[Chorus] Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed Dear England, Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed
They say God save the queen, Britannia rules the waves, Britannia's in my genes, But Britannia called us slaves, Britannia made the borders, Cause Britannia's forces came Britannia lit the match, But Britannia fears the flame When blood stains the pavement Tears stain the cheek When privilege is threatened, the fear reigns supreme Where bankers are earning, from burning and looting The nervous are shooting, search for solutions I shed a tear for the father in Birmingham, Quick swerve of the car and and it murdered them, In Tottenham the apartments were burning and, Nobody came just arson is circling All wanna be down, Til TV's get robbed like jewels on the queen's crown They see now no cause for a rebound See now they call me a fool cause I speak out People are humans not mindless animals This violent tyrannical system is fallable Hand in the looter the minute you see him But the biggest looter's are the british museum This happened here and you think its an accident Just relax as we slip into fascism And the fear gets drilled into your hearts But remember these children are all ours
[Chorus] Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed Dear England, Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed
If a policeman can kill a black man where he found him A soldier can kill an Afghan in the mountains A petty thief can get ransack from his housing While the bankers are lounging That’s my surrounding Took land, no one in your family has heard of Before you sleep, whisper the mantra you learnt cause Never will there be a day that cameras are turned off Who runs this country, Cameron or Murdoch? Who's the government, a government that can’t govern Can't you figure its way bigger than Mark Duggan, Bigger than smiley, bigger than Jean Charles Hundreds are dead but not one killer is on trial Just the familiar sound of hysteria Bombs over Libya but not this area Downing street I can find villains Cut education, privatize prisons Surprised by theft when it’s organized, But mass of morality is normalized Assumptions surrounding the looting of London But this is a system consumed by consumption It happened here and you think it’s an accident Just relax as we slip into fascism And the fear gets drilled into your hearts But remember these children are all ours
[Chorus] Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed Dear England, Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed
Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed Dear England, Whoa, give me the words, give me the words That tell me I failed.