Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Ahmed , by - LowKey. Song from the album Soundtrack to the Struggle 2, in the genre Рэп и хип-хопRelease date: 04.04.2019
Record label: Mesopotamia
Song language: English
Ahmed |
| His young life was as delicate as the wing of a butterfly |
| And as fragile as a spider’s web |
| For him we cry because when he dies we all do |
| Did Ahmed not deserve a life? |
| Ahmed never hurt a fly |
| Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by |
| Certain times Ahmed wished that he could be a bird and fly |
| Beyond the sky, escape the curse of birth that he was burdened by |
| Ahmed never grew to let your racism internalise |
| Water poured from every pore in his corpse while the nurses cried |
| Ahmed was a beautiful person like you or I |
| But are we?.. |
| Ahmed could have been a doctor, lawyer or an engineer |
| Could have been a superstar but his life ended here |
| Guess he was a shooting star, burn bright and disappear |
| To some he seems to represent a menace in this hemisphere |
| Let me here make the very essence of this message clear |
| He was precious, many die like him every year |
| Ahmed was a victim of resentment and relentless fear |
| Now his soul surfs the waves, I wish we could have kept him here |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) |
| They call him Ahmed |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) |
| They call him Ahmed |
| Ahmed’s ancestors introduced to Europe Greek philosophy |
| Brought with them irrigation, mathematics and astronomy |
| Symbolically, irony of this horror isn’t lost on me |
| Trying to get to Europe via Greece is where he’s lost at sea |
| Ahmed not Achmed, it’s Ahmed, he’s that dead |
| Toddler lying lifeless on the beach with his back bent |
| Arms spread, reaching the direction that his dad went |
| If he made it here, would have been bullied for his accent |
| He was captured by the ocean, paralysed and frozen |
| While these parasites sat and typed, analysing clothing |
| Now for resources we all compete beyond the talk of war and peace |
| And talk of porous border there is corpses on the shore of Greece |
| They found a teddy next to where his body was found |
| The sea swallowed him, politics has swallowed him now |
| And those responsible, Ahmed’s ghost will follow them now |
| To the family all we can say is we are sorry he drowned |
| Because… |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) |
| They call him Ahmed |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) |
| They call him Ahmed |
| They say let him drown, let him drown, let him drown |
| What have you done, don’t let him drown, don’t let him drown |
| No what have we become, don’t let him drown |
| No, don’t let him drown |
| And they say |
| Let him drown, let him drown, let him drown |
| What have we done, don’t let him drown, don’t let him drown |
| No, what have we become, don’t let him drown |
| Please, don’t let him drown |
| Ahmed could’ve been you, and Ahmed could’ve been me |
| We need to understand the policies that put him in the sea |
| We need to understand why it is the beach is full of dying kids |
| A colonial Metropole people want to reside in |
| If he did would he make it or fall to something that’s deeper |
| End up like Jimmy Mubenga or Khaled Abu Zarifa |
| A picture by Javier Bauluz on the beaches of Tarifa |
| Made me see, some would grieve more if Ahmed was a creature |
| With four legs, then they would consider him legitimate |
| Those like him braving barbed wire burning off their finger tips |
| Balfours alien act, that mentality still exists |
| Is privilege the difference between an ex-pat and an immigrant? |
| For Ama Sumani and Osman Rasul Mohamed, when you take others humanity, |
| it’s only yours that’s stunted, not a swarm |
| They’re our sisters and brothers, that’s the sum of it |
| The cockroaches here are in the media and the government |
| Not the sea |
| The sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) |
| They call him Ahmed |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) |
| The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) |
| They call him Ahmed |
| Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by |
| Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by |
| Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by |
| And they all laugh at him… |