One day you’ll learn When you get hurt, By then it will be too late for ya,
Be too late for ya When the fire spreads and burns, don’t you know?
He’s just a kid of the estate We call him little Jake Today he tried to buy weed with his little mate Up in the bits, but he’s just a kid So he was open to manipulation He had to undergo initiation And when some older boys saw the situation They took the piss, now look at this Will you be his up and only friend The only one that won’t pretend And even gave me the money for depend From mice to men, and then to rats But only a snake behaves like that But the gang don’t care for fools shooting gaps They just happy they could fall for the trap
Playing with fire, it doesn’t burn First time, your hand, Walk through the plain Playing with fire, it’s too extreme Oh-oh-oh Scare tin, skin now Hell on it’s way Playing with fire Fire, fire, fire, fire Go playing with fire One day you’ll learn When yo get burned By then it’ll be too late for ya Too late for ya When the fire spreads and burns Don’t you know Playing with fire
He’s just a kid, but he feels like a man today He joined a gang today Been at a house party, you ran away Doing illegal shit, but he’s just a kid Still he’s in luck today He got a fuck today Yeah he bust his very first nut today In some stupid bitch Today’s moving quick So quick, if you wear the wrong shoes You’ll slip, Better keep up with the tempo, with a click Cause what they on is messed up rough And now that he’s rolling with these vexed up thugs What’s next up … Cause he’s gonna it his only mission To bet his position, in this little gang it’s a competition To a little man with a disposition Holding though he was born a Christian What he worships now is the night they listen Wise men will tell you with age comes wisdom And you can’t be saved by religion unless you have faith So it makes no difference to the use, to erasing the system You don’t have age on your side … row models and lies that provide insight So he ain’t gonna listen As for Jake, he’s already made his decision And now he’s just another poster boy For David Cameron’s Broken Britain
Playing with fire, it doesn’t burn First time, your hand, Walk through the plain Playing with fire, it’s too extreme Oh-oh-oh Scare tin, skin now Hell on it’s way Playing with fire Fire, fire, fire, fire Go ṗlaying with fire One day you’ll learn When yo get burned By then it’ll be too late for ya Too late for ya When the fire spreads and burns Don’t you know Playing with fire