| This is Jamal’s song, name means beauty, are we this far gone?
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| Headlines associate kids with waterboarding and car bombs
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| Jamal’s from same part of the world you got the guitar from
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| Still a wonderful world, sing it like Louis Armstrong
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| Any kid bullied, I made this to keep your heart strong
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| Colonisers names the same pavements that we march on
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| Please don’t project the war on terror onto children
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| They are not suspects or combatants, you cannot kill them
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| Please don’t project the war on terror onto Grenfell
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| State capture and de-regulation, it doesn’t end well
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| Prevent spying on children, got them stepping on eggshells
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| Flash lies across the pages, Islamophobia and death cells
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| Psychological warriors, mess with the percentages
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| Innocent kids in school labelled grooming gangs and terrorists
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| Battle stereotypes like climbing over Everest
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| What we must question is how these ideas became so prevalent
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| The rag-heads and Pakis are still worrying your dad
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| But your dad’s favourite food is still curry or kebab
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| The rag-heads and Pakis are still worrying your dad
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| But your dad’s favourite food is still curry or kebab
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| Oh, I know you’re peering through the window
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| But they don’t see you anymore
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| Don’t lose yourself in what they think though
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| 'Cause this has never been your war
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| You can tell Prevent stop spying on little kids
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| Tell the terrible tabloids stop tarnishing immigrants
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| And tell the think-thanks their role is insidious
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| And tell the nasty neocons stop funding this ignorance
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| Victims of this myth creation searching for inspiration
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| Hope this song can comfort you through the intimidation
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| Hope you beat those that smeared you through the courts of litigation
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| And hold your heads up high through these trials and tribulations
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| These morbid remorseless authors, pave the way for disorders
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| They murdered the Magna Carta, to hell with habeas corpus, rendition
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| Torture across borders, they tore up laws as they scorch them
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| Now they, pull up the drawbridge and tell you hordes are enormous
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| Only 0.18% of this country’s refugees, won’t regulate fossil fuelers or owners
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| of SUVs
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| But they demonise heroes for braving the seven seas, 34,000 die trying to enter
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| here, rest in peace
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| Moment of silence
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| The rag-heads and Pakis are still worrying your dad
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| But your dad’s favourite food is still curry or kebab
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| The rag-heads and Pakis are still worrying your dad
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| But your dad’s favourite food is still curry or kebab
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| Oh, I know you’re peering through the window
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| But they don’t see you anymore
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| Don’t lose yourself in what they think though
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| 'Cause this has never been your war
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| A cucumber’s not a bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home
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| A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone
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| A cucumber’s not a bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home
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| A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone
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| Cucumber’s not a bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home
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| A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone
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| Cucumber’s not a bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home
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| A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone
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| Cucumber’s not a bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home
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| A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone |