We Live Here

Free school dinners for the poor Pizza with a side of misery Teachers said when I leave No one here will miss me Didn't know I was a sinner But if they say so, well I must be Big lips, wide nose God knows no one will trust me Mum don't look like me But thank God she still loved me Neighbours called me nigga Told me "go back to my own country" Said, since we arrived This place has got so ugly But this is my fucking country And it's never been fucking lovely We didn't appear out of thin air We live here We didn't appear out of thin air We live here Give it the bigun 'round town Have a drink and puff your chest out Not a racist, you're just proud Why should you be left out? The fairies get a march And the nig-nogs get a month We've got the right to vote I mean, what more could we want? Free to go where I like If I look like I belong If not, fuck off Go on boy, move along Remember Stephen Lawrence He too was free to roam Eighteen years old at the bus stop Murdered on his way home We didn't appear out of thin air We live here We didn't appear out of thin air We live here The first time I was called nigga I was about seven or eight years old I was playing across the street And one of the older kids called me it I went home for bathtime a little later And asked my mum what it meant My white mum She told me it was a bad word We didn't appear out of thin air We live here We didn't appear out of thin air, mate We fucking live here, you cunt