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The swimming pool is now open,
Could patrons please strictly adhere to the rules of maximum splashing, diving, bombing, singing, shouting, dancing, screaming, petting, surfing, consuming alcohol and smoking cannabis products.
Please shower before entering the pool and if you cannot swim please alert a lifeguard.
To share your life's work is your only reward. You live by the pen and you die by the
sword. I'm struggling to breathe as I fall to the floor, and I just can't take no more.
I can't get no money for the music I play. I can't get no respect for the things that I
say. I'm building cobwebs just to blow them away, and I just can't take no more.
When I was a yout this was never the plan, thought that things would turn out better
once I grew into a man. Now I'm crawling in the dirt because I'm too afraid to stand,
and I just can't take no more.
They say the struggle for power will turn your heart sour, every hour of your day.
If you just can't be then inevitably you will crumble, and blow away.
Alone.. Oh yeah.
Oh Lord! Oh yeah.
Cause there ain't no time for danger, and there ain't no time for love.
When we met we both were strangers. But I guess once push comes to shove..
I don't wanna go back to a world without you.
We spend these days living life on the road. We take what we can get and try to do
as we're told. There's a glimmer in the distance but it's never paved in gold, and we
just can't take no more.
There's no guarantees for this music we play. We don't want to dissect every thing
that we say! No we don't believe in Jah but we're still writing Dub Reggae, and we
just can't take no more!
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As the crowds grow restless
And express their distrust
I’m wide awake
I’m wide awake as their schemes and plots
Are hatched and reared in the nest of the vipers
If you think they think you matter
You are mistaken
To them you are just here for the taxation
Been thinking about what happens
To those who serve us wrong
The officer who chose to rob a mother of her son
And a tower stands in ashes
No one’s held accountable
Justice is something that is not universal
To tell the next scene
These robots all know I’m a mutant
Yeah sentinels can smell the X-Gene
Use your powers come join the team (X-Men)
Cos all those who wanna reign supreme
Never really seem to wanna take the blame supreme
Or feel the pain too deep
We get left in the rain you see
New day but it all feels the same to me
And now you wanna make your country hate again?
Please teach these cunts to be afraid again
I said away with them
And as the crowds grow restless I’m wide awake with them
And if you ain’t insane or dead
You better engage your brain and get
Wise to their tactics
Ignite your mind like a matchstick
And start a blaze on ‘em
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“What’s going on, we’re The Skints from London Town…
I think we should get the party started and the only way for that to happen is for every single person in the room to dance to some ska music right now, whadya reck?”
I ain't gonna beg it ring your phone all the time
Cos the "begger bredda" I can tell ain't your type
Paid for a couple cab fare, I bought her couple wine
But if she thinks that imma spend hard she got the wrong guy
Cos money never grew on my family tree
I just want you girl, not a family, jheeze!
I want in with the charge, should I plan the retreat?
Trust me it's you I want, of that much I am sure
cos you ain't like them other ones...
So can I lay you down girl?
Lay you down, on my bed girl, upon my bed
Tell you in my time felt some punch to the boat
Tell you in my time felt the knife to my throat
But I feel the pain in my brain the most
She wake up in my bed but she won't stay for tea & toast
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You cut me off like some sort of joke
When all I wanted was to love you better,
Can’t be sure that you’ll ever come back again,
Girl you were a new kind of friend.
Now what you giving up on me for,
I only wanted us to be more,
You said that you could not quite be sure
That I’m the one that you could ensure,
To keep you warm on lonely nights girl,
To hold you close but that’s alright girl,
I’m not the kind of boy to play the fool,
So don’t you call me when you’re in the mood.
Maybe someday you’ll find
Someone who leaves you behind,
They got no cause they got no reason,
Their heart is changing with the seasons,
I hope someday you feel that pain girl
Because today I feel the same girl,
A lonely soul a broken heart and
You’re in the arms of another man.
Don’t you think it’s such a terrible thing
that my heart you could just throw away,
If you give it a chance then your life could be enhanced
with romance.
You cut me off like some sort of joke
When all I wanted was to love you better,
Can’t be sure that you’ll ever come back again,
Girl you were a new kind of friend.
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“Let’s turn this place into Brixton zoo right now and the animals have escaped”
Well I love rubadub as you know
I
sing a little reggae ditty on the go
The melody ah tellin' me that I should show
My love for the reggae dub style done know!
