Inside Man

[Verse 1] You wanted to protect and serve In a tense England Where your colour was your drawback in life But you became a cop too When they tried to stop you Now the long arm of the laws is black and white But most of your own force Don’t see you as equal Nor do your so call breed of people You’re trying to get nationwide respect But you haven’t even made it to the 90s yet Anything could happen to the blacks in this country Think about the power of the national front These pigs just detest us Call us “niggers” to offend us So if you're with them you’re against us None of them have ever done a serious crime But the nature of the beast puts fear in the minds Of the people you fight to make a difference for You’re a lone soldier in the kingdoms war [Hook] Sometimes you take a side To change the way it looks to you The insiders didn't pull you through Outsiders think you’re foolish too At times you may decide To leave things just the way they are And we think we hate them and they hate us But secretly we pray change comes [Verse 2] In spite of all the people that reckon your scum You still crack on and get the job done You’re a police man And this is what you offered to do You stop dealers, pimps and prostitutes You’re not just trying to get rid of the drugs and sleaze And make the underworld scream out FUCK THE POLICE But the last week you helped a pregnant woman Start her car and found a large amount of cocaine under the seat And it seems you were meant to be an enemy to everyone But then you think more sensibly when you see your baby son staring back You pray he’ll be just like his father in the future Hopefully he’ll be a lot luckier than you are You him in your arms and pray that all the good you're doing Will give him the sort of life that nobody could ruin Then you tuck him into bed and plant a kiss on his forehead Then leave to start your shift [Hook] [Verse 3] Silent night the community's good as gold And they've put you on foot patrol Nobody's around on the little side road you’re on You can’t find one crook in the cold So you turn a corner a car pulls up on your left And a masked man utters something under his breath He fires to rounds and the first one misses But the second one ends up in your chest You never would have guessed it would end this way But you can tell its over so you close your eyes and mentally pray And as the getaway car pulls off with a screech You ask that your baby remembers your face The mortal would makes morning news But only a widow is mourning you And a man at a airport sells some flights To one gentleman and his pregnant wife [Hook]