lose my cool, it appears in love
I have fallen (whoops!) I'm ready to put my all in
and all she does is ignore my calls again'

CHORUS:
She's everything I want, but all that I don't need
How can she be so hot, yet be so cold to me
How can it be so wrong, and yet it feels so right
I wish I never, but I need you tonight!

This lady is driving me crazy,
she blows like I'm cold like the AC.
I just can't figure her out next time I'm with her
I'm pinning her down (Oi)
I'm gonna' figure out if she's on it or not (not, not)
'cos all of this shit is long (long, long)
See I front like I'm okay but I'm not,
I'm being played at my own game and it's long (long blud).
I ain't no iiidiot, I'm pro I'm no intermediate
so next time she phones me
I'm not even gonna pick up the phone to speak in it (ring) nope,
swear down, (ring) wait a minute, that's her now..

(hello')
(I really wanna' see you today)
(Alright, just give me a time and a place)

CHORUS:
She's everything I want, but all that I don't need
How can she be so hot, yet be so cold to me
How can it be so wrong, and yet it feels so right
I wish I never, but I need you tonight!

I need you, I need you
I need you, I need you
I need you, I want you, won't stop until I've got you,
there's nothing that I won't do
I need you tonight

Look, I ain't never been the type to be this (nope)
I ain't never been the type to be with jee,
six bro's in the side of me that, I'm tryna' fight,
I'm tryna' hide! My pride, I'm tryna' find it,
but ain't seen it I'm an eejit,
I know I can't help it im fiending!
(I need you tonight)

CHORUS
She's everything I want, but all that I don't need
How can she be so hot, yet be so cold to me
How can it be so wrong, and yet it feels so right
I wish I never, but I need you tonight!

I need you, I need you
(I swear down)
I need you, I need you'

. . .


[Chorus]
We ain't got no time, in the city of gold
Trying to get me some sunshine
An avoid the patrol
Ah yea

[Verse 1]
I'm fed up
All I want is a little nice weather when I get
A lot of people arrive zealous
But life here's, less than a dream, more a nightmare
Welcome to the city of gold, the city I roam
Home to the grittiest roads
It's hardly a party, getting our p's
On the same corner where women sell narni
I live amongst vermin I'm stuck
But I couldn't give a, fuck as long as I'm earning
Long been accustomed to the ways of the manor
The filth are an occupational hazard
Parked chilling in a car park grinning
It's gone midnight an I'm half past sinning
Got a dark heart wicked with my ras clart lyrics
I'm a bad boy you don't wanna start no shit with

[Chorus]
We ain't got no time
(No time on these streets, everybody's hungry and trying to eat)
In the city of gold (Everybody's out for their own, it's hot round 'ere even when your out in the cold)
Tryin to get me some sunshine (It's hard to find peace here, never can you be easy, always gotta beware)
An avoid the patrol (But that's life in the inner city, up to bother trying not to get collared by the piggies)
Ah yea

[Verse 2]
Time's precious
An it moves fast in a city full of bright lights and tight dresses
Medusa's that'll seduce ya if ya ain't ready
A city that makes few and breaks many
The city I'm in's, less like the city of gold
More like the city of sin
Where everybody's in it to win
From villainous nippers to city slickers with sinister grins
Straight, ain't religous, never been into hynms
An I pushed bars before I'd ever been in a gym
So for my freedom I keep hoping
Cause I don't wanna walk through the doors these keys open
I don't know if you think it's nice or something?
But I can show you a different side to London
To think you came here for the treasure?
But nobody ever came here for the weather

[Chorus]
We ain't got no time
(No time on these streets, everybody's hungry and trying to eat)
In the city of gold (Everybody's out for their own, it's hot round 'ere even when your out in the cold)
Tryin to get me some sunshine (It's hard to find peace here, never can you be easy, always gotta beware)
An avoid the patrol (But that's life in the inner city, up to bother trying not to get collared by the piggies)
Ah yea

[Verse 3]
Jack the lad I put the work in
For the wage of sin
Even if by some poor sod's loss
I care not I will take the win
Many came so full of hope
Only to be deflated
The roads we walk ain't paved in gold
Alone is how our days spent
Don't think cause I'm polite that I'm nice g
Or cause I'm well dressed I ain't grimy
I got food for them city heads
Just another aggie yout that the city bread
The cloud I'm under thunders loud
I ain't waiting for the day the sun comes out
If you wonder what I'm under now
The same shit I was and will be till I'm underground

[Chorus]
We ain't got no time
(No time on these streets, everybody's hungry and trying to eat)
In the city of gold (Everybody's out for their own, it's hot round 'ere even when your out in the cold)
Tryin to get me some sunshine (It's hard to find peace here, never can you be easy, always gotta beware)
An avoid the patrol (But that's life in the inner city, up to bother trying not to get collared by the piggies)
Ah yea

. . .