Come follow me now to the start of the race,
everybody on their marks time to pick up the pace,
starting pistol at the ready as we ready for the chase,
my heart thump thump, sweat ah run down my face - and the gun go shot!
Every man be hot on my trail,
Gotta keeps my wits about me 'cause I need to prevail, and how,
the race has only begun just now and I leave them in a fat dust cloud - I can't
fail,
I gotta show them that I've got what it takes,
I gotta show them that I won't put on the brakes,
I gotta show them that I'll make my mistakes 'cause they're mine and I can't run
away.
Well some of them people try and slow me down
but i'm running at an excellent speed
lemme tell ya some of them people
try and broke me out but they won't catch a fucking penny from me
cos i see them nuff vampire
pure bloodsucker
stake to the heart now it's started
snake in the grass
mate you're bater than Carnage
take this to the grave
amen, you're departed
and if it ain't about money, why's your hand inna my pocket?
sure ain't a joke but i'm standing here laughing
tank when i'm warring
mandem applauding
talk about true colours? prick i'll run you red while i'm barring
Well I'll never let another man slow me down, reconsider life but it's not the
same.
And if you're listening you know my vocals come from my mouth, and then you
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know it came to life in my brain.
No, I'll never let another man write my songs, put me in a likkle thong when I
know I'm making their Wonga! Spending all the money that I make them on
another young thing with a bumper, little bit of talent when she sings, but no
comfort.
Wine up on my airwaves looking like Oompa Loompa, see her mouth ah moving
but she mime to her songs, yah. Got an awful lot of love fi Rubadub gone
suddenly my pain.
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“Brixton you feeling good out there?
Who saw our mates all the way from Toronto Canada, Bedouin Soundclash, open up the show tonight? Make noise! All original Skints party crew if you lot know about this tune, I wanna see your knees up on the fucking ceiling.”
I know with a bit of control you could be a little better, better yet a better
friend to me (me say that)
I know you could get your life in order, hear it knocking on your door with a Ratatat-
tat.
I know with a bit of control you could be a little better, better yet a better friend to me,
me say that
I know you could get your life in order, hear it knocking on your door with a Ratatat-
tat. (tat tat tat tat)
Cause I mark it as a must have, ride it like a mustang, ignore it like your phone rang,
say it like I have saying took away my life man, took away my life line, couldn't be my
only. When you see me you treat me like a piece of meat, like a DVD cause i'm a
VCR, see and I will be ghastly cause i lost my last me, ran around for your sake so
I'm gonna get nasty
I know that you are no good for me. One more time and then you'll set
me free.
I'm rocking back and forth of course I'll blame it on myself.
(I been going stir crazy from haze
And awake for two days
Better than to be sleeping in hell)
Falling apart like a fragment, climbing back into my shell.
And it's bait that's she's making me change
Love became hate and rage
I'm locked up, but I aint in a cell
Aint cocked up but I'm blaming myself
Long stuff feeling pain from a girl
Monged out and away from the world for a minute
Friends say it's the way of the world that I live in
And I don't wanna give it
But honestly I'm finished
And the quality's diminished and I'm feeling kinda sick-ish
Hook, line and sinker like fishes
Never took time and did my three wishes
Make a hook/line and keep myself singing
Could say that I've scored and ain't winning
But mate that's women, innit
I know that you are no good for me.
One more time and
then you'll set me free.
Got a little bit of 8-bit raggabit. My reggae vibe alive,
having all of it. Visit all eternity it stops while I play, when I'm
physically yearning for the bass while i'm holding it.
Got a little bit of Grime, no crime. Cosmically fly, well you're gonna
be mine Frank West better make it cause he's running up high, me
ah dead the undead, one rhyme at a time.
One more time, so divine, one of mine, bickering ain't gonna make
you get in line this time. Me second maybe lady will evolve? I'm
trying! But you're keeping me right here with your protective stylin.
Can you hear the bell ah ring? I hear the bell ah chime, man ah say
me ah the one but I know you tell a lie you know you made me
wanna die? I had a cry, no style, read the signs me haffi say
goodbye.
I know that you are no good for me.
One more time and
then you'll set me free.
You get down... my soul ah weak and you've been messing around.
But this sound, rocking around the system. My likkle soul, me
dancing around!
Now hold up.
