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The views expressed on this track are not directly those of lowkey or logic, were just drawing attention to the lifestyles that some people lead
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Lowkey: I was born in Birmancy, one of the south parts
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Logic: And I was born in Bazara, southside of Iraq
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Lowkey: We used to play football outside in the park
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Logic: We used to dodge bullets outside in the dark
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Lowkey: I never prayed, I was told there isn't a god
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Logic: I prayed 5 times a day its like I lived in a mosque
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Lowkey: Me, I'm easy with a pint and some cricket to watch
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Logic: They sanctioned everything we got, so now it isn't a lot
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Lowkey: My mom and dad worked hard, always had employment
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Logic: My mom just left and my dad got poisoned
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I was young but I was told that the government did it
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Lowkey: From my heart I can say that I love being British
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I grew with 5 older brothers and sisters
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Logic: Yeah I had a lot of siblings but some have gone missing
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Now it's just me and my little sis
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Lowkey: Britain's got a lot of immigrants; they take our jobs everyday I swear I'm sick of it
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Logic: My Uncles trying to get to Britain quick
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Lowkey: I'm trying to find a job
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Logic: Me I'm still illiterate
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Lowkey: every 2 weeks I'm signing on
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Logic: we only had school a little bit
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Lowkey: I got kicked out of school very early, labeled as an idiot
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Logic: Before my uncle left us, he gave me his gun
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Lowkey: my girl just gave me a son
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Logic: You see its hot where I live, every day I bake in the sun
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Lowkey: Its cold where I live so I read every page to my son
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And I'm getting mad, with what I look at and read
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Logic: I just met a couple elders that "¦"¦"¦.
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Lowkey: My dad told me joining an army would be good for the peace
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Logic: I started meeting, now I'm training with the mujahedeen
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Because I've heard that the westerners are coming with bombs
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Lowkey: I spent months in the regiment training up to be shot
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Logic: But this is my land, my country, ill defend it till I pass
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Lowkey: I just got the message that they're sending me to Iraq
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Our pain is the same, but its all relative
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They cried the same tears, you cried for your relatives
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And one way or another, my brother were all relatives
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Home is where the heart is, yeah that's where it is (2X)
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Lowkey: Now I'm in the south of Iraq, it's a smelly place
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I don't know who to trust, everybody's got a hairy face
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Logic: And Bazara's a scary place, its worse than it used to be
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They're dropping bombs everyday
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Lowkey: Even little boys shooting me
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Logic: I shoot at white faces, and any green suit I see
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Lowkey: Every regiment's lost a couple of troops; we've lost 2 or 3
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Logic: I still go to pray in the same place the mosque used to be
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Lowkey: I see little kids starving to death, with no food to eat,
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But an orders an order, we've got to clean the city up
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Logic: they see how we're suffering, and still they don't pity us
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They shoot us every day tomorrow's probably me
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Lowkey: We're trying to help these bastards, but its like they don't want to be free
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Logic: Yeah these people don't know what freedom is
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Lowkey: I saw my colleague rape a woman against her will, but I didn't agree with it
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Logic: I shot a soldier in the face, and then I hacked "¦. Real quick
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Lowkey: My sergeant got shot in his face by some dumb young kid,
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Now I just want to go home that's where my heart is
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Logic: My heart is in Bazara, and never will I part it
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Lowkey: this wars going nowhere, tell me why did we start it?
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Logic: I'm fighting regardless till I'm resting where Allah is
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Lowkey: come to think of it, I should have never joined the army
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And when I think about it, I don't hate these Iraqi's
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Logic: Yeah bullets flying past me, I'm scared but I cant run,
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I take my sister upstairs and get my uncles old gun
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Lowkey: Don't know if its terrorists or just some civilians,
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but I've been told to neutralize the threat up in that building
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Logic: I see the soldiers they're about to pass, I take my pistol out and blast
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Lowkey: A bullet wizzes by my face and tears my friends mouth apart,
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I saw red, and starting shooting to make em all dead
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Logic: I tried to guard my sister, but a bullet hit her forehead
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Lowkey: I ran up the steps to see if I buried them all
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But all I saw was my little sister dead on the floor
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Our pain is the same, but its all relative
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They cried the same tears, you cried for your relatives
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And one way or another, my brother were all relatives
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Home is where the heart is, yeah that's where it is
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