Ohh woahhh oh oohh x 4

Are you ready for the revolution
my elocution is execution i am a electrocuted
what the hell am i doing up no idea
but catch a wiff of my fingers
and you can still smell susan
smell like a ashtray breath stinking of liquor
pocket full of change and yesterdays get up
same jeans that i had the day before
laaaaa

guess i'm raps george best with a lot more sex
a little more liquor and alot more sex

Chorus
sometimes we take it too far
knocked out, sick on my guitar
and i hear them say
oh my god, say oh my god, say oh my got
lay my head down on the bar
cause wiskey never taste good
when i hear them say
oh my god, say oh my god, say oh my god.


verse 2
the first look you make me shiver, sipper
k, picking at yesterdays dinner
the way i say things it figures im Paige thicker
when i thing says spitters make her say uhhh
get insain and wanna get in my way picker
day when you wanna get with a rated star
diss me not (im frisky)what
still itching to get me cock in pixie lott

just call me raps george best with a lot more sex
a little more liquor and alot more sex

Chorus
sometimes we take it too far
knocked out, sick on my guitar
and i hear them say
oh my god, say oh my god, say oh my got
lay my head down on the bar
cause wiskey never taste good
when i hear them say
oh my god, say oh my god, say oh my god.


i do drugs casue i like the bus
go sleep wake up feeling like i tried to fight a bus
bearly functioning alcoholic
liveing life like a student but with a pop stars walllet
always smiling with my new teeth
two e's two cubes rules two 2ps

. . .


I see no point in living life that right, so I just take what I can find.
I see no point in living life that right, when your out here in this jungle.
It's wild round 'ere, you don't wanna spend a night round 'ere.
When your out here in this jungle, aint nothing nice round 'ere, troubles what you find round 'ere.
When your out here in this jungle, in this jungle.
Your always caught in this struggle, in this jungle .
But you keep asking for trouble, you love? You love when trouble comes your way, your way, your way.

Verse 1

Welcome to Hackney, a place where I think somebody's been playing Jumanji.
A Manor where man are like animals, an' they'll yam on you like they yam on food.
Cats with claws that'll stab a yout', act bad an' catch a slap or two.
We don't applaud success, all we clap are tools.
London aint cool to cruise through where the hunters pray, Looking lunch today, and your chains looking like fresh fruit to a hungry ape.
They'll eat on you, then laugh about it like Hyenas do, so stick to breezing through, like cheeta's do or be a piece of food.

Chorus

When your out here in this jungle.
It's wild round 'ere, you don't wanna spend a night round 'ere.
When your out here in this jungle, aint nothing nice round 'ere, troubles what you find round 'ere.
When your out here in this jungle, in this jungle.
Your always caught in this struggle, in this jungle .
But you keep asking for trouble, you love? You love when trouble comes your way, your way, your way.

Verse 2

It's blitz admist the strife here, got kids with sticks and knifes here.
It's hype here, we know no different prick; it's just life here, life the way we know from young the way we're shown.
Stacked trapped in flats where our front doors don't face the road.
God CID spinning round in cars, shifting criminals at large, it's hard, not to think the bits are just a bing without the bars.
Jealousy's what the cheddar brings, for the cheddar it's anything goes, low enough to rob newly weds for their wedding rings
Everyday is warring, never give a warning, violence is the only way you settle things, everyday is hating, money that I'm making, jealous 'cause I'm moving on to better things, everyday is fighting, rolling in the night now. All you do is watch everyone else get far, you say that life is hard..
When your out here in this jungle.
It's wild round 'ere, you don't wanna spend a night round 'ere.
When your out here in this jungle, aint nothing nice round 'ere, troubles what you find round 'ere.
When your out here in this jungle, in this jungle.
Your always caught in this struggle, in this jungle .
But you keep asking for trouble, you love? You love when trouble comes your way, your way, your way


. . .


i used to sell drugs for a living,
even though i changed my career, im still stuck where im living.

. . .


Yogi man,
I'm sicka this shit bruv, swear down,
just as things start looking up,
it all goes to shit again,
story of my fucking life!

I don't wanna live my life this way,
picture me behind a desk...

Picture that,
a 9-to-5 I ain't into that,
I'm into rap an I don't see me gettin' an office job with these tats,
So what choice do I have man?
Do I sign on or do I bag grams?
Long signing for dole,
I wanna get signed for my flow an my rhymes,
I'm a pro when I'm nice I know,
If I grind then I'll blow so why,
am I wasting time on the roads,
now Mike's interested,
I should probably give it a rest before I get arrested.