No no no
You don't love me
And I know now
No no no
You don't love me
Yes I know now
'Cause you left me, baby
And I got no place to go now
No no no
I'll do anything you say boy
No no no
I'll do anything you say boy
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“Thank you. The reason that we’re all gathered here today and why we’ve been on tour for 23 days across Europe is cos earlier this year we released an album called Swimming Lessons. Maybe you heard it maybe you didn’t but here’s something a little spicy, I want no behaviour…”
She broke my heart then she broke my head,
She broke my back when she broke the bed,
I’m hanging by a noose, by a thread, I’m dead, tell me what did I learn today?
She stole my soul and she took my mind,
She killed my vibe when she said goodbye, I’m
Heading for a fall for I climbed too high, tell me what did I learn today?
Nothing at all.
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“Here’s the plan… All of you, all fifteen hundred of you, joining hands together with us, your best friends forever, The Skints… And we’re going deep into the forest.”
To say that we are all the same is a delusion,
but from that please draw not negative conclusion,
for I mean not to say that we should not be every single race as one in equality,
for without one another the world would turn flat,
it matters not how many names are on your family map,
for the tree of life is enormous and relates to all of we,
so open up your eyes and see,
The forest for the tree.
So don’t chop we down Mr Lumberer,
and if you should succeed,
piece we back together Mr Carpenter,
in a labour of love for humanity.
I rate it, reckon I’d like it like I rock opportunity
And I roll on regardless, run and build a forest for the tree
I rested inna mi space until it started to relate to me
Respect inna the world, oh well i’m ready see
For without one another, won’t grow, we know the world inevitably crack
It’s not how many men ah reckon ours is the land
For the land in which we fell in too requires a greater need
So open up your eyes and see
Well I tell now
If you have a forest then you’ve got to have a tree
And if you have a beehive then it must contain a bee
Follow me now
If you’re boiling a teapot then you must in brew it tea
Cos no man is an island as it was sung by the one Dennis B
So big up the people that promote them individuality
Rationality and humility, vibes and factuality
And you’re wanting to act like you and me are the same but in actuality
I don’t try and derive my pride blind from my nationality
No way…
(“Same Drugs” by Chance The Rapper)
We don't do the same drugs no more
We don't do the, we don't do the same drugs, do the same drugs no more
Cause she don't do the same drugs no more
We don't do the, we don't do the same drugs, do the same drugs no more
When did you change?
Wendy you've aged
I thought you'd never grow up
I thought you'd never
Window closed, Wendy got old
I was too late, I was too late
A shadow of what I once was
(“Big Ship” by Freddie McGregor)
Say when I'm ready you must hold on steady
We're moving off at lightening speed, yeah
Take a seat and wait 'till I'm ready
I'm coming so hold on steady, yeah
Big ship sailing on the ocean
We don't need no commotion
Big ship sailing on the ocean
Big ship sailing on the ocean
Big ship sailing on the ocean
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“Where will the set take us next I wonder? More dancing now!”
Why couldn't you tell me so?
Would it really have been all that much of a blow to your ego?
I guess it's just another case of never never know,
Where did you go?
Where did you go?...
This could be the only way,
this could be the only way until i find another way.
I've been trying not to let it go too deep,
ain't no use in losing precious sleep,
I'd been wrestling with it for a while,
I could not fake my smile...
because i stumbled in and stumbled out all at the same time,
hurt by a strange crime - trying to realign my mind for that which was so undeniably a waste of time,
but still i wonder...
Why couldn't you tell me so?
Would it really have been all that much of a blow to your ego?
I guess it's just another case of never never know,
Where did you go?
Where did you go?...
This could be the only way,
this could be the only way until i find another way.
You don't have to cry,
you don't have to cry...
nobody is dragging you home.
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I wanna say I run the sound like I’m over it
Keep my four to the floor we are threatening
But it’s mental how your words can unravel it
They pick apart the pieces like a piquant pepper pickles it
I’m running with the signs, I’m rebel and
Keep in line or they cry you’re not feminine
I’m the light that towards you should be running
so Ima try to remind galdem just human
Woah, I didn’t say nothing about a woman who wanted a fair shot
Who wanted to tear up
I don’t know maybe I mean it but sometimes I feel I gotta give up
Think about that woman who wanted to stand here
Up against her peers
As if it weren’t weird
If you’re feeling bad, well i wanna warn you that “calm down”
Will be the next sound inna your delicate ears
La la la la
I heard they been talking
Now which kind of righteous path is that you think you've been walking?
Looks like snorting and extorting
I ain’t supporting or applauding
None of that energy, that’s appalling
Think I’m crawling cos I ain’t balling?
