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The views expressed on this track are not directly those of Lowkey or Logic, we're just drawing attention to the lifestyles that some people lead. |
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Lowkey: I was born in Bermondsey, one of the south parts |
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Logic: And I was born in Basra, southside of Iraq |
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Lowkey: We used to play football outside in the park |
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Logic: We used to dodge bullets outside in the dark |
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Lowkey: I never prayed, I was told there isn't a god |
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Logic: I prayed 5 times a day its like I lived in a mosque |
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Lowkey: Me, I'm easy with a pint and some cricket to watch |
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Logic: They sanctioned everything we got, so now it isn't a lot |
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Lowkey: My mum and dad worked hard, always had employment |
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Logic: My mom just left and my dad got poisoned |
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I was young but I was told that the government did it |
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Lowkey: From my heart I can say that I love being British |
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I grew with 5 older brothers and sisters |
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Logic: Yeah I had a lot of siblings but some have gone missing |
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Now it's just me and my little sis |
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Lowkey: Britain's got a lot of immigrants;they take our jobs everyday I swear I'm sick of it |
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Logic: My uncle's trying to get to Britain quick |
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Lowkey: I'm trying to find a job |
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Logic: Me I'm still illiterate |
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Lowkey: every 2 weeks I'm signing on |
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Logic: we only had school a little bit |
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Lowkey: I got kicked out of school very early, labeled as an idiot |
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Logic: Before my uncle left us, he gave me his gun |
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Lowkey: my girl just gave me a son |
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Logic: You see its hot where I live, every day I bake in the sun |
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Lowkey: Its cold where I live so I read every page of the Sun |
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And I'm getting mad, with what I look at and read |
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Logic: I just met a couple elders that are good on their Deen. |
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Lowkey: My dad told me joining an army would be good for the peace |
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Logic: I started meeting, now I'm training with the mujahedeen |
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Because I've heard that the westerners are coming with bombs |
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Lowkey: I spent months in the regiment training up to be shot |
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Logic: But this is my land, my country, ill defend it till I pass |
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Lowkey: I just got the message that they're sending me to Iraq |
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Pain is the same fam, its all relative |
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They cried the same tears, you cried for your relatives |
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And one way or another, my brother we're all relatives |
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Home is where the heart is, yeah that's where it is (2X) |
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Lowkey: Now I'm in the south of Iraq, it's a smelly place |
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I don't know who to trust, everybody's got a hairy face |
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Logic: And Bazara's a scary place, its worse than it used to be |
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They're dropping bombs everyday |
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Lowkey: Even little boys s***t at me |
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Logic: I s***t at white faces, and any green suit I see |
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Lowkey: Every regiment's lost a couple of troops;we've lost 2 or 3 |
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Logic: I still go to pray in the same place the mosque used to be |
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Lowkey: I see little kids starving to death, with no food to eat, |
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But an orders an order, we've got to clean the city up |
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Logic: they see how we're suffering, and still they don't pity us |
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They s***t us every day tomorrow's probably me |
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Lowkey: We're trying to help these bastards, but its like they don't want to be free |
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Logic: Yeah these people don't know what freedom is |
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Lowkey: I saw my colleague R**e a woman against her will, but I didn't agree with it |
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Logic: I shot a soldier in the face and then I had to run quick |
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Lowkey: My sergeant got shot in his face by some dumb young kid, |
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Now I just want to go home that's where my heart is |
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Logic: My heart is in Basra, and never will I part it |
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Lowkey: this wars going nowhere, tell me why did we start this |
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Logic: I'm fighting regardless till I'm resting where Allah is |
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Lowkey: come to think of it, I should have never joined the army |
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And when I think about it, I don't hate these Iraqi's |
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Logic: Yeah bullets flying past me, I'm scared but I cant run, |
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I take my sister upstairs and get my uncle's old gun |
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Lowkey: Don't know if it's terrorists or just some civilians, |
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But I've been told to neutralize the threat up in that building |
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Logic: I see the soldiers they're about to pass, I take my pistol out and blast |
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Lowkey: A bullet wizzes by my face and tears my friends mouth apart, |
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I saw red, and starting shooting to make em all dead |
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Logic: I tried to guard my sister, but a bullet hit her forehead |
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Lowkey: I ran up the steps to see if I buried them all |
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But all I saw was |
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Logic: my little sister dead on the floor |
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Our pain is the same, but its all relative |
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They cried the same tears, you cried for your relatives |
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And one way or another, my brother we're all relatives |
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Home is where the heart is, yeah that's where it is |