(chorus)
Why don't I learn from my mistakes?
Why oh why, oh why...
All I want's to change my ways!
Why oh why, oh why...
Do I always end up back h-h-h-h-h-h-h (here)
Stuck on the wrong side of town,
With my head spinning,
I keep on falling down!

(chorus background)
**But then I got arrested, whoops**
**never been arrested, for so much as an eighth of weed**
**and i get arrested for kidnap, blackmail**
**false imprisonment, and possession with intent to supply**
**urghh, typical of my fuckin' luck really innit**
**just as I'm about to sign a deal with Mike**
**I might be doin' a fuckin' bird**


I don't wanna sell weed no more,
hated the cycle but I kept pedalling,
Nan just found poon under my bed again,
I'm a let down again,
And she screaming "get this shit out the house!" again,
There's no curving the truth
The bags too big to be for personal use
There's no excuses,
She knows what the truth is!
I do flip, keys of green, to get me a few quid,

She's looking at me so dissapointed,
All I can say is "I won't do it again"
But she knows I will...

(chorus)
Why don't I learn from my mistakes?
Why oh why, oh why...
All I want's to change my ways!
Why oh why, oh why...
Do I always end up back h-h-h-h-h-h-h (here)
Stuck on the wrong side of town,
With my head spinning,
I keep on falling down!

(chorus background)
**Never learn man**
**There's no plan B for me!**
**I ain't got shit to fall back on!**
**I left school at year 8**
**I don't own, an education**
**Sellin' weed an writing lyrics is all I know**
**Fuck man**

(falling down x16)

I got arrested and raided,
then I got signed,
and I bust case,
So now everythings fine,
but now everythings not, (not)
Not did only I get dropped the whole label did,
and I wasted my advance so I ain't got shit!
I'm stuck at Warner's and them pricks won't push my album,
but it's cool as soon as I'm free I'm gonna do it without them,
8 months later I'm still stuck in my deal,
In debt with my lawyer, time to get back on this Ferris Wheel,
I'm stuck on this Carousel,
when will this ever end?
This is hell for me I'm back at the beginning again,
Someone please get me offa this circus ride,
the horse that I'm riding's hurtin' my thighs... erm,

(chorus)
Why don't I learn from my mistakes?
Why oh why, oh why...
All I want's to change my ways!
Why oh why, oh why...
Do I always end up back h-h-h-h-h-h-h (here)
Stuck on the wrong side of town,
With my head spinning,
I keep on falling down!

(chorus background)
**An before some funny guy tries to make a joke about me riding a horse**
**It IS a metaphor!**
**What I mean is I'm sick of hustlin', I'm sick of the grime**
**I am SICK of things going to shit**
**JUST when they're lookin' up**
**I don't know if this shit is ever gonna work for me**
**I swear down blud I'm so fed up yo**
**Urghh, I cannot be dealing with it, anymore**

. . .


I'll give you everything you'll ever need
And I'll find a way to turn you into a monster
Me and you, we could rule the world
'Cos no-one's gonna mess with me
I'm a monster

I'll give you everything you'll ever need
And I'll find a way to turn you into a monster
Me and you, we could rule the world
'Cos no-one's gonna fuck with me
I'm a monster

Dr Jakelly and Mr Hyde saw a chick walk in with a big behind
now I'm stalking my victim out
unrecognizable 'cos I'm in disguise
pin blue eyes and her's were green
crept up behind she turned and screamed
everybody turned to see
I tried to run tripped up and hurt my knee
I can't believe that she got away
Think of all the love that we could of made
I really did mess it up
I've ruined my only chance with a sugababe
Now I'm a bit ticked off
Back to the flat

. . .


[Verse 1:]
I don't mean to be ungrateful and I could never tell you something if it aint true.
I'm stable, and I find its easier for me being single than it is being faithful.
I got somewhere I gotta be and I cant take you, and you deserve more so why would you make do?
I aint no angel and there aint nothing you could say to me to save us cause it aint you.
I'll hold onto everything we went through, I'll always remember what you meant to me.
Now there's business I got to attend to, the money for nothing and the drinks are free
Where I'm going, there's no place for all the little things we kinda got a taste for.
But you know there's a lot I'm gonna miss, there aint a page long enough for me to write a list.

