Dear England Lyrics

Dear England by Lowkey

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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