Roots

If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
Am I ashamed of my past? No, no
If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
I got an army of skeletons in my closet, all bones

A little yout in a tracksuit, shorting weed
Other two on a fat zoot, that was me
Don't want to be a fickle beast
Stupidly they'd probably buzz the door before the burglary
But you follow before you learn how to lead
Boys learn how to fight before they learn how to breathe
You're invincible until you bleed
You can see the words but that don't mean you can read
But they're there, they always have been
Since the first caveman in the first cave started scribbling
You're true to you, you done drugs, yeah? Boo-hoo
Sadly that's a youth's mentality and
It'll hold us down just like gravity

If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
Am I ashamed of my past? No, no
If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
I got an army of skeletons in my closet, all bones

Tiny acorns make big trees
Bodybuilders make OAPs
Muhammad Ali's parking son's disease
The big sea came and took out Lenny McLean
What's on your bucket list?
Have sex? Check
Smoke? Check
Get pissed? Check
Okay, what's left?
Sort yourself out and go and clean up this mess
They wanna know why I tattoo my skin
So when I'm on the slab, they know where I've been
Every scar is a memory
And if you don't get that then don't comment, please
They laugh at my hair and my tight jeans
See? It's hard being this damn sexy
The mark on my chest, a past MC
I'm proud of these roots 'cause these roots made me

If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
Am I ashamed of my past? No, no
If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
I got an army of skeletons in my closet, all bones

The seed opens, the roots appear
The plant wants to get out of the dirt to the air
Into the goodness from where it begun
Soon it accepts the sunlight that allows it to bloom
Just because you came from the dark
Doesn't mean you don't deserve light
Remember who you were at the start
You know what's wrong and what's right
If you ain't got
Roots
If you ain't got roots
Roots
Roots
Grow

If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
Am I ashamed of my past? No, no
If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
I got an army of skeletons in my closet, all bones
If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
I got an army of skeletons in my closet, all bones
If you ain't got roots, how you gonna grow?
I got an army of skeletons in my closet
All bones, bones, bones, bones