Three Rivers
(专辑: We're All Alone In This Together - 2021)
Look Imagine an island where the
party never ends Where it's less about money and it's more about friends Where the
vibes can't done It's less about funding and and more about fun Tropical sun, this life in the
'60s coming from the
Caribbean You know Ian, Delroy, Vivian, Winston Who got drafted to England Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton To say they're the
life of the
party, you're wrong My Jamaicans the
entire party, you can't see? Big Notting Hill carni, you can't see? And the
ride's fiber glass, G, you wan' see? Imagine a
place where you raise your kids The
only place you live says you ain't a
Brit They're deporting our people and it makes me sick 'Cause they was broken by the
country that they came to fix It's like They came on the
invitation of the
British Government The
passports were stacked indefinitely to remain But for some who were children then, that was a
false promise "Thirty-seven years of paying taxes and I
got a
letter saying I
was an illegal immigrant I
came here to England at the
age of ten and I've lived here all my life" Look, imagine a
world that's flawed and full of evil Where dictators and leaders are persecuting your people The
bodies of the
innocence are piling to the
steeples The
ironic part is they're preying on the
feeble That's life in the
90's, you're Eastern European And you seeing people dying 'cause they're fighting for their freedom And show you violence for having a
voice You move out with your kids in hope of having a
choice Life throws you a
spanner, you can't handle the
pain So you gamble and you drink and then you gamble again You argue with your wife and then you sleep on the
couch You hit your children, then start freezing 'em out You try and work things out, but it's never the
same All the
women in your household are living afraid When you look into the
mirror you're reminded again That you've become the
dictator you were fighting against It's like We're fighting for our rights, for all our mothers... And then we, we... we are fighting for our homes... We are fighting for our own... Look, imagine a
world that's fucked and untrue Where the
many pay a
price for the
few And every day the
sun rises a
little later That's how it is when your oppressor is your liberator 'Cause right now living in the
Middle East Praise Allah for the
peace Death from a
sky littered with stars You run away with your kids so you can give them a
chance But your asylum has got you in a
different war Because the
British wanna know what you're living here for We rely on migration more than ever before They're key workers, but they couldn't even get in the
door When you're at Heaven's Gates, what you telling the
Lord? You wouldn't even let a
kid into some steadier shores That's a
life they may never afford Surely you would wanna give your people chances that were better than yours? No? Ten years of conflict, and twelve-thousand children have been killed or injured The
children here are just a
tiny fraction of the
estimated six-million in need of emergency medical asisstance As many of three-million no longer in their own homes With up to two-million children attend school The
opportunities of this generation have been changed forever by this conflict I
went to silence when I
need to who the, who the
fuck I
was, bro Like, I
won't hear anyone else, shut everyone else out So I
could just hear myself, bro You know what I'm sayin'? Cause we live in this world, yeah You stand still, the
way the
tides set up It will take you away from yourself, you feel me? So then I
was like "Aight, cool" But, I
had to get silent, but it's not like mans going against the
tide 'Cause going against the
tide still makes it about them Still makes it about the
poison that you've eternalized in your mind, you feel me? It's like "Bro, why am I
in this water? Man, this water don't even like me, it's not even for me It's not taking me where I
wanna go, it's not taking me where I
wanna go It's who the
fuck I
am, bro, you know I'm sayin'? So the
tide will tell me that being black is an obstacle See what I'm sayin'? I
had to, switch Rivers, bro It's like being black is an asset I
am who I
am because I'm black And I
love everything about it, you feel me? And that's who the
fuck I
am