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New Britain

from Small Axe by Verbal Terrorists

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lyrics

Chorus
New Labour, new danger in this cruel landscape
Mind-states never changing thanks to the newspapers
New legislation controlling the nation
New race hate campaigns and it’s blatant
Inter-religious relations are facing
New tribulations I’m here to save it
And teach through my true spitting
Welcome to the streets of this New Britain

Verse 1
Was it malicious intent that got innocent men
Shot on sight, forgot the right to a fair trial
No forthcoming apologies just square denial
From the police chiefs, honestly
Just ‘cos he looked suspicious and incensed
And an immigrant, insufficient incentive
Not a probably retaliation is imminent
Sickened with the situation, it’s blatant
That these incidents only encourage more kids
To turn terrorist and isolate Asian communities
Through intimidation and shit, yo it’s making me sick
Martial law brought into partial force
Is this the way that we live? Martyrs are all made
By brainwashing the kids with distorted persepectives
Why would British leeds kids believe this?
Mind-states infected with red-mist and grievances
You see it’s the anti-Eastern feeling
And all the resentment shown by local residents
Not to mention the covert condolence of the American President
Racism still boils under the surface there’s still purges that hurt kids
It’s just not as readily evident yo we’re steadily deading it
But the papers are penning shit about immigrants
And little kids are led to believe the propaganda of idiots
Racial hatred is hideous but it seems to be indigenous

Chorus

Verse 2
It’s like glorification the laws in the making
They’re running the government like the walls gonna cave in
I’m sort of amazed when these laws go through
‘Cos they’re treating the street peeps like war-zone troops
Where’s our rights at? I write tracks recite facts
You can try and fight terror but it’s only gonna fight back
So how you gonna kill a methodology
The real evil is dictating your foreign policy
Mr. “Witch Project” sucking up to “shrubbery”
Democracy’s a farce and it’s daylight robbery
Some time soon I’ll be taking it back making a stand
For the mans who be playing life properly
But they’ll get you if they can like in Manchester
Hatching up some piece of bullshit to try and capture ya
Innocent citizens demonised in the press
Under arrest for a crime that was never a threat
Thought police coming to a building on your street
I know it’s the wrong approach it’s only bringing more beef
They make us scared so we let them take our rights away
Get prepared I ain’t giving up the fight today
Got too many sectarians in the left wing
Parliamentarians ain’t rebelling ‘cos they’ll get skinned
It’s all the work of internal forces
Abusing their powering and use of certain sources

Chorus

Verse 3
Cartoons caused controversy in all honesty
That act was derogatory but the rash fast backlash
Was in fact such a mockery I hate the brash twats
But free speech has to be legitimate policy
It bothers me that the rightist writers
Latch on to the slightest sign of divide ‘cos
They’re hyping this into a war of 2 sides
With Islam verses democracy
The Muslim moderates, they want a stop to it
But the media spin-doctorship
Warps and distorts the thoughts of the populace
Cos on our tv screens all we ever seem to see is
The views of extremists so the BNP believe it
Is a war of cultures imminent?
East versus West and everybody’s getting militant
Please don’t buy into it, ‘cos this should be a war of reason versus ignorance

Chorus

credits

from Small Axe, released August 9, 2008
Lyrics: Drop Dead Fred, Nobull
Production: Drop Dead Fred

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Verbal Terrorists are a politically motivated hip hop group from Newcastle, UK. We are independent activists who seek to challenge the hegemonic culture and ideology through music and direct action!

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