Relatives - LowKey, Logic

The views expressed on this track are not directly those of lowkey or logic,

were just drawing attention to the lifestyles that some people lead

I was born in Birmancy, one of the south parts

And I was born in Bazara, southside of Iraq

We used to play football outside in the park

We used to dodge bullets outside in the dark

I never prayed, I was told there isn’t a god

I prayed 5 times a day it’s like I lived in a mosque

Me, I’m easy with a pint and some cricket to watch

They sanctioned everything we got, so now it isn’t a lot

My mom and dad worked hard, always had employment

My mom just left and my dad got poisoned

I was young but I was told that the government did it

From my heart I can say that I love being British

I grew with 5 older brothers and sisters

Yeah I had a lot of siblings but some have gone missing

Now it’s just me and my little sis

Britain’s got a lot of immigrants;

they take our jobs everyday I swear I’m sick

of it

My Uncles trying to get to Britain quick

I’m trying to find a job

Me I’m still illiterate

every 2 weeks I’m signing on

we only had school a little bit

I got kicked out of school very early, labeled as an idiot

Before my uncle left us, he gave me his gun

my girl just gave me a son

You see it’s hot where I live, every day I bake in the sun

It’s cold where I live so I read every page to my son

And I’m getting mad, with what I look at and read

I just met a couple elders that.

My dad told me joining an army would be good for the peace

I started meeting, now I’m training with the mujahedeen

Because I’ve heard that the westerners are coming with bombs

I spent months in the regiment training up to be shot

But this is my land, my country, I’ll defend it till I pass

I just got the message that they’re sending me to Iraq

Our pain is the same, but it’s all relative

They cried the same tears, you cried for your relatives

And one way or another, my brother were all relatives

Home is where the heart is, yeah that’s where it is

Now I’m in the south of Iraq, it’s a smelly place

I don’t know who to trust, everybody’s got a hairy face

And Bazara’s a scary place, it’s worse than it used to be

They’re dropping bombs everyday

Even little boys shooting me

I shoot at white faces, and any green suit I see

Every regiment’s lost a couple of troops;

we’ve lost 2 or 3

I still go to pray in the same place the mosque used to be

I see little kids starving to death, with no food to eat,

But an orders an order, we’ve got to clean the city up

They see how we’re suffering, and still they don’t pity us

They shoot us every day tomorrow’s probably me

We’re trying to help these bastards, but it’s like they don’t want to be free

Yeah these people don’t know what freedom is

I saw my colleague rape a woman against her will, but I didn’t agree with it

I shot a soldier in the face, and then I hacked '.

Real quick

My sergeant got shot in his face by some dumb young kid,

Now I just want to go home that’s where my heart is

My heart is in Bazara, and never will I part it

this wars going nowhere, tell me why did we start it'

I’m fighting regardless till I’m resting where Allah is

Come to think of it, I should have never joined the army

And when I think about it, I don’t hate these Iraqi’s

Yeah bullets flying past me, I’m scared but I can’t run,

I take my sister upstairs and get my uncles old gun

Don’t know if it’s terrorists or just some civilians,

But I’ve been told to neutralize the threat up in that building

I see the soldiers they’re about to pass, I take my pistol out and blast

A bullet wizzes by my face and tears my friends mouth apart,

I saw red, and starting shooting to make em all dead

I tried to guard my sister, but a bullet hit her forehead

I ran up the steps to see if I buried them all

But all I saw was my little sister dead on the floor

Our pain is the same, but it’s all relative

They cried the same tears, you cried for your relatives

And one way or another, my brother were all relatives

Home is where the heart is, yeah that’s where it is