[00:13.77]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.
[00:25.50]Lowkey: I was born in Bermondsey, one of the south parts
[00:28.80]Logic: And I was born in Basra, southside of Iraq
[00:32.04]Lowkey: We used to play football outside in the park
[00:35.31]Logic: We used to dodge bullets outside in the dark
[00:38.49]Lowkey: I never prayed, I was told there isn't a god
[00:41.40]Logic: I prayed 5 times a day its like I lived in a mosque
[00:44.70]Lowkey: Me, I'm easy with a pint and some cricket to watch
[00:48.36]Logic: They sanctioned everything we got, so now it isn't a lot
[00:51.06]Lowkey: My mum and dad worked hard, always had employment
[00:55.05]Logic: My mom just left and my dad got poisoned
[00:58.26]I was young but I was told that the government did it
[01:00.87]Lowkey: From my heart I can say that I love being British
[01:04.89]I grew with 5 older brothers and sisters
[01:07.80]Logic: Yeah I had a lot of siblings but some have gone missing
[01:10.92]Now it's just me and my little sis
[01:13.05]Lowkey: Britain's got a lot of immigrants;they take our jobs everyday I swear I'm sick of it
[01:17.49]Logic: My uncle's trying to get to Britain quick
[01:19.59]Lowkey: I'm trying to find a job
[01:21.00]Logic: Me I'm still illiterate
[01:22.26]Lowkey: every 2 weeks I'm signing on
[01:23.97]Logic: we only had school a little bit
[01:26.34]Lowkey: I got kicked out of school very early, labeled as an idiot
[01:30.51]Logic: Before my uncle left us, he gave me his gun
[01:33.45]Lowkey: my girl just gave me a son
[01:35.82]Logic: You see its hot where I live, every day I bake in the sun
[01:39.33]Lowkey: Its cold where I live so I read every page of the Sun
[01:43.47]And I'm getting mad, with what I look at and read
[01:46.44]Logic: I just met a couple elders that are good on their Deen.
[01:49.41]Lowkey: My dad told me joining an army would be good for the peace
[01:52.89]Logic: I started meeting, now I'm training with the mujahedeen
[01:56.31]Because I've heard that the westerners are coming with bombs
[01:59.34]Lowkey: I spent months in the regiment training up to be shot
[02:02.70]Logic: But this is my land, my country, ill defend it till I pass
[02:05.97]Lowkey: I just got the message that they're sending me to Iraq
[02:09.81]Pain is the same fam, its all relative
[02:12.87]They cried the same tears, you cried for your relatives
[02:16.08]And one way or another, my brother we're all relatives
[02:19.59]Home is where the heart is, yeah that's where it is (2X)
[02:33.30]Lowkey: Now I'm in the south of Iraq, it's a smelly place
[02:38.97]I don't know who to trust, everybody's got a hairy face
[02:42.18]Logic: And Bazara's a scary place, its worse than it used to be
[02:45.42]They're dropping bombs everyday
[02:46.71]Lowkey: Even little boys s***t at me
[02:48.69]Logic: I s***t at white faces, and any green suit I see
[02:51.81]Lowkey: Every regiment's lost a couple of troops;we've lost 2 or 3
[02:54.81]Logic: I still go to pray in the same place the mosque used to be
[02:58.08]Lowkey: I see little kids starving to death, with no food to eat,
[03:01.77]But an orders an order, we've got to clean the city up
[03:04.77]Logic: they see how we're suffering, and still they don't pity us
[03:08.19]They s***t us every day tomorrow's probably me
[03:10.65]Lowkey: We're trying to help these bastards, but its like they don't want to be free
[03:14.13]Logic: Yeah these people don't know what freedom is
[03:16.65]Lowkey: I saw my colleague R**e a woman against her will, but I didn't agree with it
[03:20.94]Logic: I shot a soldier in the face and then I had to run quick
[03:23.82]Lowkey: My sergeant got shot in his face by some dumb young kid,
[03:27.66]Now I just want to go home that's where my heart is
[03:30.45]Logic: My heart is in Basra, and never will I part it
[03:34.02]Lowkey: this wars going nowhere, tell me why did we start this
[03:37.20]Logic: I'm fighting regardless till I'm resting where Allah is
[03:40.29]Lowkey: come to think of it, I should have never joined the army
[03:43.77]And when I think about it, I don't hate these Iraqi's
[03:46.41]Logic: Yeah bullets flying past me, I'm scared but I cant run,
[03:50.37]I take my sister upstairs and get my uncle's old gun
[03:53.31]Lowkey: Don't know if it's terrorists or just some civilians,
[03:56.31]But I've been told to neutralize the threat up in that building
[03:59.40]Logic: I see the soldiers they're about to pass, I take my pistol out and blast
[04:03.24]Lowkey: A bullet wizzes by my face and tears my friends mouth apart,
[04:06.45]I saw red, and starting shooting to make em all dead
[04:09.63]Logic: I tried to guard my sister, but a bullet hit her forehead
[04:12.63]Lowkey: I ran up the steps to see if I buried them all
[04:15.69]But all I saw was
[04:16.64]Logic: my little sister dead on the floor
[04:18.95]Our pain is the same, but its all relative
[04:22.62]They cried the same tears, you cried for your relatives
[04:25.83]And one way or another, my brother we're all relatives
[04:29.28]Home is where the heart is, yeah that's where it is