| I’ve been thinking a lot lately about hating
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| What eats at the heart of hate
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| Because you know I hate people every day
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| I hate tourists on Oxford Street
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| I hate children on the tube
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| And I hate slow walkers stopping me getting to my train
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| I wanna grab their faces, say with all that rages
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| Get out of my fucking way
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| But i don’t, because I know my hatred is a ghost
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| It’s a quick-flicked switch
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| A brief-lit wick
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| It’s a fake shade of hate
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| Just a frustration of place
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| I mean don’t get me wrong I’m not a saint
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| I dislike a fair few people
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| But that’s not the same as hating
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| That’s not the same as wanting to stamp on their faces
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| Haters always gonna hate they say
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| And in some places if you ain’t got hatred you ain’t got status
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| So let’s play with the face of hate
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| Hate me for a moment
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| Hate everything i am
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| Hate me because I am different to you
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| Hate my words and my brothers too
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| Hate me for my body
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| That ends at my fingertips
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| Hate my skin, my pigmentation
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| Hate me for the sensations I share with another in bed
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| Hate me for my private moments
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| Hate the tears I’ve shed and the hopes I’ve shared
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| Hate my thoughts and fears and dreams
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| Hate the man I might yet be
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| Then take your hate away, and make it something great
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| Nurture your hatred
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| Feed it and mould it like clay
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| Stoke at its embers until its coals glow red
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| Sculpt it like glass being blown
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| Till it fits the shape of your soul
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| And hate will heat you in the cold
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| Hate will be there when you’re alone
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| (When you’re alone)
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| It’s about immigrants
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| It’s about antisemitism in Hungary
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| And Pegida rising in Germany
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| It’s about Orlando
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| It’s about invading mosques
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| It’s about a jungle in Calais and a black boy shot in the streets in the USA
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| It’s looking at a human race, that sometimes seems consumed, and wasted,
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| by hatred
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| And standing up to that and saying, I am not afraid |