Key: C minor•
Intro 1
Cm
Fm
Bb
Eb
Ab
Fm
Ddim
G
Fm
Eb
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G
Verse 1
Cm
Look
Imagine an island where the party
never ends
and it's more about friends
and and more about fun
Dm
G
Tropical sun,
Fm
that's life in the '60s comin' from the Caribbean
Bb
Winston
Bdim
Abm
Bdim
Gaug
Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton
you're wrong
Dm
Gm
My Jamaicans the entire party,
you can't see?
Ab
Fm
Big Notting Hill carni, you
can't see?
raise your kids
you ain't a Brit
and it makes me sick
the country that they came to fix
Verse 2
British Government
paying taxes
I was an illegal immigrant
Verse 3
and full of evil
on the feeble
Eastern European
they're fightin' for their freedom
Bb
Dm
And show you violence
for havin' a voice
Bdim
You move out with your kids in hope
you can't handle the pain
you gamble again
You hit your children,
but it's never the same
are livin' afraid
Bb
Dm
When you look into the mirror
G
Baug
That you've become the dictator
Cm
It's like
Fm
Cm
We're fightin' for our rights, for
Verse 4
Bb
all our mothers
Gm
Ab
And then we, we
G
Fm
Ddim
Fm
We are fighting for our
own
Eb
Bb
G
Dm
Verse 5
G
that's fucked and untrue
Ab
Fm
And every day the sun rises
a little later
Praise Allah for the peace
G
Bdim
You run away with your kids
a different war
Bb
Dm
Because the British wanna know
They're key workers,
what you tellin' the Lord?
into some steadier shores
Dm
G
Surely you would wanna give
your people chances
That were better than yours?
Verse 6
No?
have been killed or injured"
Ab
Fm
"The children here are just a
tiny fraction
Dm
G
Of the estimated six- million
assistance
as many of three- million
And up to two- million children no longer
Bdim
G
at tend school
Dm
Gm
Eb
Have been changed forever by this conflict"
Interlude 1
Ab
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Dm
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Fm
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Cm
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Verse 7
Cm
"I went to silence when I need to who the,
Eb
G
who the fuck I was, bro
'Cause we live in this world, yeah
Bb
Fm
Ab
You stand still, the way the tides set up
Eb
but it's not like mans goin' against the tide
'Cause goin' against the
Cm
Fm
tide still makes it about them
That you've internalized in your mind,
Ab
you feel me?
It's like "Bro, why am I in this water?
it's not even for me
It's not takin' me where I wanna go, it's
not takin' me where I wanna go
you know I'm sayin'?
Cm
Fm
bein' black is an obstacle
Bb
Fm
I had to, switch rivers, bro
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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