Dear England (feat. Mai Khalil)

歌詞

[CHORUS] Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed Dear England Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed [VERSE 1] They say God save the queen, Britannia rules the waves Britannia's in my genes, but Britannia called us slaves Britannia made the borders cos Britannia's forces came Britannia lit the match but Britannia fears the flame Where blood stains the pavement, tears stain the cheek When privilege is threatened, the fear reigns supreme Where bankers are earning from burning and looting The nervous are shooting, we search for solutions I shed a tear for the father in Birmingham A quick swerve for the car and it murdered them In Tottenham the apartments were burnin And nobody came, just arson and circulin' All wanna be down, Til TV's get robbed like jewels and the queen's crown They see now no thoughts for a rebound See now they call me a fool cus I speak out Peoples are humans not mindless animals This violent, tyrannical system is fallable Hand in the looter the minute you see him But the biggest looters are the British Museum This happened here and you think it's an accident Just relax or we slip into fascism And the fear gets drilled into your hearts But remember these children are all ours [CHORUS] Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed Dear England Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed [VERSE 2] If a policeman can kill a black man where he found him A solider can kill an Afghan in the mountains A petty thief can get ransacked from his housing While the bankers are lounging, that's my surroundings They took land no one in your family has heard of Before you sleep whisper the mantra you learnt cause Never will there be a day the cameras are turned off Who runs this country Cameron or Murdoch Who's the government? a government that cant govern Cant you figure this way they get Mark Duggan Bigger than Smiley, bigger than John Rouse Hundreds are dead, not one killer was on trial Just a familiar sound of hysteria Bombs over Libya but not this area Downing Street, I can find villains Cut education, privatize prisons Surprised by theft when It's organized But mass of morality is normalized Assumptions surrounding the looting of London But this is a system consumed by consumption It happened here and you think It's an accident Just relax or we slip into fascism And the fear gets drilled into your hearts But remember these children are all ours [CHORUS] Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed Dear England Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed Dear England Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed