Dear England

[Hook: Mai Khalil] Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me nothing Dear England Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me nothing [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, cause Britannia's forces came Britannia lit the match, but Britannia fears the flame Where blood stains the pavement, tears stain a cheek And privilege is threatened, the fear reigns supreme Where bankers are earning, from burning and looting The nervous are shooting, search for solutions I shed a tear for the father in Birmingham Quick swerve of the car and it murdered them In Tottenham the apartments were burning And nobody came just arson is circling All wanna be down till TVs get robbed like jewels on the queens crown They say now no cause for a rebound See now they call me a fool cause I speak out People are humans, not mindless animals This violent tyrannical system is fallable Hand in a looter the minute you see 'em But the biggest looters are the British museum This happened here and you think its a accident Just relax as we slip into fascism And the fear gets drilled into your hearts But remember these children are all ours [Hook] [Verse 2] If a policeman can kill a black man where he found him A soldier 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 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 that cameras are turned off Who runs this country, Cameron or Murdoch? Who's the government, a government that can't govern Can't you figure it's ways bigger than Mark Duggan Bigger than Smiley, bigger than Jean Charles Hundreds are dead not one killer is on trial Just a familiar sound of hysteria Bombs over Libya but not this area Downing Street I can find villains Cut education, privatise prisons Surprised by theft when it's organised But mass immorality is normalised Assumptions surrounding the looting of London But this is a system consumed by consumption Yea it happened here and you think its a accident Just relax as we slip into fascism And the fear gets drilled into your hearts But remember these children are all ours [Hook]