Grew up fast in a place unknown
Four walls but the place ain't home
Terrified for my life sometimes
Especially when my dear mummy ain't home
Big dreams, sat swelling in my head
Big dreams, big boy small bed
Wanna share em all but last time I did
I learnt things are better left unsaid
So you can read Karl Marx till your blue in the face
But if you've never left the house with a tool by your waist
And your shoe tightly laced, Cos the feds might give chase
Selling anything you can put some food on your plate
While the older kids are on the corner joy riding and burning cars
I was learning life the hard way, selling wholes and halves
Don't you chat to me about the rising of the working class
It's long overdue I know but we're too busy working hard
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Show them, say your culture is your root,
And don't shun the talent of the children
Warm souls occupy a cold flat
New shoes, new coat, old hat
I did it all and I won't go back
Nah I been there, yeh I done that
Big dreams, sat swelling in my head
Big dreams, big boy big bed
Wanna share em all but last time I did
I learnt things are better left unsaid
Because where I come from we lock our dreams in a box
Pedal back and forth all day and tuck our jeans in our socks
Pray the alphabet is full and all our P's don't get robbed
Where everybody bears a cross but barely believes in God
You see it's hard sometimes but we make it somehow
And if we can't make it then we'll take it give it now
Hand it over little buddy all my dreaming is on scheming
I'm an angel in the daytime but I'll kill you in the evening
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
Dream big kid, kid dream big (dream big)
They'll say you can't do it, because they never did.