Akala – Yours And My Children Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1
- Right here, dangerous idea
- If we did this, then we couldn't feel fear
- If there's no fear, there's no control
- If there's no control, someone's gotta let go
- They say I shouldn't say too much they might delete me
- Realize I don't really care about TV
- Keep your awards, your applause I'm easy
- All I can do in this life is just be me
- Pilger can say it, so can Naomi Klein
- Its free speech for them, that's fine
- Young black rappers should utter the same words
- Utterly absurd, nutter, insane, nerd
- Even the fact I call myself black
- Social conditioning and that's a fact
- The idea of races has no factual basis
- It was made just to serve racists
- To justify to doing to some what couldn't be done
- To others, but they all are our sons
- Black or white all of our sons
- Muslim, Christian all of our sons
- Look up in the sky that's all of our Sun
- Last time I checked we only had one
- So if some were superior, others inferior, based on exterior
- Well then surely the sun would know and fall in to line?
- It would rain on your crops and not mine?
- Air would prefer to inhabit your lungs?
- Food would prefer the taste of your tongue?
- If that's not the case then nature has declared
- Despite what we say the worlds in fact fair?
Hook
- Kids in Iraq
- Yours and my children
- Kids in Iran
- Yours and my children
- Afghanistan
- Yours and my children
- Even Sudan
- Yours and my children
- Kids in Brazil
- Yours and my children
- Police drive by the favela and just kill them
- Kids in Brazil
- Yours and my children
- Police drive by the favela and just kill them
Verse 2
- Problem is, it feels better to feel better
- And reap without sowing
- Whatever is growing
- Never ever slowing, turn days to dark nights
- Their backs still bent from the weight of our life
- Look what I spent and gents it's half price
- Cos he is bent over the sewing machine half his life
- Don't matter that we don't pull it
- If we don't care that's our breads buttered with the bullets
- Our cars choke on blood
- Limbs in our diamond tip rings go rotten
- There's something we forgotten
- Pillars of the temple may seem separate
- But they support one roof
- If your really checking it
- All of our slaughters
- Only our daughters
- Only our self in a war that we fought with
- All corrupt laws it's, we are the causes
- Cos we can't see they're all of our daughters
- Kill a couple of us you're a devil
- If you kill a couple million of them
- Get stripes and medals
- Generals conduct the great death symphony
- Played in the key of hate
- By musicians with no rhythm but offbeat killing
- Hear the harmonies the screams of young women
- They're not important
- They are just orphans
- How can that be if they're all of our daughters?
- They're not important
- They are just orphans
- How can that be if they're all of our daughters
Hook
- Kids in Iraq
- Yours and my children
- Kids in Iran
- Yours and my children
- Afghanistan
- Yours and my children
- Even Sudan
- Yours and my children
- Kids in Brazil
- Yours and my children
- Police drive by the favela and just kill them
- Kids in Brazil
- Yours and my children
- Police drive by the favela and just kill them
Verse 3
- If we decided to not be divided
- Saw no one that we could side with
- All the gun and stupid violence
- All the fun of stupid tyrants
- The blood of our defiance of the laws of natural science
- Would have subsided or died a death or had no hiding left
- Instead it provided the horse to ride on to the ride of death
- We're enlightened but we don't know right from left
- Cos we're so frightened
- Its like we're blinded to the sight of death
- For all our writing only writing on the doors of death
- We're only fighting for the right to resort to theft
- We would steal the air if we could as if we're short of breathe
- Only if we're sure that it would have the cause and effect
- If some part of us good, tell me where it is kept
- Cos we are saying nothing while we crush them like a fucking pest
- If you discuss it, everybody is turning fucking deaf
- Look down at your kids, what if they were next?
Hook
- Kids in Iraq
- Yours and my children
- Kids in Iran
- Yours and my children
- Afghanistan
- Yours and my children
- Even Sudan
- Yours and my children
- Kids in Brazil
- Yours and my children
- Police drive by the favela and just kill them
- Kids in Brazil
- Yours and my children
- Police drive by the favela and just kill them