Lowkey – Obama Nation Lyrics
Lyrics
Intro
- This track is not an attack upon the American people,
- It’s an attack upon the system within which they live.
- Since 1945 the United States has attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments,
- In the process the US has caused the end of life for several million people,
- And condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.
Verse 1
- The strength of your dreaming prevents you from reason,
- The American dream only makes sense if you’re sleeping,
- It’s just a cruel fantasy; their politics took my voice away,
- But their music gave it back to me,
- The land where the lumpen are consumed by consumption,
- Killing themselves to shovel down food in abundance,
- I guess a rapper from Britain is a rare voice,
- America is capitalism on steroids,
- Natives kept in casinos and reservations,
- Displaced slaves never given reparations,
- Take everything from Native Americans,
- And wonder why i call it the racist experiment,
- Afraid of your melanin, the same as it’s ever been,
- That aint gonna change with the race of the president,
- I see imperialism under your skin tone,
- You could call it Christopher Columbus syndrome.
Chorus x2
- Is it Obama’s nation? Or an abomination?
- Is it Obama’s nation? Or an abomination?
- Is it Obama’s nation? Or an abomination?
- Doesn’t make any difference when they bomb your nation.
- O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
- What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
- Whose broad stripes and bright stars through perilous fight,
- O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
Verse 2
- The world’s entertainer, the world’s devastator,
- From Venezuela, to Mesopotamia,
- Your cameras lie, cause they have to hide the savage crimes,
- Committed on leaders that happen to try and nationalize,
- Eating competitions? while the worlds been starving,
- Beat up communism with the help of Bin Laden,
- Where would your war of terror be without that man,
- Every day you create more Nidal Hassan’s,
- Kill a man from the military, you’re a weirdo,
- But kill a wog from the Middle East you’re a hero,
- Your country is causing screams that never reach your ear holes,
- America inflicted a million Ground Zero’s,
- Follow the dollar and swallow your humanity,
- Soldier’s committing savagery you never even have to see,
- Those mad at me, writing emails angrily,
- I’m not anti-America, America is anti-me!
Chorus x2
- Is it Obama’s nation? Or an abomination?
- Is it Obama’s nation? Or an abomination?
- Is it Obama’s nation? Or an abomination?
- Doesn’t make any difference when they bomb your nation.
- And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
- Gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there,
- O! say does that star spangled banner yet wave,
- O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Verse 3
- I don’t care if him and Cheney are long lost relations,
- What matters more is the policies, I lost my patience,
- Stop debating bringing race into the conversation,
- Occupation and cooperation equals profit making,
- It’s over; people wake up from the dream now,
- Nobel peace prize, Jay Z on speed-dial,
- It’s the substance within, not the colour of your skin,
- Are you the puppeteer or the puppet on the string?,
- So many believed it was instantly gonna’ change,
- There was still Dennis Ross, Brzezinski and Robert Gates,
- What happened to Chas freeman? (AIPAC),
- What happened to Tristan Anderson?,
- It’s a machine that keeps that man breathing,
- I have the heart to say what all the other rappers aren’t,
- Words like Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan,
- The wars on, and you morons were all wrong,
- I call Obama a bomber cause those are your bombs.