It’s the dice game of life and I’m all in
I dodge the goblins on my left
I swerve the leeches on my right hand side
Believe things can really start itching
If you don’t start checking for parasites
Am I paranoid? Nah I’m para-nice
Trust nobody, yeah that’s some rad advice
Seeing red better stop like a traffic light
Shook up ready to pop like a can of sprite
I’m so sick of belittling and aggression so passive
If I go one day without being reminded of my skin and sex it’s just massive
Taking all my energy, level of my lethargy, stepping on my every moment although I cannot be anything because “why don’t you smile honey?”
Maybe cos I matter 30% less than a bredda from the mid west
I won’t serve as a window from which your whole world perception does shine
I won’t protect you from your ignorance when your lack of knowledge and culture presides
Women of colour couldn’t stand here
Up against their peers
Cause it was so weird
And if you’re feeling bad well I wanna warn you that “calm down” will be the next sound inna your delicate ears
I guess I’m learning what I didn’t wanna learn
I guess I’m burning what I didn’t wanna burn
Watch as the night becomes the light then fades to black
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“You don’t understand how much we’ve been looking forward to playing the next one here. It really doesn’t have the effect affect when you’re in *********, know what I’m saying?”
London City I was born in
You know I love this town,
But I can't pick up when she's calling
So riddle me this, follow me to the place that raised me
Gave me the up and down that develop and shape me
Give me a run down town with a Ruffneck sound
Cause the rat inna the underground don’t phase me.
I’ve never been the one to stay in just one place mind;
For the love of the music we do not discriminate, fly
From the mountain tops to an eastern block,
Or a tropical island to catch a nice vibe.
But no matter where we go we leave London Town
Reliable, we ride up in our black steed and,
Turn up an hour early for the soundcheck jam
Sip on a little rum and run the riddim and sound.
Then we back on the road, on the way, today we’re racing
Against the clock ah catch a tunnel we are facing
No matter where we go, we are coming on home
I said Londinium give me another day, sing
Well I love the London music that come before my time
Cos the new vibes got me wishing that it was back in '85
Whether the punk or roots and culture, raga, jungle, hip-hop or grime
So I take a little trip on the Victoria line
And I check for Tippa Irie there down inna Brixton
Who bun down tracks with the man in the sound like Saxon system
Stepping round town and we see the bredrin Horse man he says...
(Horseman)
"Come, yes unno make we nice up session"
The Skints, Tippa Irie and the one Horseman
The three of we, yes we ah go join as one
So let's get together and do this boom song
Mi know them haffi play it pom them station
Or
Ya haffi see we pon the television
Everybody stamp them foot and everybody raise them hand
You never know cah this one's a champion
And what them talking about? The place London
(Tippa Irie)
Because I really love my London town
True deh up and true deh down
I been almost everywhere but I man have to come back here
So much different things to do, so much different things to see
It it multicultural now, but I just love it anyhow
Born and raised right here
Smoke a zoot, drink a beer
No we nah go have no fear
We love this land and atmosphere
It is where I am from, it is where I belong
It's the only place for me
For I man and my family
London City I was born in
You know I love this town,
Cause I’m a resident that’s why
Yeah I
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I’m a fool, I’m a fool, I’m a fool
For thinking I had your love
For you’re pushing me away and I feel so sad to say
That I never really had your heart
I’m a fool, I’m a fool, I’m a fool
For thinking I had your heart
For you’re pushing me away and I feel so damn betrayed
That I never really had your love
There in my darkest hour
You were an open flower
Nurturing all of my sorrow
But now your sweet nectar has all run dry
I sit here in despair wondering where your love has left me
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“Brixton, we ain’t finished yet, have you lot still got the energy to dance to some ska music or what?”
They say there's friends and there's business
Who do you really know?
I see the snakes in
The grass so I step on around try and keep to
My way and I'll say that it's hard not to laugh
When pretenders will seem to
All be your best friends
When they're taking a wage, getting paid
Then they'll leave you
When the money ends
They show their true colours now I'm seeing red
They say there's friends and there's business
Who do you really know?
I feel the fakes in
The handshakes and meetings, they're cheating, deceitful
They don't understand
Some people won't be bought or sold, I can see through
The game that you're playing
Where the rules are made for us to lose, I don't think so
Well I got plan
For a storm on these fair weather friends
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These things that you own
All your silver and gold
Cannot buy you a hope
In these judgement days
These things that you know
Well they just might be false
But the truth will unfold
In these judgement days
(Runkus)
Judgement
Would you swim or drown when it come then?
