Colours
International Criminal
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Colours – i bet you're thinking that they don't matter But everywhere you look you see the rainbow shattered White or black nail your colours to the mast The dead hand of the past is gonna smack ya in the ass The people that we stole my whole country from were red But we gave them smallpox blankets and now they’re mostly dead And we sleep in our beds with the blood that we shed Painting crimson nightmares in our pink and white heads My teeth ain’t all that white just like my soul ain’t only white Half my piano keys are white but then the other half are black And THAT is the half that my hands like to smash With my fingertips stained brown and black from nicoteine and hash That’s the last vice to go I’m taking it slow and low, slow and low Cause that IS the tempo And here I go again getting off of the subject I digress and you love it you can’t get enough of it If not then why the hell are you still here? still lending me both your ears Waiting on the next rhyme hangin on on every line Everytime I put my pen to paper which is off-white by the way cause I recycle by the way and man before it’s too late Restate your assumptions cause the world is turnin grey and it’s getting greyer every single fucking day Green’s for the unclean unless you’re talkin about money ‘Cause there’s always a way to buy your way to somewhere sunny Vacation in some developing nation where the natives are probably some shade of brown And dying in deprevation While you sit your white ass on their white palmy beach Trying to attain that perfect tan that’s always just out of reach Cause you’re a leech and leeches are black like the black of your heart Where your soul used to before you sold it to put black oil in your car Black oil for green money Black oil for green money Green trees for black roads Starvin black children with swolen tummies That’s funny cause africa’s filled with yellow gold Every single colour of the rainbow is a metaphor For rich and for poor for peace and for war Not anymore, we can’t ignore A metaphor Now I live in Spain, and it don’t rain on the plains And half the coast is ruined just so they can entertain German tourists and the forests were cut down long ago All those green trees destroyed to build a bunch of boats to fill with gold Purple robed kings and queen’s plundered foreign shores To pay for their wars turnin once rich countries poor Whoring for an empire grey smoke from the fires Who knows how many dead screaming burning on the pyres Yellow like a coward mellow hiding in their towers Devoured by corrupting power in their final hour Sour goes my mouth when I think of all the hopes Of those poor people dashed and don’t forget the pope With that stupid white beanie what the hell is he hiding? Maybe a botched lobotomy – that’s why he’s always smiling How else could he stand the red blood on his hands Of the millions killed through history buy that fucking church man?! Black oil for green money Green trees for black roads Starvin black children with swolen tummies That’s funny cause africa’s filled with yellow gold Every single colour of the rainbow is a metaphor For rich and for poor for peace and for war Not anymore, we can’t ignore A metaphor Black oil for green money Green trees for black roads Starvin black children with swolen tummies That’s funny cause africa’s filled with yellow gold Every single colour of the rainbow is a metaphor For rich and for poor for peace and for war Not anymore, we can’t ignore A metaphor
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Written by: STEVEN ALEXANDER JAMES, DAVID ROWNTREE, DAMON ALBARN, SHANE HILL, SIMON PATRICK JAMES, MICHELE MARIE DREES, DAVE LEONARD MARKEE
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