Find No Enemy Lyrics

Find No Enemy by Akala

• Apparently I'm second generation black Caribbean and
• Half white Scottish whatever that means
• See lately I feel confused with the boxes
• Cause to me all they do is breed conflict
• It not that I've lost touch with the
• Reality racism, sexism and nationality
• Just to me it all seems like insanity
• Why must I rob you of your humanity
• To feel good about mine, it's all about crime
• Dehumanizing is how I justify it
• So I must keep on lying about the history of africa
• So I can live the with massacres and
• Repeat my mantra of Muslim and terrorist so
• I can sleep at night as bombs take flight
• Eyes wide but I'm blind to the sight too busy chasing
• The perfect life and the working class keep them uneducated
• Truly educated men could never be racist, to educate is to draw out
• What is within are we not all not the same under the skin
• I got a heart like yours that pumps blood and oxygen
• And insecurities are a whole lot of them I'm scared like you deep down
• I really do care that world is not fair like you
• But I don't even believe my own prayers like you
• Chasing career going nowhere like you
• Lost in a fog of my own insecurities I hold myself up as a image of purity
• And I judge everybody else by the color of their
• Skin or the size of their wealth
• But it's not good for my health as the only
• One I ever really judge is my self The oppressor
• Must suffer like the oppressed though I pretend I'm in control of this mess
• By inflating my ego, puffing my chest I see my weakness
• And need to show strength Or what we think strong is
• Because if we're honest? True strength is the strength to be honest
• And if I'm honest I am just tired if I'm honest I am just tired
• Tired of everyday filling up my car and knowing that
• I'm paying for the bombs in Iraq
• Tired of pretending like it don't hurt my heart, of
• Wanting change but not knowing where to start
• Tired of listening to all the conditioning and all the
• Forms they have me filling in
• Next time you see what is a thug and despise him
• Please know I was just like him
• Cause I was like eight the first time I saw crack
• Same time I first smoked weed choking on blowbacks
• First time I saw knifes penetrate flesh it was meat
• Cleavers to the back of the head As I grew and teenage years passed
• Many more knifes pierced and the shots blast
• And I not saying I had the worst upbringing but there a
• Million young men just like me in prison
• We complain about racism and elevate clowns with their trousers
• Down swinging their dicks round
• Maybe that is not quite literal but everything
• They do is just as stereotypical
• To my real fans I feel your pain and I get the messages
• But don't complain that we ain't got more fame for paying our part
• They can keep the charts all I want is your hearts
• They can keep the charts all I want is your hearts
• They can keep the charts all I want is your hearts
• Call it black radio don't make laugh
• So is black music all about tits and arse?
• You don't represent nothing your just pretending
• When was the last time you ever played Hendrix or Miles Davis or
• John Coltrane or Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday?
• We can call it urban to me that's cool if urban means street
• That includes jazz too and rock for that matter
• Go ask Mick Jagger or Jimmy Page what they were listening to the blues
• Not discrediting love Zeppelin too, just giving credit where credit is due
• That blood socked word rappers still use
• All it really shows is that we still self abuse
• That was the word that was used to kill Kelso Cochrane
• And Emmett Till That was the word that the conscience eased
• And made people pleased to hung you from trees
• That was the word that let the whips crack no matter
• What you say you can't take it back
• And I can say their black so I feel their pain easier
• But 1915 look at Armenia If the whole world is human stupidity
• Though we choke ourselves to death quite literally
• And I can talk with my comfortable mouth, with
• My comfortable clothes and my comfortable house
• The tables will turn, we can but stall them every empire
• On this earth has fallen So unless we can find another way
• Maybe not today but it will come one day
• It may sound like I'm bitter but in fact truth
• Be told I am quite the opposite I wake everyday and am overwhelmed
• Just to be alive and be like no one else And the sheer weight of
• The thought of space is enough to keep my little ego in place
• All that we chase and try to replace all along it was right in our face
• The only way we can ever change anything
• Is to look in the mirror and find no enemy
• The only way we can ever change anything,
• look in the mirror and find no enemy

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