DEAR IMMIGRATION

[Intro]

Aight, cool, I'll just read it out to you then

Yeah, I'm listening, go ahead

[Verse]

Dear immigration, I'm writing you this letter as a part of my application

My lawyer said if I give you an explanation of my situation and shed a bit of light on the shit I'm facing

It might help with my case

Sometimes, I think it was the heavens that was testing me

You took my rights and took whatever was left of me

I looked to the sky every night and looked for the recipe

While you send letters tryna threaten me about arresting me

You give me a stomachache

You made me feel like a fugitive and a runaway

I hate you for putting away my mother away in Holloway

You made me look in the mirror in horror

You took my tomorrows

You made me despise the person standing front of me

Today, my little brother said he wants to sell drugs and I hate you for that

I really blame you for that

How was he born in the country and still he need papers and that?

You made him wanna sell drugs and he's so much greater than that

I came here in 2005 when I was just nine

Just a child who really needed his mum at the time

I had no idea that she was on drugs at the time

She had no papers, so she couldn't get jobs at the time

But she wanted a better life for her son at the time

So she did whatever she could do to find funds at the time

I won't sit here and lie, some of the time

I wish it was different and it weren't how it was at the time

But I was only nine and my friends had guns at the time

And they was kidnapping children for fun at the time

I want you to know, since I was nine, I've felt like a crime

I used to imagine you coming for me every day of my life

Like a movie in my mind and play that shit on rewind

I used to argue with my teachers all of the time

Tell them, "I sit where I wanna"

But the truth is I just needed a window to climb

For my peace of mind

How do you sleep at night?

You told my mum to give me up, she took me away to hide, um

Look me in the eyes and say you won't do the same for your child

Furthermore, I'll never get the chance to look you in the eyes

You're not even real, but you wanna make me feel like I'm the lie

We used to wake up, hit the bottle and see what job we could find

Working thirty pound a day till 12 in the night

Most times, bossman would just all of the Ps and then hide

All you did was get us hooked on all these drugs to get us by

I wish you knew what it was like at the bottom of the pile

You took away my smile, I was just a fucking child

Now my tears run miles, like the River fucking Nile

Dear immigration, you are vile and you can stick that on my file

I ain't begging you for nothing, I don't know why I'm on trial

For these are my tribulations, these are my tribulations

All I needed was a SIM card and a heart to make it out the simulation

These are my tribulations, dear immigration

I hope you take all of these facts into consideration when you decide on my case

I don't mind what you say

It's been a very long ride and I'm tired

Yours sincerely, BERWYN the Great

[Outro]

Um, what you think?

Um, yeah, I mean it's good, it's powerful, I

I'm not sure if we can sent that, BERWYN

And I think we have to rewrite some of it