Lowkey | Neoliberalism Kills People (Acoustic) | featuring Mai Khalil and Valeria Kurbatova
a/political label live session recording of 'Neoliberalism Kills People'
Lyrics
How can I do a fire in the booth, when I'm trying just to maintain
And since June don't hear the word fire in the same way
Heard screams, splutters and them gasping for air
That’s not bars in a booth it’s so hard to compare
If I use fire as metaphor
Does that disrespect the people that are never more?
How does that bomb sound sound to those that bled in war that we never saw?
Remember when they settled scores with metal swords like Skeletor
Chinese made gunpowder, Nobel invented dynamite
They say the guilt in his mind compelled him to design the prize
We know what Einstein's mind was like
How many geniuses we never knew that were deprived of life?
I can't philosophise on horrifying flames
We don’t have to apologise or qualify our pain
Degrenfellise our loved ones of the colonisers name
Should we let the corporate media lobotomise our brains
You are beautiful, no matter how this life disfigures you
You’re beautiful even if that image you emulate isn't you
I don’t know if history is linear or cyclical
But know I’m ridiculed for making invisibles visible
That's why Plato said banish poets from the republic
‘Cause they know that we can shake the social system and disrupt it
The land of liberty, they tell us leave it or lump it
When Trump comes to the country we hope he chokes on his crumpet
Before we sink in the ocean, consider this as an omen
Natures blessings aren't ours just ‘cause we think that we own them
Never think that you're broken, or think that you're no-one
Remember a rope is strong because of strings interwoven
Would they love you more if you mock the people that you're from
Self-orientalise and believe that you belong
Overcompensate and propagate the image of the imbecile
Not uninvolved though you're further from the killing field
Take solace in the fact there's always cracks in the monolith
Now we're practically lobbing bricks like Asterix and Obelix
Distracted with gossip it's twisted news an interlude to adverts no hidden truths to listen to it's pitiful
Rosa Luxemburg gave us this simple truth
You won't feel your chains till the day you begin to move
He photographed a corpse and they flung him in the cage
Those that signed off on the cladding are still receiving their wage
Helicopters hovered close, pictures for the front page
Tried to speak all I really felt deep was numb rage
How could they see this pain at such a young age
Leaning out the window, screaming for help but none came
If it bleeds it leads, trauma tourists they gravitate
Shock doctrine in effect, disaster capitalists salivate
Privatisation, deregulation and austerity
To zero hour contracts, exploitation and precarity
Adults didn't make it, children to be fostered
Saved pennies on the block, dropped 20 million on the opera
We see through your cold plans, your programme is done
We don't want a Prime Minister that holds hands with Trump
We don't want DJs doing shows on military compounds
Can't trivialise fire or hear any more bomb sounds
How can I smile when I know the remains are still not found
And echoing in my mind is exactly how the sobs sound
They say we're criminals for the syllables and stanzas
When they subsidise the killers tools, the pillagers and bankers
Who are the engines of history, people like me and you
Who got massacred for the right to vote at Peterloo
It was imagineers, the poets and the artists
The miners, Tolpuddle Martyrs, William Cuffay and the chartists
Rebel and resist even through something small
Create windows with words and mirrors where once were walls
Manure contributes to the beauty of a rose
Why can't we accept our pain as something that helps us grow
They wonder why songs that make you cry are more moving
‘Cause crying's the only thing that we were born doing
They tell us tea is tradition to the English
When I look around this island not a tea plantation in it
Earl Gray gave 20 million to the slave traders
Multi-polar world now the Indians are space raiders
Freedom to be even or merely alienate labour
Freedom for fossil fuellers to desecrate and invade nature
Albert was an immigrant, Prince Phillip is an immigrant
Were the Celts, Normans and the Anglo-Saxons English, then?
The words Sugar, Cotton and Rice come from Arabic
Now we import democracy to civilise the Saracens
Analysing planets when this back water was wilderness
It seems we're still obsessed with immortality like Gilgamesh
Pessimism of intellect, optimism of will
Wear the skin of their victims its syndrome buffalo bill
In times of permanent war there is always someone to kill
But when life and death are virtual almost nothing is real
As part of the Truth to Power series, we will also be releasing a set of a/political label sessions with live performances with Lowkey and some of our guests.
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Literally my favorite track from the album,especially these verses hit me hard "Before we sink in the ocean, consider this as a omen Nature's blessings aren't ours just cause we think that we own them." "Freedom to be even or merely alienate labour Freedom for fossil fuellers to desecrate and invade nature." "They say we're criminals for the syllables and stanzas When they subsidise the killers tools, the pillagers and bankers."