[Chorus:]
Is this as good as it gets? Is this situation gonna turn into one of life's regrets?
Is this as good as it gets, is this situation gonna turn into one of life's regrets?
This is how it goes, everything around me so full of possible,
Close the door behind me, start thinking 'bout what's in front of me Ooooh

[Verse 2:]
I don't mean to be ungrateful and I could never tell you something if it aint true.
I'm stable, and I find its easier for me being single than it is being faithful.
I aint alone 'cause I know you've got needs too, and from a distance its nothing I can see to.
I'd rather leave you, than insult you with the lies, 'cause I'm really not as sly as to deceive you.
Time for us both is so precious, selfish is never what I meant to be.
In a business where sin is relentless and nobody sees nothing in the VIP, I don't know if it's a place I was meant for, or if its everything I always ever dreamt for.
But I know there's a lot I am going to miss, there aint a page long enough for me to write a list.

[Chorus:]
Is this as good as it gets? Is this situation gonna turn into one of life's regrets?
Is this as good as it gets, is this situation gonna turn into one of life's regrets?
This is how it goes, everything around me so full of possible,
Close the door behind me, start thinking 'bout what's in front of me Ooooh

[Verse 3:]
Only time will tell if I'm doing the right thing, see honesty's all about the timing, its frightening but I'm trying to make it easier for you by closing the door behind me.

. . .


remember when it started i tried to hold back,
didn't wanna get too into it nor get too intimate,
tried to back off, but that back-off,
she's gorgeous, 5 ft 4 and 3 quarters,
half Italian half Japanese, she can make cars crash in them jeans,
but she's so much more than a body, she's perfect,
I knew it would hurt but it was worth it, 'cause when it was working
weren't nothing like it and to be honest it's as in love that I've been ever!

I never felt a love like this before, so is it I feel so insecure,
fuck it I'm taking her dive, no more linking I'm making her mine but
where do we go, where do we go, where do we go from here.
where do we go, where do we go, where do we go from here.

It's been a couple of months, we've grown so tight so quick,
I just might let you in see, I'm quite closed off,
I got alot of pain inside, thats why i get high till i dose off but,
i change in time atleast i hope to, cause it feels so right when i hold you,
i wanna get inside i wanna know you, theres so much of i, i wanna show you
and though im scared to, im prepared to, trust you as long as you share too.
Lucked up, both loved up, but little did we know we were both fucked up
the more open we were the more vulnerable, but after a while werent fun at all
it got deep and procided to change, i needed you and you needed the space
what a waste.

where do we go, where do we go, where do we go from here.
where do we go, where do we go, where do we go from here.

. . .


[Verse 1]
I kick flows, rip shows, think it switched though?
Shit no, it ain't any different when I get home
I shift po to get dough, lust p's
If you ain't ever been broke?
For you to judge me's an insult
It's my life an I'm living it
Agreed we all have choices but mine limited mostly by my decisions
If I knew then what I knew now I'd a lived live different
I'd be a different me but I didn't so this is me
Me, in my position what would you have done?
Would you of done what I did? Am I what you would become?
My guess, my guess is you would of succumb like I did
The decision was mine but I was too young
An I picked the wrong path, I went the wrong way
Left school then got the grade, banged it out, got my pape's
Stacked my p's copped a cake, I'm holding weight now
Made a brick of a ounce an ain't been in the jailhouse
I intend on staying free, free for me don't mean free from stress
Lay in bed but I ain't asleep
From I need rest I just blaze the tree's
Drift off hearing my Nan say to me

[Chorus]
Good night, God bless
I'll see you in the morning
Good night, God bless
I'll see you in the morning

[Verse 2]
I'm a dreamer, but can only dream as
Long as I'm asleep I've, been having trouble sleeping
See Nanny Edie ain't here to say goodbye no more
I had to say goodbye to her, inside is where resides the hurt
Now all I feel is pain, after that nothingness
After that? Nothing since, after that there's nothing left
Some of her last words were I can't fight forever
Like she wanted to give up an of life she was fed up
She had to go but I wanted her to stay
Cause ever since she left, things haven't been the same
I need a new shelter from the rain
My face looking weathered, a facety looking bredder I'm fed up
I know not what to do
See I'd love to say that I don't give a fuck but I do
The gift an curse that I'm blessed with
The pressures on road ain't nothing to the emotions that I wrestle with
Stress got me in a figure four, raw is what I'm thinking
I wonder what I'm living for?
Is it only to hurt? First my great nan
Now I gotta put my dad in the dirt
Back in the earth, I wished we could have patched it up first
I was so angry though, I just couldn't handle the hurt
Now your in the back of a hurse
It hurts more than it ever did
Sometimes I wish that I had never lived
Feels as if it would have been better if I never did, live
I don't know how I'm ever gonna get through this, shit
I swear down blood, I'm runnin on empty
My life ain't nothing to be envied
So goodnight...

. . .

Crying Game

[No lyrics]

. . .

All To Myself

[No lyrics]

. . .


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