Three Rivers

[00:20.38] Look, imagine an island where the party never ends
[00:23.45] Where it's less about money and it's more about friends
[00:25.92] Where the vibes can't done
[00:27.32] It's less about fundin' and and more about fun
[00:30.08] Tropical sun, this life in the '60s comin' from the Caribbean
[00:34.19] You know Ian, Delroy, Vivian, Winston
[00:37.50] Who got drafted to England
[00:39.23] Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton
[00:41.86] To say they're the life of the party, you're wrong
[00:43.96] My Jamaicans the entire party, you can't see?
[00:47.59] Big Notting Hill carni, you can't see?
[00:49.82] And the ride's fiber glass, G, you want see?
[00:52.28] Imagine a place wherе you raise your kids
[00:54.28] The only place you livе says you ain't a Brit
[00:57.06] They're deportin' our people and it makes me sick
[00:59.43] 'Cause they was broken by the country that they came to fix
[01:02.03] It's like
[01:02.74] They came on the invitation of the British Government
[01:05.17] The passports were stacked indefinitely to remain
[01:08.55] But for some who were children then, that was a false promise
[01:12.69] Thirty-seven years of paying taxes and I
[01:15.08] Got a letter saying I was an illegal immigrant
[01:17.53] I came to England at the age of
[01:19.86] Ten and I've lived here all my life
[01:23.10] Look, imagine a world that's flawed and full of evil
[01:25.87] Where dictators and leaders are persecutin' your people
[01:28.78] The bodies of the innocent are pilin' to the steeples
[01:31.31] The ironic part is they're preyin' on the feeble
[01:34.07] That's life in the 90s, you're Eastern European
[01:36.10] And you seein' people dyin' 'cause they're fightin' for their freedom
[01:39.25] They show you violence for havin' a voice
[01:41.24] You move out with your kids in hope of havin' a choice
[01:44.25] Life throws you a spanner, you can't handle the pain
[01:46.87] So you gamble and you drink and then you gamble again
[01:49.57] You argue with your wife and then you sleep on the couch
[01:52.04] You hit your children, then start freezin' 'em out
[01:54.57] You try and work things out, but it's never the same
[01:57.07] All the women in your household are livin' afraid
[01:59.88] When you look into the mirror you're reminded again
[02:02.23] That you've become the dictator you were fightin' against
[02:04.83] It's like
[02:06.08] We're fightin' for, fightin' for our mother
[02:08.76] And then we, we, we are fighting for our homes, fighting for our... for our own...
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[02:25.63] Look, imagine a world that's fucked and untrue
[02:29.27] Where the many pay a price for the few
[02:31.62] And every day the sun rises a little later
[02:34.16] That's how it is when your oppressor is your liberator
[02:36.80] That's right now, livin' in the Middle East
[02:39.97] Praise Allah for the peace
[02:42.03] Death from a sky littered with stars
[02:44.06] You run away with your kids so you can give them a chance
[02:46.76] But your asylum has got you in a different war
[02:49.31] Because the British wanna know what you're livin' here for
[02:51.99] We rely on migration more than ever before
[02:54.23] They're key workers, but they couldn't even get in the door
[02:57.22] When you're at Heaven's gates, what you tellin' the Lord?
[02:59.87] You wouldn't even let a kid into some steadier shores
[03:02.42] That's a life they may never afford
[03:04.13] Surely you would wanna give your
[03:05.64] People chances that were better than yours?
[03:07.43] No?
[03:08.09] Ten years of conflict
[03:09.79] And twelve-thousand children have been killed or injured
[03:13.29] The children here are just a tiny fraction of the
[03:15.86] Estimated six million in need of emergency humanitarian assistance
[03:20.46] And still perhaps as many as three million no longer live in their own home
[03:24.13] With up to two million children no longer attending school
[03:27.44] The opportunities of this generation
[03:29.64] Have been changed forever by this conflict
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[04:13.62] I went to silence when I need to know who the, who the fuck I was, bro
[04:19.07] Like, I won't hear anyone else, shut everyone else out
[04:23.68] So I could just hear myself, bro
[04:25.81] You know what I'm sayin'?
[04:26.54] 'Cause we live in this world, yeah
[04:28.60] You stand still, the way the tides set up
[04:32.37] It will take you away from yourself, you feel me?
[04:35.37] So then I was like, "Aight, cool"
[04:39.87] But I had to get silent
[04:41.78] But it's not like man's goin' against the tide
[04:44.33] 'Cause goin' against the tide still makes it about them
[04:47.00] Still makes it about the poison that you've internalized, that's in your mind, you feel me?
[04:52.63] It's like "Bro, why am I in this water?"
[04:55.01] Man, this isn't even water, it doesn't even like me, 'cause it's not even for me
[04:58.33] It's not takin' me where I wanna go, it's not takin' me where I wanna go
[05:00.84] It's who, who the fuck I am, bro
[05:03.25] What I'm sayin' is like the tide will tell me that bein', bein' black is a obstacle
[05:08.85] Know what I'm sayin'?
[05:10.91] I just... switch rumors, bro
[05:14.76] I say bein' black is a asset, I am who I am because I'm black
[05:19.38] And I love everythin' about it, you feel me?
[05:23.97] And that's who the fuck I am
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