Love Me Not
Melvillous
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You love when our players score goals for you You love when our singers hit notes for you So when you see us on the TV getting choked Tell me how the hell you not emotional? I don’t know for you You love enjoying our sports, music and comedy But when we show you our pain it’s like you don’t wanna see When was Great Britain ever great, honestly? If "all lives matter" why you never treat us properly? The same goes for my Arabs and Asians Divide and conquer like they did on plantations This ain’t no race war, no colour I got hate for I’d rather see the whole world against racists And my story never started with the slave ships Our ancestors probably rolling in their graves I’m getting sick to my stomach, I can’t take this My family’s been fighting this same battle for ages Black men, black women, black children Brought us to this country they needed our black skills in We paved roads, fought wars, built buildings Now them same roads are the ones that we getting killed in Black culture, black owned, black experience Black dances, black slang, that’s on "periodt" Black blood in my veins, no fear in it Look deep in my eyes, you’ll see a tear in it Black art, black films, black media Black doctors, black business, black genius Black students, black books, black academia See a black face on the screen and we turn the TV up Black strength, black pride, black hustle Black history, black future, black struggle Being young and black is a hell of a lot to juggle Just tryna be yourself in a country that never loved you Slave owners in Britain shrouded in mystery We bring it up they say we’re stuck in the past Then tell me why you keep erasing our history? You make it hard to find out who we are? Raising the bar, yeah that’s a start The newspapers still struggle telling us apart Some light, some dark, still got the same spark Same way they treated Martin’s how they treated Rosa Parks But they glorify Churchill saying Hitler was worse still Tell that to the Indians starved in the Bengal famine The African indigenous people he called savage When you strip away the fallace there’s so much more to examine Then came Windrush We helped to rebuild Britain after the Second World War for low income The promise of a better life A picture painted with a thin brush Helped you back on your feet then you dissed us “Go back where you came from!” That’s the thanks we get Man you better show some damn respect The way you’ve treated us ain’t something that we can forget We grow up watching family members harassed by feds And treated less than a human being, missing opportunities When we’re the most qualified you pick the ones who do the least It’s hard swallowing the truth cause it’s ugly How can I be myself in a country that don’t love me?
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Written by: DURIEL MENSAH, MELVILLE GORDON
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