Tonalità: C minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Look
Imagine an island where the party
never ends
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Where it's less about money
and it's more about friends
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Where the vibes can't done
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It's less about fundin'
and and more about fun
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Tropical sun,
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that's life in the '60s comin' from the Caribbean
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You know Ian, Delroy, Vivian,
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Winston
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Who got drafted to England
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Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton
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To say they're the life of the party,
you're wrong
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My Jamaicans the entire party,
you can't see?
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Big Notting Hill carni, you
can't see?
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And the ride's fiber glass,
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G, you wan' see?
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Imagine a place where you
raise your kids
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The only place you live says
you ain't a Brit
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They're deportin' our people
and it makes me sick
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'Cause they were broken by
the country that they came to fix
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It's like
Verse 2
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They came at the invitation of the
British Government
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The passports were stamped
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indefinitely to remain
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But for some who were children then,
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that was a false promise
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"Thirty- seven years of
paying taxes
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And I got a letter saying
I was an illegal immigrant
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I came to England at the age of ten
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and I've lived here all my life"
Verse 3
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Look, imagine a world that's flawed
and full of evil
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Where dictators and leaders
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are persecutin' your people
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The bodies of the innocent
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are pilin' to the steeples
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The ironic part is they're preyin'
on the feeble
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That's life in the 90's, you're
Eastern European
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And you seein' people dyin' 'cause
they're fightin' for their freedom
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And show you violence
for havin' a voice
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You move out with your kids in hope
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of havin' a choice
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Life throws you a spanner,
you can't handle the pain
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So you gamble and you drink and then
you gamble again
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You argue with your wife and then
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you sleep on the couch
You hit your children,
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then start freezin' 'em out
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You try and work things out,
but it's never the same
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All the women in your household
are livin' afraid
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When you look into the mirror
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you're reminded again
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That you've become the dictator
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you were fightin' against
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It's like
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We're fightin' for our rights, for
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all our mothers
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And then we, we
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We are fighting for our homes
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We are fighting for our
own
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Verse 5
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Look, imagine a world
that's fucked and untrue
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Where the many pay a price for the few
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And every day the sun rises
a little later
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That's how it is when your
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oppressor is your liberator
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That's right now livin' in
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the Middle East
Praise Allah for the peace
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Death from a sky littered with stars
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You run away with your kids
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so you can give them a chance
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But your asylum has got you in
a different war
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Because the British wanna know
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what you're livin' here for
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We rely on migration more than
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ever before
They're key workers,
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but they couldn't even get in the door
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When you're at Heaven's Gates,
what you tellin' the Lord?
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You wouldn't even let a kid
into some steadier shores
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That's a life they may never afford
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Surely you would wanna give
your people chances
That were better than yours?
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No?
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"In ten years of conflict
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More than twelve- thousand children
have been killed or injured"
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"The children here are just a
tiny fraction
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Of the estimated six- million
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In need of emergency humanitarian
assistance
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It's thought perhaps,
as many of three- million
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No longer live in their own homes
And up to two- million children no longer
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at tend school
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The opportunities of this generation
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Have been changed forever by this conflict"
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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"I went to silence when I need to who the,
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who the fuck I was, bro
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Like, I won't hear anyone else,
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shut everyone else out
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So I could just hear myself, bro
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You know what I'm sayin'?
'Cause we live in this world, yeah
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You stand still, the way the tides set up
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It will take you away from yourself,
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you feel me?
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So then I was like "Aight, cool"
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But, I had to get silent,
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but it's not like mans goin' against the tide
'Cause goin' against the
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tide still makes it about them
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Still makes it about the poison
That you've internalized in your mind,
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you feel me?
It's like "Bro, why am I in this water?
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Man, this water doesn't even like me,
it's not even for me
It's not takin' me where I wanna go, it's
not takin' me where I wanna go
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It's who the fuck I am, bro,
you know I'm sayin'?
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It's like the tide will tell me that
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bein' black is an obstacle
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See what I'm sayin'?
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I had to, switch rivers, bro
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It's like bein' black is an asset
I am who I am because I'm black
And I love everything about
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it, you feel me?
And that's who the fuck I am"
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