Streets, The - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living Lyrics






I need something in my life to straighten me out
Let's rent this shed, we'll do vocals in the bog
Call toast PR tell 'em we've opened up shop
Campaign meetings at Warner, no coke and not drunk
3 years to make this work, or look a joke and be broke
Blag their lawyers like the con with a dog
And there'll be no more straight scores to drop and keep dropping
Settle my gross addictions with my net and come
Tell my mum over tea that my whole life's fucking up
We've got two fifty grand in the budget to go
Subtract five for club promo
Lose five for a good video and fifteen for a dud video, fuck that

It's the hardest way to make an easy living
The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery

Mayhem textes me about the press and TV
See if I've taken any Es
So I can get some sleep
Nap on the settee, the laptop next to me
Wince for my family at the skinner scandal of the week
TV pluggers, product managers straight up
Club promo needs to step up, help it work
Stick to our guns, don't crack to demands
Tell my mum in the car, that the car might have to go back
Two hundred and twenty five grand
Twenty six grand for a showcase
And five more on tour support and support story

It's the hardest way to make an easy living
The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery

We'll never get bankrupt if we never have a go
This is no ordinary able, I need to flash up my flow
Go into Morris stead as well as saville row
I want a pin-stripe suit that no man owns
Cash in the Kano beat for the silver shadow
Send it to warrior for the flash and the glow
The safest way to double your money is to fold it in your pocket
Tell my mum during breakfast that I got no sleep
Eight grand paid in September, April, may and December
If this keeps going so well, this is going to be the end of us

It's the hardest way to make an easy living
The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery

In spread betting it's easy to draw a small fortune start
With a big fortune and lose into a small fortune
Haven't got a clue, we blindly charge on
Death threats from a boy of the girl I sarged on
She said she didn't have a bloke, another lesson marked down
Verbal agreements aren't worth the paper they're marked on
Get scans of reviews, we beg to chart up
Tell my mum over tea, the press have started up
We've spent a fortune
'Cause with ghost buying it's the end for tune
We need to sell some records soon

It's the hardest way to make an easy living
The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery

It's the hardest way to make an easy living
The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery





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  1. D.... M....

    The best way to double ur money is to fold it in half in ur pocket! Only a genius cud think lyrics that true..

  2. J.... M....

    Picture me trying to explain to Magical Trevor how Toby Pucker had, once again, ruined *everything* by accidentally kicking over a gallon pickle jar filled with acetone when we had just gotten to this song on the mixtape.

    Tired of apologizing for Toby's belligerence & total ineptitude, I slipped the keys to the deputy director, while she mansplained to the strange defector just how we got through the metal detector.

    *news at eleven • film at eleven*

  3. D.... ....

    love the accent

  4. H.... B....

    great song and words

  5. M.... ....

    This is pure UK love it!

  6. R.... B....

    Fucking love this tune! Anyone else know what it feal's like to blow a shit load of money & have nothing to show for it other than a pocket full of regret!!! Lol

  7. L.... H....

    Fucking top!👻

  8. J.... W....

    What car is that?

    J.... W....

    Randy Randelman rolls Royce phantom

  9. Y.... J....

    How are you ?
    I love your vid, can you do me a favor and sub to my channel? I just created a new channel and upgraded the new web site at YouBackTube Software. I would really appreciate it if we could share a few playlists. I have subbed to your channel, if you want to subscribe to mine I would appreciate it, I'm just getting this channel going. I will be able to offer you some excellent new products and stuff. Hope to chat with you soon, and thanks if you sub !

    kind regards
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  10. m.... ....

    what is sampel?

    m.... ....

    minibroda Skinner sampled this from 2 songs, I believe the chords are looped and pitched up from alternate version of house of the rising sun, other song I don’t know

  11. L.... R....

    Popular culture changes so fast we can't keep up, funny when yr not tripping up over it. Cheers Gov, that was a real smart darts I dead idea. Where the flip we go now, just getting used saying Ello! Why close Fabric, 2 drugs deaths? Nobody in there sell shit, some fucker sent em in on it n y blame the dance and the music culture for that then. Did you do it, no I did fucking not, I would never poison a child or see it happen. Kiddies experiment but do protect your young. This bollocks is nor for the faint hearted, my days done. But if I see anyone poisoning innocent children, I will hire me a gun. Some Lyrics innit? X

  12. T.... ....

    If you like The Streets, check out TED DUCHAMP - TIME BOMBS, think you'll enjoy it, cheers!

  13. T.... W....

    Züüüüriiiiii!!!

  14. T.... R....

    who came from dirty harry?

    T.... R....

    ✋😂😂😂

  15. A.... A....

    This sounds so bad in America

    A.... A....

    It will grow on u...im an american and i fucking love damn near every album by skinner..but i thought he was wack af first time i heard original pirate material in like 08

    A.... A....

    Sounds pretty fucking good in England

    A.... A....

