Lowkey, Kaia (AUS) - Ghosts of Grenfell 2 lyrics

Black snow on a summer's night
Cold shoulders on a summer's day
Invisible violence becomes visible
In such a sudden way
Black snow on a summer's night
Cold shoulders on a summer's day
Invisible violence becomes visible

Twelve months, no arrests made
The image in our heads stayed
Stressed faces pressed to windows
Looking for an escape
Seems they underestimate this corner
Of the Westway
Witnesses to the crime we fear a
Whitewash is the end game
Minister, what was your relationship
With Mark Allen?
Been waiting twelve months for answers
Still we can't have them
Windows to our soul witnessed anguish


That you can't fathom
No disrespect intended
Troubled Water wasn't our anthem
Carnival on the soul of Kelso Cochrane
What do you think will develop
On the strength of those names?
Over seventy everyday people
No celebrities were left here
Picking up pieces of broken memories
No more to big business, fiddling regulations
Grenfell Action Group
The most tragic of vindications
From sympathy of a nation
To most uncomfortable of issues
Our dearly departed please know we love
You and we miss you

Calling, still hear them calling
Black snow was falling
From the corners of my mind, I hear you
Calling, still hear them calling
Black snow was falling
From the corners of my mind, I hear the

When invisible violence becomes visible
Thinking is uncritical listen to some
Thinking we're simple and dumb criminals
Hardened battered hearts
Haven't laughed in a good while
But Stormzy at the Brit Awards
Made the neighbourhood smile out your mind
If you think we're satisfied with platitudes
Questions for RBKC
Celotex and Sajid Javid too
As nihilism sets in and the breakdowns start
Slow creep of bureaucratic violence
Strains our hearts
Feeling like an empty vessel
Staring at an empty vessel
Corporate hijack of regulations
Very detrimental human life
The cost - how can we
Not be feeling sentimental?
Goosebumps cross your skin when you feel
The breath of death against you
Bet you never went through that
Cursed night of haunted sounds
That wretched cladding falling down
Since then death is all around
They say that every storm there is a dawn
Knocking on Heaven's door
We mourn forever more

Calling, still hear them calling
Black snow was falling
From the corners of my mind, I hear you
Calling, still hear them calling
Black snow was falling
From the corners of my mind, I hear the

A place where the flames took
Everything that is sacred
We're planting seeds for trees we might
Not sit in the shade of
Combustible and still legal
Regulations feel feeble never again
Moment neoliberalism kills people
For innocence tarnished and beauty
That was lost regulations disregarded
It's the human that's the cost
Hospitals, hotels and schools
How could we forget that
Up and down the country there's
People sleeping in death traps

We're (calling) for an end to the disdain
Better bow your heads in silence
When we're mentioning their names
We are (calling)
For survivors rehoused in the best place
Still we demonstrate against bonfires
Of red tape we're (calling)
For the companies and
Council held accountable
Climbing up the mountain though
It's height seems insurmountable (Calling)
From the bottom of our lungs -
Truth, justice and peace for all
Of the lost ones

Calling, still hear them calling
Black snow was falling
From the corners of my mind, I hear you
Calling, still hear them calling
Black snow was falling
From the corners of my mind, I hear the

The blood is on your hands
There'll be ashes on your grave
Like a phoenix, we will rise
The blood is on your hands
There'll be ashes on your grave
Like a phoenix, we will rise

We will never give up we will never give in
We will never give out we will rise
We will rise

We will never give up we will never give in
We will never give out we will rise
We will rise