lirik lagu samiir saunders - capitalism is killing my loved ones
[verse 1]
when the warmongers came to the shores
they were not looking for death, they were looking for theft
and death was just a price they could more than accept
and life an inconvenient but necessary vessel for wealth
and the wealth is just negative debt
it can’t exist without poverty to balance the cheque
coz if the baseline was everybody housed and fed
then unemployment would be freedom, not a visceral threat
i’ve been kept in a cyclical stress most my life
watched my parents work themselves into sickness and debt
i watched my uncle on dialysis, his kidneys a wreck
with his mind still on the grind, ’til he withered to death
i’ve watched friends lose their homes to the system’s neglect
i’ve seen how dreams fall to pieces, we give more than we get
and even if you think you’ve made it, you’re not free from the threat
because the money means nothing when you’ve burned the sky blood red
[hook]
i couldn’t save anything, i couldn’t save anyone
even if i gave everything, it’s still not enough
i couldn’t save anything, i couldn’t save anyone
even if i gave everything
[verse 2]
we chose a warm house and an empty fridge
coz my mum’s too old to face the cold, yeah, it k!lls
now it’s 6pm, i haven’t eaten but i’m sick
of toast and b~tter, so cornmeal porridge is the meal
water it down, my lover doesn’t like it when i name this ‘gruel’
they’re grateful that i made them food
said, “it’s delicious from the all~spice, cloves, and bay leaf
so ‘gruel’ is dismissive in its connotation”, hmm
well, they’re right, words matter like black spite
and black matter’s massive yet unseen by the eye
a scream in the night, black hole, deep as a knife
black ink deemed illegible and left from the light
words matter like the murder of chris kaba
extrajudicial k!lling, he’s labelled a gang member
as if that made it any less violent or justified homicide
“martyn blake: not guilty” says the trial
words matter, and i’m sick of the lies
if you’re criminalised, then you can die, and no one bats an eye
who’s a villain? who’s a victim? the law decides
a politician calls it war when it’s genocide
a journalist reports “terrorist base”
an economist describes it as a “terrible place”
it’s a third~world country at the end of the day
we expect death, disease, and perpetual pain, hmm
words matter more than the truth
you can take the slaughter as proof
the new normal is ignoring the news
to reinforce the delusion that people aren’t human
i see its influence, we speak as if fluent
but still evade nuance, it’s not a game you won
the same intrusion that tames revolution
murders you slowly to keep you consuming
[verse 3]
capitalism is k!lling my loved ones
capitalism is k!lling my love
capitalism is k!lling my loved ones
capitalism is k!lling my love
preventable illness k!lls my loved ones
preventable illness k!lls my love
preventable illness k!lls my loved ones
preventable illness k!lls my love
food insecurity k!lls my loved ones
food insecurity k!lls my love
food insecurity k!lls my loved ones
food insecurity k!lls my love
dehumanisation k!lls my loved ones
dehumanisation k!lls my love
dehumanisation k!lls my loved ones
dehumanisation k!lls my love
[outro]
the government made cuts to the nhs for ten years, then the global pandemic hit
the developers chose the cheap thermal cladding, then it went up in flames
the oil companies paid to silence the scientists, but the world kept melting
is it social murder or simply incompetence? does it matter if the end is the same?
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