[Intro: Wretch 32] Woo Now, now I'm a man with strong beliefs And that's something that no one can ever take from me Or you Now, you may only be the employee But that don't mean that your boss can take your integrity Or your pa**ion And remember They can never take your soul [Verse 1: Wretch 32] Listen, I reckon they'll have to take my life Before they ever get to take my pride, I won't go down They ain't seen how the great's designed I don't break, I just change with time, I've got my own sound My own style is fashion, my own drive is pa**ion I'm in the seat with the driver strapped in On the beat like the hi-hats clapping In the street like the sirens flashing Where the police are tryna direct action Cuh they can't flip the script The cliffhanger's got a hell of a grip Cuh when we get banged up, they know we ain't telling 'em ish Cuh they can waste our time, that don't mean they can take our pride, no They can't take our style We're so fly, they can't take us down, I'm so right And power to the queens cuh you make us proud Cuh you won't never let them take your crown, you know why? Cuh it takes a king just to lay you down And if you take him in, then he has to take you out And that's the way to live, I just have to say this now We've been making it, now we have to say this loud [Hook: Badness] They could never take this from me They could never take this from me No, no, they could never take this from me They could never take this from me They could never take this from me They could never take this from me No, no, they could never take this from me They could never take this from me [Verse 2: Wretch 32] Uh, cuh British Gas are just taking liberties The bailiffs are on, tryna take my dignity But they can't even take my Freeview, I taped the preview More chance tryna take my similes My metaphors make me spiritually the best I'm lyrically obsessed, I'm literally a wretch, yes The labels are tryna rape the industry But they could never take me physically, no h*mo The bank don't wanna take no interest Until they wanna take the interest, that's so low And I ain't even scraping big cheques A couple grand, now they wanna make me invest My son's my life, his mum's tryna make him mad at me She's tryna take my sanity But I ain't gonna lie, I've been breaking gradually The vibe, like, faded rapidly, it's over And I don't even know what it's over But deep down, I know I'm a soldier Becuh alcoholic drinks only make me sober So they could never take me over [Hook: Badness] They could never take this from me They could never take this from me No, no, they could never take this from me They could never take this from me They could never take this from me They could never take this from me No, no, they could never take this from me They could never take this from me [Bridge: Badness] Cuh we never let them take every penny that we make Or we're never gonna break these chains And we come from the estate where there's never any change So you know we have to scrape these plates Cuh we never gonna break these chains And we never gonna pay these rates Cuh we never gonna pay, and we never gonna pay And we never gonna pay this rate [Hook: Badness] They could never take this from me They could never take this from me No, no, they could never take this from me They could never take this from me They could never take this from me They could never take this from me No, no, they could never take this from me They could never take this from me [Outro: Badness] Take this They could never take this No, no, they could never take this No, no, they can't take this They could never take this They could never take this Could never take this, no They could never take this Take this They could never take this