When the king come down fi go judge men?
When The Skints drums sound and the trumpets (loud)
Income income coming
Would you count on Him when you counting
Would you bank or swim to the mountains
Would save yourself or the hundreds?
(pounds)
Hope you don’t
Love the money more
Than you love you soul
What you owe to a couple golds
Than to go fah your goals
Know the score
So if you run in Manchester city
with a arsenal fi da sterling
Then on judgement day when you get the visit
and you ask the Lord you’ll be burning
(Rise Up)
Forest Gate was in my heart, Manor Park was in my arteries
I guess after all the parties Walthamstow's become a part of me
And bunnin' all this Woodford Green has made me Chingford Hatch a plan,
So yeah man, I will be Leytonstone'd but at least I will know where I stand
and I dunno about the Rio Grande, but I'll tell you bout the River Thames
and I've never been to Montego Bay, but I'll tell ya about the Ilford ends
And on the real fam, man I deal with friends and I'll never put a Dagenham
And yes I will go Barking mad if the people start attacking 'em
And I Wanstead on my own, but they now there is a crew of us
So watch out you don't get Clapton Road, if you man out to slew and duss
And big enough for the two of us, this town don't seem to be
been up and down the Lea Bridge strip like each and every week singing...
(CHORUS)
The Skints we are gonna kill you inna this here time.
(We are the roughneck scouts)
The Skints we are gonna kill you inna this here time.
(Dis ah the wickedest sound)
The Skints we are gonna kill you inna this here time.
(We are the roughneck scouts)
The Skints we are gonna kill you inna this here time.
(Dis ah the wickedest sound)
So I bet you think you're rougher than them, tougher than them, see you dying to cry
cause I play you like instrument, calling out the mandem, cause man can't
understand them, I tread on the level because nowhere is where I can't step.
I bet you think you're knowing how to fight for survival, living off the government and
pray from the bible. I bet you think you know about the roots but it's no rival. I'm
rocking the baroque, larking with Bach, I'm analysing!
CHORUS
I tell them "Rise up! Me ah listen good music inna evening, until the morning time.
Rise up! Me ah dance ah Reggae music inna midnight, until the sun start shine.
Rise up! Me ah listen good music inna evening, until the morning time.
Rise up! Me ah dance ah Reggae music inna midnight, until the sun start shine"
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, on the drums and vocals, Mr Jamie Kyriakides!”
Tell me why
Love is the devil and I’m in hell tonight
How could she lie to me, tell me please
Love is the killer and I’m down on my knees
Begging her please just to spare my life
When I remember her eyes
And the many sweet lies that she told me
When she’d hold me oh so close to her
And when I think of her smile
Well I just have to pause for a while and recover
From this poisonous fallout left off from my lover
Woah, these tears they hold no barriers,
no, no, no, no
For now I know
I’m infected with her disease, I am the carrier of a broken heart
So tell my why
Love is the devil and I’m in hell tonight
How could she lie to me tell me please
Love is the killer and I’m down on my knees
Begging her please just to spare my life
(Jesse Royal)
Knew that you were trouble from the start
But my lonely soul, clouded mind and fickle heart
Wouldn’t let me do what was best for me and you
Everything was screaming out "separate"
But the arrogance made it hard to relate
Found joy in the pain of this game
You cut me deeper than I’ve ever been cut before
Still I can’t find the courage to show you the door
Under your spell, caught up in your allure
You’ve got me hurting but crying out for more
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“Thank you all so much man. Thank you all for buying a ticket tonight and making it so special, we appreciate you all to the fullest. The four people you see onstage tonight have been making music together as The Skints for the last 12 years, since we were legally children, okay? So to be doing our biggest ever show on our biggest ever tour is like fucking stupid. So thank you so so much man, everyone. Shout out Tom, out manager. Paul, our long suffering FOH guy, Adam at the merch, Barnzy, Sav, everyone that’s been on the tour with us man, it’s been super special, we love all of you and we’ll see you very soon….bye.”