    Adam Ayala If your not upper class this is uk life! It isn't that easy to get rich & if you think your living the life your probably not!

    A.... A....

    @Rob Baker So everyone in the UK is a professional musician? Because that's what this song is about...

    A.... A....

    Broken Wave Yeh... yeah you've hit the nail on the head there mate! Well done!

  16. K.... ....

    this has got to be a sample of the "house of the rising sun - the animals" hope it is... my mum was friends with the pianist years and years ago (small as fuck world)

    K.... ....

    Ye, I think it is

    K.... ....

    I just thought i'd dig in to this as it does sound very much like it but I couldnt find any details of it being credited - but it appears the Animals version was a cover of an old folk song which has been used and covered by so many artists I would guess there is no paper trail of credit for the riff being used. Check out the Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk which both so signs of the riff being developed to what became the Animals version, and then may have inspired The Streets take on it.

  17. B.... ....

    West Midlands Brummie Accent with sharp wit and good beats, definitely unique music that resonates with everyday people. Love it

  18. A.... P....

    Jest szpryca!

    A.... P....

    Aw you are looking so beautiful

    A.... P....

    +Agata Plutowska ha, co masz na myśli? :)

    A.... P....

    +Agata Plutowska heavy tune like whole thestreetsthing

    A.... P....

    +Agata Plutowska .

    A.... P....

    mcbakb me guys #alive

  19. V.... ....

    It took me 30 seconds to realize what i was looking at was just an image

    V.... ....

    ..the fuck was you smoking lol

  20. G.... M....

    Mr. Black0ut brought me here... Awesome song. UK Quality :D

  21. E.... M....

    blackout lol

  22. m.... g....

    "DOpEXride" looks like a century TOYOTA gilligons island

  23. H.... ....

    Seriously helpfull

  24. A.... C....

    if you want to play this on guitar chordify.net/chords/the-streets-the-hardest-way-to-make-an-easy-living-tiilucboot-1349892217

  25. O.... K....

    BRIT REALNESS !

  26. S.... ....

    Dislike button is not the download button !

  27. S.... ....

    I love this album.

  28. M.... S....

    Never need to flash up your flow; it's amazing as it is

  29. A.... k....

    silver shadow i think.

  30. K.... ....

    DUDE!

    Smap ur crap somewhere else!

    maybe on beauty tips or stuff about Nicky Minage...

    Feeeeeeeeg!

  31. m.... b....

    Gday!I personally have been earning profits online now aided by the new PanCashful Secrets. It is a very simple way to generate income, and the best thing about it is that it is newbie friendly. It shows you some really good techniques. Pay bills, buy presents for family, as well as begin paying down that debt now! Just google PanCashful Secrets and figure out the place to start making income immediately.Just look for "PanCashful Secrets" to find out more.

    m.... b....

    mrityunjoy biswas what's that got to do with this song or owt to do with the streets or YouTube in general tbh no one gives two fucks

  32. J.... P....

    Big up Birmingham :D Love that Brummy accent

  33. A.... K....

    Hi, have you thought about this program called the Intellitus Cash System? (Google it). My father says it makes people tons of cash.

  34. G.... J....

    A lot better without Pete Doherty, Skinner is all I need

  35. J.... ....

    what kind of car is that? im digging it, English with a Dirty South look.

  36. L.... L....

    oui,il fallait osé,c est du très fort,je l avais a peine reconnu

  37. J.... L....

    Love the beat, house of the rising sun, brilliant

  38. -.... A....

    i listened another version of this track with a tipicaly english beat. I can not find it on the internet! please help me

  39. s.... ....

    still a British accent, right? Like a Boston accent and a Texan accent are both American accents?

  40. N.... ....

    It is? Sounds like cockney to me, but what do I know...I am German.

  41. b.... ....

    No mate, Brummie.

  42. S.... G....

    Rapping like a sir?

  43. H.... ....

    actually that's mockney, the imitation of cockney.

  44. s.... ....

    Such a sick beat

  45. N.... ....

    Hmmm, is that so? Well, my mistake then.

  46. J.... W....

    his from birmingham mate, that's a brummie accent

    J.... W....

    John Wadsworth He was born in London and moved back there after growing up in Birmingham.

  47. F.... ....

    MIKE SKINNER

  48. A.... _....

    London? Mike Skinner comes from birmingham.. Also, there is no such thing as a "british" accent. It is an English accent thank you very much

    A.... _....

    A_Neck_Beard_Kurt _Russell Born in London, grew up in Birmingham, then moved back to London.

  49. i.... ....

    it's not. a lot is, most is not though. people should stop saying that as if it's true. most is still about love and the hard days in life. gangsterrap hasn't been the main rap genre for a very long time. still the streets are among my personal favorites because a lot of rap still misses a spark these days.

  50. N.... ....

    Actually this is cockney, the traditional dialect of London´s working class.

