Here are the lyrics written by a young person during the Wednesday session at the CYC on the theme of gun crime in the area: (the original spelling and punctuation preserved)
This gun crime is killing bear man killing
man at the age of 9 oi maiden that aint
Really fine Let me tell you how beef
Really starts- man goes let's pide up the
9's other manz go letz get our guxs
when beef goes down their start taking
lifes.
And another:
Life on da roads
Life on da roads no bratz on da roads If u wanna test peepzU have to go through me We may be tiny But we can fight wait and c
We may draw fists for u
If u don’t believe we
Streets get harder in live
U have to fight to survive There may be loads of crews oc pdc blood setNext minute u know Ur getting banged upUr there bleedin there all beffin in der polic station snitchin their getting fex
And u dnt know wats happenin next
Jus wanna break down and cry
Better yet jus die
But den again my mama wil cry
Diz iz the last day in my life jus cause 1 dam knife
Now u tink Ur badmad but Ur not
Bang u silly if u tink Ur hot
I feel dizzy Na greasy
Nah I feel giltey cant do this anymore got to die
Sorry mama for the things I dne love u bye
Frudge da man I know u died sorry to say ppl cried and cried ppl luved
U even lesha all my girls including sisters
The day u died ppl did cry
We didn’t want to stop
So dnt feel hated cause Ur luved
From England al the way to Africa
Wen we saw u on TV it all started again
And this time we needed tea and bread
But we knew we had to stop but u always came on the very very top
We luved u so much we preyed for u to come back
But we knew this wasn’t a fact
Its jus us dreaming cause right now r hears bleedin
Dnt know wat to do
This is between me and I shouldn’t of stabbed u
Now I feel bad all the way through
Can’t do this anymore
By René and Tyreece
Stay safe have a longer life witch is better than dying