Culture vulture, I am not
I'm just tryin' to have a good time
Culture vulture, I am not
I'm just tryin' to feel them good vibrations
When you've come to the end of your tether
I'll be at your aid my love no matter what the weather
See I ain't the kind of person to just shoot you down
'cause on earth we all stand firmly on the ground
And when we're dealing with these complicated figures
Up on their pedestals, they all point and they snigger
But what they don't know is that our fingers are on the trigger and we're aiming to shoot them down
Yes, we're aiming to shoot them down
I may like reggae, but I know where I'm from
I live inna Babylon
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We got the same kind of energy charging through our system.
And we've got a strong flow of chemistry
Sparks they be flying, higher than jet planes. There's no denying our love will hold the reins.
Sunny sunny
Pictures of us
Money money
I don't want no fussing with it no, no
Sunny sunny
Pictures of us
Money money
I don't want no fussing with it no, no
We've got a song and a melody. You know I'll never leave you.
And we do our thing, shape it delicately.
Sparks they be flying, higher than jet planes. There's no denying our love will hold the reins.
When the words we spoke like air chokes and we can't look one another in the eye.
It's the hypocrisy that will gradually wear away the enamel of our spirit once high,
I gave my two cents but I'm just so worn out to reprise, so while it's simmering in the back of my mind. I'd like to say my piece and cease this petty cry.
Do ya really love me? Yeah
You don't really know...
Sparks they be flying, higher than jet planes. There's no denying our love will hold the reins.
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I, I'm I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
Is all right with me
Cause you make me feel so brand new
And I want to spend my life with you
Let me say that since, baby, since we've been together
Loving you forever
Is what I need
Let me, be the one you come running to
I'll never be untrue
Oh baby
Let's, let's stay together ('gether)
Lovin' you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah
Whether times are good or bad, happy or sad
Why, why some people break up
Then turn around and make up
I just can't see
You'd never do that to me (would you, baby)
Staying around you is all I see
(Here's what I want us do)
Let's, we oughta stay together ('gether)
Loving you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
Come on
Let's stay, (let's stay together) let's stay together
Loving you whether, whether times are good or bad
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“We promise to keep doing this if you guys keep coming, that’s all I can say man. We are The Skints and we love each other. And we love you, forever, and we’ll see you soon. I want all the crazy crew front and centre, let’s go.”
When I was young, I had swimming lessons
Kick your legs and keep your head above the water
You get older and you learn different lessons
Still keep it moving, keep your head above it all you grow and so
It stings my eyes so much I’m feeling chilled to the bone
No boat
Can’t row
We’re falling out can’t hold on to the sides reach out yeah
When we were young, we had swimming lessons
I pulled you down and watched your frown under the water
Now I’m older and I’ve learned different lessons
Can’t take for granted that your world won’t fall apart now
No echo
It freaks me out so much I’m feeling chilled to the bone
Love, sweet love
No Ro, won’t hold on anymore reach out yeah
It shook up my perspective of our lives cause every now and then I write a rhyme let out a sigh cause
Nothing will ever erase the image of that night, oh why would I try, when the ink’s already dry, love
There’s no echo
It freaks me out so much I’m feeling chilled to the bone
Love, sweet love
Just give me more, i need you don’t go, Ro
Don’t go
“Nice one London, we’re The Skints, laters.”
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Born from the east London ska-punk scene, The Skints have built up a formidable live reputation in recent years and have been described by Clash magazine as “the torchbearers for modern British reggae music”, marking them out as one of the most respected bands in UK music whilst still staying strict to their independent DIY roots. Playing live is the heartbeat of the band, and this live recording from their sold-out homecoming show at Electric Brixton during the ‘Swimming Lessons’ 2019 European tour captures them at the height of their powers. A melting pot of reggae, rock, ska, and punk, this live recording features blistering live takes of tracks from the Swimming Lessons album, raucous fan favourites from their back catalogue, and some very choice covers that the band seamlessly weave into the performance. This is the first Skints live album to be officially released, and as the band explains in the quote below, releasing it now feels especially poignant…
“Crazy time to be alive! While Covid-19 has instantly showed us that live music is not the most essential service in a pandemic, it is vital for the soul. We present the first live Skints album from our sold out headline London show in October as a means to bring a Skints show to your home hifi at a time when we should be at a club or a festival near you, but won't be. This show was so special to us; if you were there you know the vibes and if you weren’t you can catch them now! Live albums may be seen as not the in thing right now or a format of the past in a time where everything is live streaming in full video on social media, but we have never been the in thing and have always been old souls at heart. Until we can party together again, turn up Live at Electric brixton LOUD and have a punky reggae party at home.”