In the city of gold
(Everybody's out for their own, it's hot round here even when you're out in the cold) Professor Green – City of Gold

With 7 million people, London has proved itself an opportune place and business hub. That being said businessmen are selfish. Awkward……

Anyway, ‘hot round here’ is open to interpretation — hot with cops, competition, arms you pick

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We ain't got no time,
(No time in these streets, everybody's hungry and trying to eat) Professor Green – City of Gold

Criminals = ‘by any means necessary’ earners

They have no time to be wasted, so would you kindly…

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It's hardly a party, getting our Ps on the same corner where woman sell Narni Professor Green – City of Gold

Great sense of irony here: on this corner there’s drugs and pussy

Only money could ruin something that beautiful

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Medusas' that'll seduce ya if ya ain't ready, Professor Green – City of Gold

Women will fuck up your life (with their boob-shaped boobs)

But this is the UK we’re talking about: they won’t be some cute girl who turns Medusa-bitch in the morning. They’ll just generally look like this

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To think you came here for the treasure, but nobody ever came here for the weather Professor Green – City of Gold

London is a

global city centre

Full of opportunity for success

But like the rest of the isle it inhabits, it gets some awful weather

OVER ANALYSIS TIME: The weather part can be seen as referring to the term ‘raining bullets’, and means that no one comes to London because it’s violent.

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[Verse 3] Professor Green – City of Gold

Important to know that the first few lines (up to Alone is…) is spent singing, a la Eminem

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So for my freedom I keep hoping, cause I don't wanna walk through the doors these keys open Professor Green – City of Gold

Smart wordplay here with keys; he’s saying that he doesn’t want to be jailed and pass through prison doors because of his coke distributions

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[Hook] Professor Green – City of Gold

Just a heads-up, the lyrics in brackets are Green’s rapping hook.

Non-bracket = rock singer hook

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The road's ain't safe for you, haters can't get me, they get to you Chipmunk (Ft. Tulisa) – Lose My Life

Cos there’s alwaaaayyys a girl

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It's more than sex, we can chill when it on Chipmunk (Ft. Tulisa) – Lose My Life

The definition of making love

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