Key: Bb minor
Verse 1
G
from?"
Like, "Where you really from?"
The question seems simple
but the answer's kinda long
I could tell 'em Wembley but I don't think that's
what they want
But I don't wanna tell 'em more 'cause
anything I say is wrong
Britain's where I'm born and I love a cup of tea and that
Verse 2
G
But tea ain't from
Britain,
it's from where my DNA is at
And where my genes are from
That's where they make my
jeans and that
Then send them over to
NYC, that's where they stack the P's and that
Verse 3
G
the British flag
And I only got the
shits when I went back to Pak
And my ancestors' Indian
but India was not for us
My people built the West, we even gave
the skinheads swastikas
Verse 4
back
If you want me back to where
I'm from then bruv I need a map
Or if everyone just gets their shit
back then that's bless for us
You only built a piece of this place bruv,
the rest was us
Verse 5
and nowhere
No man's land,
between the trenches
Nothing grows there
But it's fertilised by the brown
bodies
Fought for you in the war
So when I spit a poppy grows
there
Verse 6
Yeah I make my own space in this business of Britishness
G
Your question's just limiting,
it's based on appearances
Verse 7
Stop trying to make a box for us I'll make my own and bruck
G
your poxy concept of us
Very few fit these labels so I'm repping for the
rest of us
Who know that there's no place like home
and that stretches us
Who code switch so don't piss
me off for a cricket test for us
Or question us about our loyalty, our blood
and sweat's enough
Born under a sun you made too hot for us
Verse 8
G
Kidnapped
by empire and diaspora
fostered us
Raised by bhangra, garage and halal southern fried
chicken shops
A junglist and jungly
I'm Mowgli from the Jungle
Book, I'm John Barnes in the box
I blaze hard after mosque
until they just spell what
Verse 9
My tribe is a quest to a land that was lost to us
And its name is dignity
So where I'm from is not your problem bruv
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