Lowkey – Dear England Lyrics
Lyrics
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