Read All About It lyrics

Hook: Emeli SandéI wanna sing
I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it
Ohhhhh

Verse 1: Professor GreenNothing to hide
Stifle or smother
Suffered and cried
Strife made me tougher
Never mumbled or shy
To trouble I rise
Above all
Expectations forget rep
Ain't never begged yet
When I wanted to get pence hustle
To be I am exactly what my neck says
She said I tried to cash in on my dads death
I wanted to vent
But I never said fuck all
After all
You were never kin to me
Family is something that you never been to me
In fact
Making it harder for me to see my father
Was the only thing that you ever did for me

Hook: Emeli SandéI wanna sing
I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it
Ohhhhh

Verse 2: Professor Green
(Dear Dad)

As a kid
I looked up to you
Only thing was
I never saw enough of you
The last thing I said to you was I hated you
I loved you
And now it's too late to say to you
Just didn't know what to do
And how to deal with it
Even now
Deep down I still live it
To think
I used to blame me
I wonder what I did to you to make you hate me
I wasn't even 5
Life's a journey
And mine wasn't an easy ride
You never even got to see me rhyme
I just wish you woulda reached out
I wish you woulda been round
When I been down
I wish that you could see me now
Wherever you are
I really hope you found peace
But know that if I ever have kids
Unlike you
I'll never let them be without me

Hook: Emeli SandéI wanna sing
I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it
Ohhhhh

(I write songs
I can't listen to
Everything I have to give to you
And everyone of these lines I sing to you)

Bridge: Professor GreenMy job's more like public service
My life just became yours to read and interpret
If you heard it
And come across a lot different at times
I throw fits when I read how they word things

You see me smile
Now you're gonna have to see me hurting
Cause pretending everything is all right
When it ain't really isn't working

Hook: Emeli SandéI wanna sing
I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it
Ohhhhh

I ain't *censoring* selling myself to nobody
I'm the only thing I can be

All that is good
All that is bad
All that is me

I wanna sing
I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it
Ohhhhh