@hgewhewhewdhewr3142
2 жыл бұрын
Mine too. I love this bar too "trauma tourists they gravitate Shock doctrine in effect, disaster capitalists salivate"
"Albert was an immigrant, Phillip is an immigrant Were the Celts, Normans and the Anglo-Saxons English, then?" Powerful stuff as always. Are we going to get an unplugged vol.2?
Can see the harp player has tears on her cheek, shows how powerful the lyrics is.
I don't listen to music, but my days, lowkey blows me away. High level at what he does. Authentic to say least.
This man is truth in the the from of hip hop god bless u Dennis you really r doing Gods work
Karim may!!!!❤
Amazing, can relate to the self-orientalisation smh great message
Such a unique word
Love and solidarity
I wish he had a podcast
@apoliticalorg
2 жыл бұрын
Just follow Lowkey on social media to keep up with his podcasts.
@antony558
2 жыл бұрын
As well as these on a/political he also has a podcast on mintcast which is definitely worth listening to. I listen to it on spotify
Great stuff, glad I found it. No more austerity. No more excuses for wars.
All of these performances have been incredible! I love what you're doing
May is a word derived by god to help the mentally disabled to pass their test. It was put there to help you disbeleievrs!!!!❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Powerful text beautifully delivered. Thanks for sharing! I hope many people hear your message and let it inform them as to how they should act.
Today!!!!!!!
May and the children
May
May.
Karim are 19s able to check back everything before we die?! The children!!
Or the covenant
Just ask him in alyuh minds!!!! May he be destroyed mankind may fuh the children sakes and isa sake and everyone since the first creation, may.
Karim calamity...mishap and may is the same thing
Karim the UN should ask god if they could get a covenant and see!!? But he said they can get forgiveness!! But they should still ask him!!! May UN
If them gul wah marry send them!!!?
Karim they should ask god ...incase I am greedy!!!
Karim the children wah ask god for the covenant and see 8f we give we it?
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Just ask god!!!
Karim just ask god I can form a covenant !!! Rothshcild!!! For everyone to go jannah and the bilderberg group!!!
2+2=4
Then MAY he be destroyed: Can I marry them gul to save the world please!?
Can I marry them gul them and form the covenant for everyone to go jannah? ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
All alyuh have to do mankind is talk to God.
Can I marry them gul and form the covenant for everyone to go jannah?❤
@trinigamer595
9 ай бұрын
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Can I marry them gul them to save the world❤❤❤❤❤ I could marry them and form the covenant. Everyone would go jannah❤.
Can u plz plz PLZ 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼give us a GREAT ASSANGE 'ANTHEM'... Make it catchy... Yknow somtin a bit “free Mandela“ like....????..... I just think its well well worth a try ☺️💜😉☮️
@cheesepuff455
2 жыл бұрын
A reworded version of the track 'Free Nelson Mandela' 'Free Palestina' Free-ee Free-ee Free-ee Free Palestina 73 Seven three years all forced to flee No more home no more soveriegnty Bodies abused but their minds are free Are you so blinded that you cannot see I say free-ee free-ee Free Palestina We're screaming at you through the bullshit screen Free-ee free-ee Free Palestina They pleaded their cases to the UNSC Standing alone against a brutal army Are you so blind that you cannot see The bombed out homes burning olive trees Are you so deaf that you cannot hear The mothers cries screaming out their pleas Free-ee free-ee Free Palestina 54 Fifty four years occupied territories Are you still so blind or refusing to see Are you still so deaf or refusing to hear Are you still so dumb or refusing speak Join us as we say Free-ee free-ee Free Palestina We're telling you now time to set them free We say Free-ee free-ee free-ee Free Palestina We're telling you set them free-ee Free free free free Freeeee-ee freeeeee-ee Free Palestina
@apoliticalorg
2 жыл бұрын
Watch the last five mins of this interview kzread.info/dash/bejne/onWjwbiMdZC9k9o.html
@flowerpower8418
2 жыл бұрын
@@apoliticalorg can't wait 😉 A million Thankyous to you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
If you a non beliver and want to see if I can convert you just reply!❤ if we bith come to the truth of mass gencoide then we.could .spread it❤
Karim I can marry then gul to save the world once I marry them and nato regresses
Karim the belivers and the non belivers can mass genoicde with me forneveryone to go jannah !!!now!!! Just ask him in yall minds adults and let us save the children tonite and ourselves please. Peacefully quick death...just ask him in yall minds....my vast welath easy life the children UN!!!!!!!!!!!!❤🎉
Can I marry them gul and form the covenant for non belivers to go jananh please!!! My vast welath....just ask him in yall minds and be muslim 99 percent else Jon belivers will burn!❤
Alyuh could save the world UN and yallselves from the hellfire and war just give me a covenant!!!! Ask allah in yall minds...I could just get a work!!! Np?
May he be destroyed