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Akala
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Apparently
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I'm second generation, black Caribbean and half-white Scottish
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Whatever that means.
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See lately I feel confused with the boxes,
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'Cause to me all they do is breed conflict,
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It's not that I've lost touch with reality of racism, sexism and nationality,
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Just to me it all seems like insanity,
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Why must I rob you of your humanity
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To feel good about mine.
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It's all about crime, dehumanizing is how I justify 'em,
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So I must keep on lying about the history of Africa,
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So I can live the with massacres
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And repeat my mantra: Muslim, terrorist,
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So I can sleep at night as bombs take flight,
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Eyes open wide but I'm blind to the sight
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Too busy chasing the perfect life.
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And the working class keep them uneducated
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Truly educated man could never be a racist,
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To educate is to draw out what is within
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Are we not all the same under the skin?
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I got a heart like yours that pumps blood and oxygen
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And insecurities, a whole lot of "˜em,
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I'm scared like you deep down,
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I really do care that the world is not fair like you,
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But I don't even believe my own prayers like you,
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Chasing career going nowhere like you,
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Lost in a fog of my own insecurities I hold myself up as a image of purity,
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And I judge everybody else by the colour of their skin or the size of their wealth
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But it's not good for my health as the only one I ever really judge is myself
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The oppressor must suffer like the oppressed though I pretend I'm in control of this mess
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By inflating my ego, puffing my chest
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I see a weakness and need to show strength
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For what we think strong is, 'cause if we're honest,
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True strength is the strength to be honest
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And if I'm honest, I am just tired
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If I'm honest, I am just tired,
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Tired of every day filling up my car and knowing that I'm paying for the bombs in Iraq;
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Tired of pretending it don't hurt my heart, of wanting change, not knowing where to start;
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Tired of listening to all the conditioning and all the forms that they got me filling in.
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Next time you see what you think is a thug and despise him,
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Please know, I was just like him,
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'Cause I was like eight first time I saw crack, same time I first smoked weed choking on blowbacks,
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First time I saw knives penetrate flesh, it was meat cleavers to the back of the head,
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As I grew and teenage years passed, many more knives pierced and the shots blast
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And I ain't saying I had the worst upbringing but there's a million young men just like me in prison.
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We complain about racism, elevate clowns with their trousers down swinging their dick round,
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Maybe that is not quite literal but everything they do is just as stereotypical,
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To my real fans I feel your pain and I get the messages but don't complain
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That we ain't got more fame we're playing our part,
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They can keep the charts all I want is your hearts,
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They can keep the charts all I want is your hearts,
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They can keep the charts all I want is your hearts,
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Call it black radio, don't make me laugh, so is black music all about tits and arse?
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You don't represent nothing, you're just pretending,
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When was the last time you ever played Hendrix?
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Or Miles Davis, or John Coltrane, or Ella Fitzgerald, or Billie Holliday;
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We can call it urban, to me that's cool,
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If urban means street, that includes jazz too, and rock for that matter
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Go ask Mick Jagger or Jimmy Page what they were listening to - the blues
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Not discrediting, love Zeppelin, too; just giving credit where credit is due
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That blood-soaked word rappers still use,
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All it really shows is we still self-abuse,
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That was the word that was used to kill Kelso Cochrane and Emmett Till
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That was the word that the conscience eased,
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And made people pleased to hung you from trees
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That was the word that let the whips crack,
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No matter what you say you can't take it back
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And I can say they're black, so I feel their pain easier but 1915, look at Armenia,
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Is the whole world this human stupidity that we choke ourselves to death quite literally?
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And I can talk with my comfortable mouth,
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With my comfortable clothes in my comfortable house
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The tables will turn, we can not stall them
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Every empire on this earth has fallen
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So unless we can find another way
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Maybe not today but it will come one day,
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And it may sound like I'm bitter "” but in fact truth be told I am quite the opposite,
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I wake every day and I'm overwhelmed just to be alive and be like no one else
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And the sheer weight of the thought of space is enough to keep my little ego in place.
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All that we chase and try to replace
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All along it was right in our face,
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The only way the only way we can ever change anything
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Is to look in the mirror and to find no enemy,
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The only way we can ever change anything,
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Look in the mirror and to find no enemy.
AKALA - FIND NO ENEMY (OFFICIAL MUSIC VI...
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