Akala - Welcome To England lyrics

Welcome to England, part of so called Great Britain But ain't a f**ing thing great about the way we're living For me it's hard to see how we're perceived over seas It's believed we sip teas, and speak like the Queen n***a please, the streets will s** your blood like a leech A lot of shells, ya get wet but real far from a beach Dole queue, fifty pounds a week, ends don't meet If ya like me even your mum's done hustled more than weed Times are harder, we get dads but few get fathers And we still pray but sh**, get few answers Every single area with an ethnic majority Full of d**, guns and poverty, getting to thirty is a lottery And the government, deceiving the white working cla**es Into believing they're supportive to us black ba*tards Bullsh**! Like we're living so cool Go to your local fast food, take a look at who's serving you And the schools are bullsh** too, so we're weighing out grams I'm strange amongst the mans 'cause I got some exams I grew among youths real nice with the knowledge Yet I'm the only one who finished school, let alone college Our role models ain't doctors, but shottas who pop hollows Chefs that cook food that'll k** you if you swallow So addictive once the wicked thing holds you, you're never right Can't begin to count the lives I've seen consumed by the pipe Walking ghosts, that sold their own soul for them rocks And mandem shot them rocks, just to cop rocks 'Cause the shining kind of rocks make s*uts s** co*k Along with jocks and repping their ends by busting gunshots It's on top, you cannot tell me all is not lost Grown man is busting shots just 'cause they're dying for props That's why, public displays, guns spraying in raves But most of these youths can't shoot, so innocents hit by the strays Our, future is f**ed, that much is obvious And I'm, far from perfect so I make no promises 'Cause every day create more Doreen Lawrences So it's fake, when they make out like all is positive I gotta keep them things and be willing to bust them n***as is ignorant, no discussion, you'll get murdered for nothing A pregnant woman, got kneecapped, over a car crash Ten year old boy stabbed and left bleeding to d**h in his own flat Man is warring over manors not even d** You'll get plugged, for stepping on the wrong toe in clubs You wanna know how real it is? I'll tell you with ease All you gotta do, look at the last two New Year's Eves One just pa**ed, four teenage girls went out for a blast Two never came home, machine guns that were blast The year before, a man survived a shot in the chest Bullet pierced the wall, put the gunman's own friend to his d**h And what's funny, is that we ain't even shocked This sh** happens every day, so we just shrug it off And that's a basic introduction to Britain's black community No Puffys or Jiggas 'cause we got no unity That's why, half the world don't even know that we're here Yet we're living the same struggle, our mothers cry the same tears And of course, I want my kids to have a better life But for now... I gotta survive