Double Standards (feat. Sampha) (Explicit)

Double Standards (feat. Sampha) (Explicit) - Ghetts/Sampha

Lyrics by：Emil Larbi/Justin Clarke-Samuel/Sampha Sisay

Produced by：EMIL/R-Kay

Da du du du du

Du da da da da da

Du

Du psh

Du du du hm

Du du du yeah

Check the foundations structural imbalance

Falling double standards I fell on my face

Hands in the rubble people walking over me

I was one of them and kept walking away

I kept walking away (away)

Away (away)

Away

I kept walking away (away)

Away (away)

Away

I kept walking away (uh)

Look around the world

All I see is double standards

A mum naming her son Muhammed is a madness

Jack's in the airport with **s in his baggage

And security are troublin' Muhammed 'bout a sandwich (uh)

I was on the phone with a pal of mine

They ask me why they helpin' Ukraine and not Palestine

And I replied brown skin we were so whitewashed

Laughin' at names we had problems pronouncin'

Kwame said his name was Jerome

And he's from the Caribbean just so people would leave alone

And I remember it was fufu and voodoo jokes

Until he found the same thing that gave Zulu's hope

Sarah's dad hates Blacks but her baby's mixed race

And all he's thinkin' is She may have been raped

Imagine bein' light skin but grandad's racist

And every time you're there you hear an African statement

Look around the world all I see is double standards

Even Mark Zuckerburg covers up his cameras

Steve Jobs never let his kids use an iPad

And my kids think that I'm bad mad

Nie had no TV until she was a grown up

I used to think what the ****

When she told us

The government have got us in a chokehold

A hero if I kill for my country

And a villain if I kill for my postcode

Only fightin' for my freedom if it comes to it

You got to use your brain before you put a gun to his

Had to lose my way before I understood the trip

The good die young

The cemetery's full of Should've beens

These days I'm doin' more and sayin' less

What's war

War's rich white men playin' chess

What for

Well it's all about the land they finesse

God made man and man made a mess (yes)

Check the foundations structural imbalance

Falling double standards

I fell on my face

Hands in the rubble

People walking over me

I was one of them and kept walking away

I kept walking away (away)

Away (away)

Away

I kept walking away (away)

Away (away)

Away

I kept walking away

They're givin' brothers life sentences for **s

While a paedophile would probably

Get less than twenty months

In the same court same day same judge

We only break the law

Because the law tries to break us

So how am I meant to be corrected

When they put my name and address in the papers

But a child molester's identity is protected

Is anyone addressin' these failures

I just spoke to my mum oh man

She said Police just killed another unarmed man

Everyone complains but nobody wan' go back home

It come like we don't love our land

Everyone's in Ghana in December

Come back home and start complainin' 'bout the weather

Raheem can score a hundred goals

But when he miss a penalty it's monkey jokes woah

And they got everybody clappin' for the NHS

But they don't wan' put no cash in the NHS

Soon it's gonna be What happened to the NHS

Politicians gettin' paid more than teachers

Satan gettin' praise more than Jesus

Most bad *****es ain't artists

But they still paid for they features

It's the realest comin' through the speakers

Yeezy's the only reason we wore Adidas

And I don't wear Balenciaga anymore

And now I've said it

Fashion Week probably won't have me seated

Deep it here's a likkle insight

Peep it there goes my invite

I preed it no one's speakin'

That's why I'm an outsider on the inside

I got beef with the HMRC

The tax man jacks man take half my P

I'm lookin' at the total blud can't you see

Every time I pay tax it's hard to breathe

I don't know if I'm paro' man

But I can talk about killings and ** dealings

But Black Rose is my only tune that's shadowbanned

The thing is they got us mixed up son

They want us to be like the slaves in the field

All we keep doin' is lookin' to the big house

That's not our aim that's not our purpose

Let's own the field turn our direction turn around

Let's look from their view

They see the land they see the world

All we kept they kept us

With the view lookin' at the big house

The house that master on we got the wrong world view