Lowkey - Relatives lyrics

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Intro [Lowkey & Logic]:

The views expressed on this track are not directly those of lowkey or logic, were just drawing attention to the lifestyles that some people lead

[Lowkey:] I was born in Bermondsey, one of the south parts

[Logic:] And I was born in Basra, southside of Iraq

[Lowkey:] We used to play football outside in the park

[Logic:] We used to dodge bullets outside in the dark

[Lowkey:] I never prayed, I was told there isn't a god

[Logic:] I prayed 5 times a day it's like I lived in a mosque

[Lowkey:] Me, I'm easy with a pint and some cricket to watch

[Logic:] They sanctioned everything we got, so now it isn't a lot

[Lowkey:] My mom and dad worked hard, always had employment

[Logic:]

My mom just left and my dad got poisoned

I was young but I was told that the government did it

[Lowkey:]

From my heart I can say that I love being British

I grew with 5 older brothers and sisters

[Logic:]

Yeah I had a lot of siblings but some have gone missing

Now it's just me and my little sis

[Lowkey:] Britain's got a lot of immigrants; they take our jobs everyday I swear I'm sick of it

[Logic:] My Uncles trying to get to Britain quick

[Lowkey:] I'm trying to find a job

[Logic:] Me I'm still illiterate

[Lowkey:] every 2 weeks I'm signing on

[Logic:] we only had school a little bit

[Lowkey:] I got kicked out of school very early, labelled as a idiot

[Logic:] Before my uncle left us, he gave me his gun

[Lowkey:] my girl just gave me a son

[Logic:] You see it's hot where I live, every day I bake in the sun

[Lowkey:]

It's cold where I live so I read every page of the sun

And I'm getting mad, with what I look at and read

[Logic:] I just met a couple elders that good on their deen.

[Lowkey:] My dad told me joining an army would be good for the peace

[Logic:]

I started meeting, now I'm training with the mujahideen

Because I've heard that the westerners are coming with bombs

[Lowkey:] I spent months in the regiment training up to be strong

[Logic:] But this is my land, my country, I'll defend it till I fall

[Lowkey:] I just got the message that they're sending me to Iraq

Chorus (2x):

[Logic:] Pain is the same fam,

[Lowkey:] It's all relative

[Logic:] They cried the same tears,

[Lowkey:] You cried for your relatives

[Logic:] In one way or another,

[Lowkey:] my brother were all relatives

[Logic:]Home is where the heart is,

[Lowkey:] yeah that's where it is

[Lowkey:]

Now I'm in the south of Iraq, it's a smelly place

I don't know who to trust, everybody's got a hairy face

[Logic:]

And Basra's a scary place, it's worse than it used to be

They're dropping bombs everyday

[Lowkey:] Even little boys shooting me

[Logic:] I shoot at white faces, and any green suit I see

[Lowkey:] Every regiment's lost a couple of troops; we've lost 2 or 3

[Logic:] I still go to pray in the same place the mosque used to be

[Lowkey:] I see little kids starving to death, with no food to eat,

But an orders an order, we've got to clean the city up

[Logic:]

They see how we're suffering, and still they don't pity us

They shoot us every day tomorrow's probably me

[Lowkey:] We're trying to help these bastards, but it's like they don't want to be free

[Logic:] Yeah these people don't know what freedom is

[Lowkey:] I saw my colleague rape a woman against her will, but I didn't agree with it

[Logic:] I shot a soldier in the face, and then I had to run

[Lowkey:]

My sergeant got shot in his face by some dumb young kid,

Now I just want to go home that's where my heart is

[Logic:] My heart is in Basra yea, and never will I part it

[Lowkey:] this wars going nowhere, tell me why did we start this

[Logic:] I'm fighting regardless till I'm resting where Allah is

[Lowkey:]

Come to think of it, I should have never joined the army

And when I think about it, I don't hate these Iraqi's

[Logic:]

I hear bullets flying past me, I'm scared but I can't run,

I take my sister upstairs and get my uncles old gun

[Lowkey:]

Don't know if it's terrorists or just some civilians,

But I've been told to neutralize the threat up in that building

[Logic:] I see the soldiers they're about to pass, I take my pistol out and blast

[Lowkey:]

A bullet whizzes past my face and tears my friends mouth apart,

I saw red, and starting shooting to make em all dead

[Logic:] I tried to guard my sister, but a bullet hit her forehead

[Lowkey:]

I ran up the steps to see if I buried them all

But all I saw...

[Logic:] ...Was my little sister dead on the floor

Chorus (2x):

[Lowkey:] Pain is the same fam,

[Logic:] It's all relative

[Lowkey:] They cried the same tears,

[Logic:] You cried for your relatives

[Lowkey:] In one way or another,

[Logic:] my brother were all relatives

[Lowkey:] Home is where the heart is,

[Logic:] yeah that's where it is

Thanks to Shawn for correcting these lyrics