Where You From
Riz Ahmed
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They ever ask you "Where you from?" Like, "Where you really from?" The question seems simple but the answer's kinda long I could tell 'em Wembley but I don't think that's what they want But I don't wanna tell 'em more 'cause anything I say is wrong Britain's where I'm born and I love a cup of tea and that But tea ain't from Britain, it's from where my DNA is at And where my genes are from That's where they make my jeans and that Then send them over to NYC, that's where they stack the P's and that Skinheads meant I never really liked the British flag And I only got the shits when I went back to Pak And my ancestors' Indian but India was not for us My people built the West, we even gave the skinheads swastikas Now everybody everywhere want their country back If you want me back to where I'm from then bruv I need a map Or if everyone just gets their shit back then that's bless for us You only built a piece of this place bruv, the rest was us Maybe I'm from everywhere and nowhere No man's land, between the trenches Nothing grows there But it's fertilised by the brown bodies Fought for you in the war So when I spit a poppy grows there Yeah I make my own space in this business of Britishness Your question's just limiting, it's based on appearances Stop trying to make a box for us I'll make my own and bruck your poxy concept of us Very few fit these labels so I'm repping for the rest of us Who know that there's no place like home and that stretches us Who code switch so don't piss me off for a cricket test for us Or question us about our loyalty, our blood and sweat's enough Born under a sun you made too hot for us Kidnapped by empire and diaspora fostered us Raised by bhangra, garage and halal southern fried chicken shops A junglist and jungly I'm Mowgli from the Jungle Book, I'm John Barnes in the box I blaze hard after mosque I bend words like brown and west until they just spell what My tribe is a quest to a land that was lost to us And its name is dignity So where I'm from is not your problem bruv
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