Playing with Fire Lyrics

[Bridge: Plan B]
One day, you'll learn (Fire) when you get burned (Fire)
By then it will be too late for ya (Fire)
Be too late for ya (Fire)
When the fire spreads and burns (Fire), don't you know?

[Verse 1: Plan B]
He's just a kid, off the estate
They 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
Little youte beating up his only friend
The only one that weren't pretend
And even gave him the money for the peng
From mice to men and then to rats
But only a snake behaves like that

But the gang don't care if he falls through the gaps
They're just happy that you fall for the trap

[Hook: Labrinth]
Playing with fire
It doesn't burn the first time your hands walk through the flame
Playing with fire
Bitter and sweet, whoa no
Scorching skin now, hell on its way
Playing with fire
Fire, fire, fire, fire
You're playing with fire

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Genius Annotation

Playing With Fire is one of the tracks on ill Manors, an album accompanying the film of the same name with Plan B wrote, scored and directed.

The film tells the interweaving tales of eight core characters as they struggle to survive a week on the streets.

Playing With Fire tells the tale of Jake, a young boy who gets lured into a local gang after he attempts to buy some weed from them.

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Release Date
December 3, 2012
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