We'll Never Know

Let me start with the basic
Structures of a Western country
Imperialism, it's all about the money
While we moan and complain
When it's not sunny
Little kids hustle foods
Tryna fill their tummy's
And, every kid's seen a gun
When you go to places
Like Iraq and Afghanistan
While kids over here think
That shooting's fun
Kids over there shoot to protect their mums
And, over here, we can't claim real hardship
Trust me, we don't really know what hard is
A hard life, where your family is starving
A hard life
Where your family is killed by the army
A life where you're seen as a target
A life that you wish never started
But, they got big hearts, big smiles
And energy to make a change
I make music for them to play

I said we'll never know
Because the places we've grown
Ain't nothing like what they know
Cause we'll never know

Who little lad, know you're feeling sad
Trust me there'll be better
Days you never had
The pain you felt will never last
Try and say we ain't the same
Walkin' two different paths
Why must I hate? Turn on the
TV and just sit and laugh
But, that child'll never smile
He's lost his dad
Seein' foreign flags fly above his motherland
He's hearin' gunshots like shots
From your block when he bleeds
Do we not bleed the same blood?
There's no lovin' growin' up as cold thugs
Imagine growin' up where every sip of
Water makes you throw up
Where soldiers patrol every road
Throwin' stones
To protect your home, all alone
When there's no-one else
So they say we ain't relatives
Cause the difference in our melanin
As hell as being relevant, fuck it all
To hell with it
This evil has been spreading it
And, even if my death comes quick
I'll be fighting 'til the end of it

We live in a period where our
World has both the resources
The technology and the know-how
To end world poverty
But, unfortunately we also live in
A point in time
When at no other point in history
Has there been so much suffering

Cause we'll never know

Okay, let me make clear my position
I know your estate feels like shit to live in
And, watching mummy graft to
Keep bailiffs from ringing
Is enough to make you wanna hit
The block and start slingin'
I've been there, no gas
No electric to the kitchen
Fridge cuts off, defrosts and starts stinkin'
Whether Gorbals in Glasgow, Mumbai
Or Brixton may not be the same shit but
It is the same system
But, this is Britain as hard as
Some of us have it
We're still far better off than
Ninety-percent of the planet
And, that is what you learn
When you get to start traveling
Unraveling the bullshit that
They are babbling
So, this is for the nameless, faceless
Millions that die everyday
But don't even get a funeral
And, we tell ourselves because
Where they were born
They are less worth, less intelligent
Or beautiful
Well, I don't agree, they are you and me
And we are them, but we're too blind to see
While some have everything
They ain't got shit and, we tell ourselves
Well that's just how it is
There ain't enough to go around
On this abundant planet of course there is
It's just that some of us are ganit's
And, the habit's we developed
That are so far divorced from the source
We don't even stop to pause
At the destruction everyday
Of chunks of the human family
It's just normal insanity

I said we'll never know
(We'll never know, never know)
Because the places we've grown
(Places we've grown)
Ain't nothing like what they know
(Ain't nothing like ohh oh)
Cause we'll never know
(We'll never know, never know, never know)

I said we'll never know
(We'll never know, never know, never know)
Because the places we've grown
(Places we've grown)
Ain't nothing like what they know
(Ain't nothing like they know
Ain't nothing like) cause we'll never know