  51. a.... ....

    awesome song

  52. D.... ....

    I know what my next car is going to be.

  53. L.... T....

    Anyone know what the vocal sample is on loop ?

  54. L.... ....

    Mike raps about common things, feelings, overwhelming emoitions. Every girl in his video isnt treated as sex symbol but as normal ordinary female.
    Americans do stupid videos with bitches all around, fancy drinks, money, gold, guns and killings. The fuck? :)

    The streets? Perfect delivery for common society folk. Thank you Mike ! Forever legend.

  55. v.... ....

    Damn, Im listening Gorgoroth, Darkthrone, Sathanas and other black metal bands every day. But still love to come back and listen Mike sometimes. Love this guy, for me he is an music legend

  56. d.... ....

    another great track from The Streets with a completely different perspective!

  57. m.... ....

    True story:I worked ALOT in front of a computer screen at the homeless shelter I lived in last year to sell my new record.I stared so hard at the PC-screen that my tearchannels got all messed up so I actually started crying blood after awhile. But the work payed off eventually. Point being that this whole time working on promoting my new record I listened to this song on repeat for two months straight. After u read this,don't go into my profile or anythting.Just realize the awesome.of this song.

  58. l.... ....

    @TKMSeznam12 so now you're just trying to insult canada? you seem like a kind of insecure person.

  59. S.... ....

    Fuck underrated. This album is overlooked.

  60. B.... M....

    @TKMSeznam12 Lol, that's a typical example of Yankee arrogance. If I was American, I'd be just as brainwashed as you, 'DUDE'.

  61. T.... D....

    it's house of the rising sun !!! like it

  62. U.... ....

    @TonyPro79 Agreed, I prefer this fuckin fantastic rap to that other shit any day. Love House of Pain too :D Good shit

  63. t.... W....

    I thought this song would have millions of views...there aren't many rappers today who I'd consider to be artists; The Streets is one of them.

  64. a.... c....

    @TKMSeznam12 perfect my arse, notice how i spelt arse, instead of ass which is what you are for saying your perfect.

  65. B.... M....

    @TKMSeznam12 Someone likes Yankee shit

  66. k.... ....

    @ceiranz raps about killing? can you hear me way back in 1995? dont talk about things u dont know friend. raps about swag and skinny jeans and skater shoes these days. do ur homework kid

  67. m.... ....

    @FireHazeRecordz Some Rolls-Royce

  68. M.... F....

    lovin the rollz in the pic lol

  69. F.... ....

    The Steets is awesome ;)

  70. y.... ....

    what car is that??

  71. J.... B....

    @Honorien still... its the answer to your question ^^

  72. J.... B....

    @Honorien its called 4 o´clock...
    its even uploaded on his channel "thebeats"

  73. H.... ....

    ELO PEZET

  74. M.... D....

    auhsöm !!! :P

  75. K.... ....

    co mam powiedzieć?

  76. A.... S....

    the car is a rolls royce silver shadow :D

  77. J.... T....

    This is an awesome song. I've never heard of this artist. I'm hooked.

  78. L.... P....

    @QwiLuke know the year and model by chance?

  79. L.... G....

    @eggfromhabbo rolls royce

  80. J.... M....

    daily listener

  81. t.... ....

    some new rap is still good

  82. E.... B....

    @wanWonglwkz the easyest way to get a virus on ur computer

  83. C.... ....

    the streets always rap about the real kind of life were as all this new rap is about hoes and prozzys and slags and guns and killing ? wats up with that?

  84. l.... ....

    LEGENDARY

  85. M.... C....

    this album is so underated

  86. D.... ....

    Also Germans Love it :) Just Epic! The Streets are so different and unique!!!

  87. S.... M....

    Such a relief to hear british accent, ive had it with the american shit

  88. S.... ....

    anyone know of an mp3 for this?

  89. t.... c....

    legendary song 1 of there best :D

  90. R.... M....

    @leon240279 it is far from hip hop though, mate

  91. l.... ....

    @danherbert96 But it's from the UK!!

  92. T.... D....

    So good!

  93. s.... ....

    i dont think its good enough to be its own genre. its just good music to me.

  94. R.... M....

    desc is so wrong. this isnt "english hip-hop" its its own genre

  95. K.... ....

    @1La50 actually no, I work with a few artists that were on 'The Beats'. I'm a music producer, I also produced Devlin's London City.

  96. K.... ....

    Mike Skinner hasn't gone far, The Streets is a group (including main vocalist Mike Skinner). The Streets were on Mike's & Teddy's own record label The Beats which went bankrupt after Warner Music Group closed deals with Sub-Label's for funding (which is why Mike wrote this song around the time the label ended due to lack of financial support). Mike Skinner has recently been featured on a new release by UK rap artist Giggs entitled Slow Songs. New album from The Streets is expected in 2010.

  97. P.... O....

    ya holy shit haha this is exactly like house of the rising sun