[Verse 1: Wretch 32]
In all honestly, all we've got is love, we can only pay you in visits
Family orientated, I'll never stray from my siblings
Heard some war stories when uncle came from the prison
He was good at making money, but bad at making decisions
Mummy's got her hand in the pardner to make a shilling
She'll have to put an arm and a leg in to make a difference
Daddy's out chasing the women breeding the village
Breaking all kinda records to place the blame on the Guinness
When my mother asked, it was never up for discussion
Some lessons learnt have different meanings for others
Black History Month where they taught me that I was nothing
In the school of hard knocks where I had to fight for my cousin
Roll up your sleeves, work twice as hard just to please
Don't beg nobody fi eat and never chat to police
And on Black Boy Lane, I was caught on my own
He told me go back to my country, I thought I was home
Guess I was wrong
[Chorus: Benjamin A.D.]
Really, I just wanna spread love
Know it's been a minute, still think about us
Always on a wave 'cause it gets me through
Really, I'm just tryna stay up, yeah
Really, I just wanna spread love
Know it's been a minute, still think about us
Always on a wave 'cause it gets me through
[Post-Chorus: Wretch 32]
When all is said and done, don't want the baddest bitches
I just really wanna move my address, innit
Want my forty acres with my palace, innit
They don't care about you when you Black and British
Course I got a knife, you don't cut me no slack
Wanna touch the dreads, you don't know me like that
Now you colourblind, you don't notice I'm Black
So we stay trapping cah my homie mind trapped
[Verse 2: Wretch]
Granny came here to build a future based on pure hope
But the road weren't paved with gold, it was paved with "Go home"
Imagine being a doctor and they've doctored your role
You've got the qualification, they ain't offering though
You came here to seek employment, didn't come here to clean the toilets
Money haffi mek, now we're running, we're seeing boydem
My cousin as well, even my auntie's on bail
Fuck you, my uncle from hell
That's cause you keep touching all the family that's under your spell
Everyone just turns a blind eye when they know you need help
That's Black and British when you come from a suffering world
Stop saying that's how he is
If that's the case, he shouldn't be sharing beds with the kids
You put our feels to the side, bills to the side
Out of sight, out of mind
Is my dad still alive?
Step-dad arrives
Devil in disguise, Tina
Wanna ask your partner how it feels to be Ike?
You put on a brave face, it's the bravest I've ever seen
Got a jester for a king and you still a queen
Lying when they ask why I'm crying, I kept it in
Now I'm grown it's Game of Thrones, if I catch him it's guillotine (I swear)
[Verse 3: Little Simz]
I swear I'd never make my mother cry
She taught me how to make a bed out of a bunch of lies
And how a man's supposed to wear his tie
I was twelve when the world let you down a dozen times
When you say Black and British, what is it that comes to mind?
How do you progress in life when you're stuck behind?
I had an attitude with my teachers at school
But soon as I got home, I knew that tone could never fly
Raising a teenage girl, no help, no channel of support
No fairy, no tales, barely could afford
No wishing, no wells, no hands was avail'
With the hands we was dealt
[Chorus: Benjamin A.D.]
Really, I just wanna spread love
Know it's been a minute, still think about us
Always on a wave 'cause it gets me through
Really, I'm just tryna stay up, yeah
Really, I just wanna spread love
Know it's been a minute, still think about us
Always on a wave 'cause it gets me through (Gets me, gets me)
[Post-Chorus: Wretch 32]
When all is said and done, don't want the baddest bitches
I just really wanna move my address, innit
Want my forty acres with my palace, innit
They don't care about you when you Black and British
Course I got a knife, you don't cut me no slack
Wanna touch the dreads, you don't know me like that
Now you colourblind, you don't notice I'm Black
So we stay trapping cah my homie mind trapped
[Outro]
There's an expression about fighting fire with fire
You're a loser by doing that
I know, I know, I know
It's like what is going on in South Africa
But for me, I know there is a day, and that day's not far, that I must die
And if I die today, adjust it
Because as long as I know I died to let someone else live
