Tonart: C minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
Cm
Look
Imagine an island where the party
never ends
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Where it's less about money
and it's more about friends
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Where the vibes can't done
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It's less about fundin'
and and more about fun
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Tropical sun,
Fm
that's life in the '60s comin' from the Caribbean
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You know Ian, Delroy, Vivian,
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Winston
G
Who got drafted to England
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Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton
Cm
To say they're the life of the party,
you're wrong
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Gm
My Jamaicans the entire party,
you can't see?
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Fm
Big Notting Hill carni, you
can't see?
Dm
And the ride's fiber glass,
Fm
Imagine a place where you
raise your kids
Eb
The only place you live says
you ain't a Brit
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They're deportin' our people
and it makes me sick
Bdim
'Cause they were broken by
the country that they came to fix
Verse 2
Cm
They came at the invitation of the
British Government
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The passports were stamped
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indefinitely to remain
Fm
But for some who were children then,
Dm
that was a false promise
Fm
"Thirty- seven years of
paying taxes
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And I got a letter saying
I was an illegal immigrant
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I came to England at the age of ten
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and I've lived here all my life"
Verse 3
Cm
Look, imagine a world that's flawed
and full of evil
Dm
Where dictators and leaders
Gm
are persecutin' your people
Ab
The bodies of the innocent
Fm
are pilin' to the steeples
Dm
The ironic part is they're preyin'
on the feeble
Fm
That's life in the 90's, you're
Eastern European
Eb
And you seein' people dyin' 'cause
they're fightin' for their freedom
Bb
Dm
And show you violence
for havin' a voice
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You move out with your kids in hope
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of havin' a choice
Cm
Life throws you a spanner,
you can't handle the pain
Eb
So you gamble and you drink and then
you gamble again
Ab
You argue with your wife and then
Fm
you sleep on the couch
You hit your children,
G
then start freezin' 'em out
Fm
You try and work things out,
but it's never the same
Eb
All the women in your household
are livin' afraid
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Dm
When you look into the mirror
Bb
you're reminded again
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That you've become the dictator
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you were fightin' against
Cm
It's like
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Cm
We're fightin' for our rights, for
Verse 4
Bb
all our mothers
Gm
Ab
And then we, we
Fm
We are fighting for our homes
G
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Fm
We are fighting for our
own
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G
Dm
Verse 5
G
Cm
Look, imagine a world
that's fucked and untrue
Eb
Where the many pay a price for the few
Ab
Fm
And every day the sun rises
a little later
Dm
That's how it is when your
G
oppressor is your liberator
Fm
That's right now livin' in
Praise Allah for the peace
Bb
Death from a sky littered with stars
G
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You run away with your kids
G
so you can give them a chance
Cm
But your asylum has got you in
a different war
Bb
Dm
Because the British wanna know
Gm
what you're livin' here for
Ab
We rely on migration more than
They're key workers,
G
but they couldn't even get in the door
Fm
When you're at Heaven's Gates,
what you tellin' the Lord?
Eb
You wouldn't even let a kid
into some steadier shores
Bb
That's a life they may never afford
Dm
G
Surely you would wanna give
your people chances
That were better than yours?
Verse 6
No?
Cm
"In ten years of conflict
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More than twelve- thousand children
have been killed or injured"
Ab
Fm
"The children here are just a
tiny fraction
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G
Of the estimated six- million
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In need of emergency humanitarian
assistance
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It's thought perhaps,
as many of three- million
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No longer live in their own homes
And up to two- million children no longer
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G
at tend school
Cm
The opportunities of this generation
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Gm
Eb
Have been changed forever by this conflict"
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
Cm
"I went to silence when I need to who the,
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G
who the fuck I was, bro
Bb
Like, I won't hear anyone else,
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shut everyone else out
Cm
So I could just hear myself, bro
Fm
You know what I'm sayin'?
'Cause we live in this world, yeah
Bb
Fm
Ab
You stand still, the way the tides set up
Eb
It will take you away from yourself,
G
So then I was like "Aight, cool"
Bb
But, I had to get silent,
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but it's not like mans goin' against the tide
'Cause goin' against the
Cm
Fm
tide still makes it about them
G
Still makes it about the poison
That you've internalized in your mind,
Ab
you feel me?
It's like "Bro, why am I in this water?
Cm
Man, this water doesn't even like me,
it's not even for me
It's not takin' me where I wanna go, it's
not takin' me where I wanna go
Bb
It's who the fuck I am, bro,
you know I'm sayin'?
Eb
It's like the tide will tell me that
Cm
Fm
bein' black is an obstacle
Bb
Fm
I had to, switch rivers, bro
Cm
It's like bein' black is an asset
I am who I am because I'm black
And I love everything about
And that's who the fuck I am"
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