Hangman – English Lyrics

• By: Dave
• Album: Psychodrama

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

It's

...

Santan

...

ST, look

I see a lot of man let their jealousy creep in

Watch who you eat with, the girls that you sleep with

Watch who you talk with, walk with, speak with

The first to the motives, the last to the meetings

Huh, all I know is how to work bruv

Start off as a worker and that's just how it works bruh

When I was tryna work, niggas never tried to turn up

But when it's time to turn up, everybody turns up

And I don't know what I was thinking with the tweets about the searches

But when Harry got murdered, man was so emotional

Tryna find solutions

I had some good intentions, but I guess I couldn't word them

The life's so funny

I got a message saying that the streets don't love me

The streets don't love you

If you died today they wouldn't donate to your fucking GoFundMe

A lot of man hate me, but man can't touch me

That's why I gotta chuckle, I'm a Poet, no Chuckie

My mummy tryna wake me up for college in the morning

Is the only time a human on this earth has ever rushed me

Pshh, boy it's true

I tell them yutes that skunk weed is gonna poison you

All you wanna do is go and score a point or two

It's ironic, everybody's got a point to prove

When we were young we never listened to them older man

How you beefing man if you don't even know the man?

Before you poke a man, you man wanna expose a man

All for some Instagram clout on exposing gangs

So what's gangster then? 'Cause I don't really know if I'm honest

When we were young we had dreams of being bosses

Ballers, doctors, lawyers in an office

So how did that turn into dropping out of college

Snaps in a prison cell, bodies in a coffin

London is cursed, this city's got a problem

My bro ain't got a bird he got an ostrich, a fucking life sentence

So don't talk about experience

I say what I want and that's period

My team serious

I still got a squad full of lifers

From Dovegate to ISIS, freedom is priceless

And I see a lot of man tryna draw me out

I feel the tension in the air when I walk around

But would you rather be the person talking

Or the person doing all the things that people talk about?

Scratch that, I ain't with the backchat

My mum calls me David, girls call me Santan

And fam, I don't give a fuck if you're a badman

You madman, the only guy I'm dodging is the tax man

They say that fame is a game, and it's true

'Cause if you say the wrong word then everybody wants to hang man

Ask Surge about the times that I had man

I brought the fam together like when Tommy got the black hand

And if you got a good girl, you need to keep her close

And let her in, because the difference is

When things hit the fan, they're gonna disappear

All them sidechicks, and all them mistresses

All your broskis and your affiliates

And all the man that you were standing in the pictures with

They ain't visiting 'cause they ain't got a thing to give

I'm a hypocrite

But that line between stopping it and living it

I'm sitting in the thick of it

You would think I told my boys to come party in South

'Cause this year I said we need to touch Bigga Fish

Too many yutes are dying, and I'm sick of it

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
jealousy /ˈdʒɛləsi/ B1	noun - the state of feeling unhappy or angry because someone has something or someone that you want
motives /ˈmoʊtɪv/ B2	noun - a reason for doing something
emotional /ɪˈmoʊʃənl/ B1	adjective - relating to emotions or feelings
solutions /səˈluʃənz/ B1	noun - an answer to a problem
ironic /aɪˈrɒnɪk/ B2	adjective - using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of their literal meaning
expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/ B2	verb - to make something visible or known
clout /klaʊt/ C1	noun - influence or power, especially in a political or social context
gangster /ˈɡæŋstər/ B2	noun - a member of a gang, especially a violent criminal gang
hypocrite /ˈhɪpəkrɪt/ C1	noun - a person who pretends to have qualities or beliefs that they do not have
priceless /ˈpraɪslɪs/ B2	adjective - so valuable that it cannot be measured in money
tension /ˈtɛnʃən/ B2	noun - the state of being stretched tight, or strain
affiliates /əˈfɪlieɪts/ C1	noun - companies or people associated with a larger organization
dodging /ˈdɒdʒɪŋ/ B1	verb - to move quickly to avoid something
disappear /ˌdɪsəˈpɪr/ A2	verb - to stop being visible or to cease to exist
lifers /ˈlaɪfərz/ C1	noun - prisoners serving a life sentence

Key Grammar Structures

• Watch who you eat with, the girls that you sleep with

  ➔ Relative Pronoun ('that')

  ➔ The word 'that' is used to introduce a relative clause describing 'the girls'. It specifies which girls the speaker is referring to.

• When I was tryna work, niggas never tried to turn up

  ➔ Contraction ('tryna')

  ➔ 'Tryna' is a contraction of 'trying to'. It is an informal way to express an attempt or effort.

• But when it's time to turn up, everybody turns up

  ➔ Present Simple in Conditional Context

  ➔ The present simple ('turns up') is used here to describe a habitual action in a conditional context, implying it always happens when the condition is met.

• I had some good intentions, but I guess I couldn't word them

  ➔ Past Modal ('couldn't')

  ➔ 'Couldn't' is the past form of 'can', used to express inability in the past.

• The streets don't love you, If you died today they wouldn't donate to your fucking GoFundMe

  ➔ Conditional Sentence (Type 1)

  ➔ This is a Type 1 conditional sentence, using 'if' to describe a likely situation and its result ('they wouldn't donate').

• I'm a Poet, no Chuckie

  ➔ Coordination with 'no'

  ➔ The word 'no' is used here to contrast 'Poet' with 'Chuckie', emphasizing the speaker's identity.

• From Dovegate to ISIS, freedom is priceless

  ➔ Prepositional Phrase

  ➔ The phrase 'From Dovegate to ISIS' is a prepositional phrase indicating a range or scope, emphasizing the extent of the statement.

• But would you rather be the person talking, Or the person doing all the things that people talk about?

  ➔ Indirect Question

  ➔ This is an indirect question introduced by 'would you rather', used to ask about preferences without a question mark.

• Too many yutes are dying, and I'm sick of it

  ➔ Present Continuous for Emphasis

  ➔ The present continuous ('I'm sick of it') is used here to emphasize the speaker's ongoing feeling of frustration.