Sometimes Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]
[Em]Yeah, I was [Am]born in Stoke Newington,
Stokey from old city
[Em]Where concrete is over trees and all
dreams get cut and bleed
[Am]Walking free, when I was young
I used to duck and weave
[D]Playing up [Em]in Clissold Park and laughing
in that London [Am]breeze
'93, I was a three year old
with many schemes
[Em]Junior playing football skills
of Arsenal just like they call me
[Am]Sticker books remember wrestling
the young'n takin' [D]I was phased
[Em]Used to idolize when he gave
you a break- [Am]up
I was in a nursery making story cakes,
[Em]fell in love
For the first time I remember days
[Am]When I was bullied, beat up,
then kicked and slapped away
[Em]Clutching on the monkey bars
and hoping they'd all go away
[Am]Loved them city sounds and sirens
in the dark at night
[Em]Helicopters fly above my head,
I'd never get a fright
[Am]I loved them early days,
living in that constant noise
[Em]Bustle in my ear was like music
to this little [Am]boy

[Verse 2]
Sometimes we go and forget where [Em]we
came from
And we don't know
[Am]Sometimes we go and forget
where we [Em]came from
And we don't [Am]know
Sometimes we go and forget
where we [Em]came from
And we [Am]don't know
Yeah, we [Em]don't know

[Verse 3]
[Am]July '94, we packed up
and closed the door
[Em]Every note was now just
some image I'm returning to
[Am]What we left behind, my friends,
my cousins, relatives
My [Em]birthplace,
my first taste of how to live [Am]and how to give
Hackney down's playin'
fuses the memories
[Em]Sittin' on the boat,
crying that was all that's meant to be
[Am]I was scared of startin' school
again; will some be [Em]all rude again?
Beat me up and treat me like a fool again.
[Am]The green emerald a thousand
welcomes negative,
[Em]Growin' up a ? an outsider
never settled quick
[Am]Settling was hard when
you're treated like a lump of shit
[Em]Saying you were black and tan
and come for what you fucking did
[Am]But I never did nothing,
told 'em that so many times
[Em]Got in scuffles screamed out loud sayin'
shit like maybe they [Am]were right
I hate that history,
I hate that Union [Em]Jack

[Verse 4]
I'll never speak for any man or any flag
[Am]Sometimes we go and forget
where we [Em]came from
And we don't know
[Am]Sometimes we go and forget
where we [Em]came from
And we don't [Am]know
Sometimes we go and forget
where we [Em]came from
And we [Am]don't know
Yeah, we [G]don't know[Em]

[Verse 5]
[Am]Sit tin' back, s[Em]taring through the haze
of that road on that beaten child
[Am]Sittin' back, star[Em]ing through the haze
of that road on that beaten child
It was [Am]like I'm in a beast of a lion
and me peacefully dy[Em]ing
I had no friends that I could ever rely on
I was [Am]sittin' back, watchin' through the haze of
that road on [Em]that beaten child
But keeping that evil intact
I put the beat to track
[Am]Found freedom, found out
[Em]I could be myself,
I'll find my world through my roots back
[Am]I never wanted to adapt or in fact[Em]
take an action over night
That for years they told
me "Fuck facts"
[Am][Em]

[Verse 6]
[Am]Sometimes we go and forget
where we [Em]came from
And we don't know
[Am]Sometimes we go and forget
where we [Em]came from
And we [Am]don't know[Em]
[Am]
[Em][Am]
[Em]
[Am]Sometimes we go and forget
where we [Em]came from
And we [Am]don't know

[Outro 1]
Yeah, we don't know
[Em][Am]
[Em][Am]
[D][Em]