Lowkey, Mai Khalil - Ghosts of Grenfell lyrics

The night our eyes changed rooms where
Love was made and un made in
A flash of the night rooms where
Memories drowned in fumes of poison
Rooms where
Futures were planned and the imagination of
Children built castles in the sky
Rooms where, both the extraordinary and the
Mundane were lived
Become forever tortured graves of ash
Oh you political class
So servile to corporate power

Did they die, or us? Did they die, or us?
Did they die, for us?
Ghosts of Grenfell still calling for justice
Now hear 'em, now hear 'em scream
Did they die, or us? Did they die, or us?
Did they die, for us?
This corporate manslaughter will haunt you
Now hear 'em scream



Words can not express
Please allow me to begin though
1: 30am heard the shouting from my window
People crying in the street
Watchin' the burning of their kinfolk
Grenfell Tower, now historically a symbol
People reaching, from their windows
Screaming for their lives
Pleading, with the cries
Tryna reason with the skies
Dale youth birthed champions
Comparison is clear though
That every single person in the
Building was a hero
So don't judge our tired eyes
In these trying times
'Cause we be breathing in cyanide
The entire night
They say Yasin saw the fire and he ran inside
Who'd thought that would be the site
Where he and his family died
The street is like a graveyard
Tombstones lurching over us
Those shouting out to their windows now
Wish they never woke them up
Wouldn't hope your worst enemy to
Go in this position
Now it's flowers for the dead and
Printed posters for the missing, come home

Did they die, or us? Did they die, or us?
Did they die, for us?
Ghosts of Grenfell still calling for justice
Now hear 'em, now hear 'em scream
Did they die, or us? Did they die, or us?
Did they die, for us?
This corporate manslaughter will haunt you
Now hear 'em scream

I see trauma in the faces of
All those that witnessed this
Innocence in the faces of all
Those on the missing list
See hopes unfulfilled
Ambitions never achieved
No I'm not the only one that
Sees the dead in my dreams
Strive for the bravery of Yasin
Artistic gift of Khadija every person
A unique blessing to never be repeated
Strive for the loyalty of siblings that
Stayed behind with their parents
Pray that every loved one lost
Can somehow make an appearance we are
Calling like the last conversations
With their dearest until we face
What they face we will never
Know what fear is we are
Calling for survivors rehoused in
The best place
Not to be left sleeping in the
West Way for 10 days
We're, calling for arrests made
And debts paid in true numbers known for the
Families who kept faith
We're, calling for safety in homes of love
They are immortalised forever, the
Only ghosts are us, i wonder

Did they die, or us? Did they die, or us?
Did they die, for us?
Ghosts of Grenfell still calling for justice
Now hear 'em, now hear 'em scream
Did they die, or us? Did they die, or us?
Did they die, for us?
This corporate manslaughter will haunt you
Now hear 'em scream

Olooli win arooh
Nas a'am tehtere'a fe sa'at sahoor
Ahess ennee be alam tanee
Ahess ennee be alam tanee olooli win arooh
Nas a'am tehtere'a fe sa'at sahoor
Ahess ennee be alam tanee
Ahess ennee be alam tanee

To whom it may concern
At the Queen's royal borough of Kensington
In Chelsea where is Yasin
El Wahabi? Where is his brother
Mehdi? Where is his
Sister Nur Huda? Where is their mother
And where is their father? Where
Is Nura Jamal and her husband Hashim?
Where is their children, Yahya
Firdaus and Yaqoob? Where is Nadia Loureda?
Where is Steve Power? Where
Is Denis Murphy? Where is Marco
Gottardi? Where is Gloria Trevisan?
Where is Amal and her
Daughter Amaya? Where is
Mohammed Neda? Where is Ali
Yawar Jafari? Where
Is Khadija Saye? Where is
Mary Mendy? Where is
Mariem Elgwahry? Where is her mother Suhar?

Tell us, where is Rania Ibrahim and
Her two daughters? Where
Is Jessica Urbano Ramirez? Where
Is Deborah Lamprell?
Where is Mohammed Alhajali? Where is
Nadia? Where is her
Husband Bassem? Where are her
Daughters, Mirna, Fatima
Zaina and their grandmother? Where is
Zainab Dean and her
Son Jeremiah? Where is Ligaya Moore? Where is
Sheila Smith? Where is Mohammednour
Tuccu? Where is Tony
Disson? Where is Maria Burton?
Where is Fathaya
Alsanousi? Where is her son Abu
Feras and her daughter
Esra Ibrahim? Where is Lucas
James? Where is Farah
Hamdan? Where is Omar Belkadi?
Where is their daughter
Leena? Where is Hamid Kani? Where is Esham
Rahman? Where is Raymond Bernard? Where
Is Isaac Paulos? Where
Is Marjorie Vital? Where's her
Son Ernie? Where
Is Komru Miah? Where is his wife Razia? Where
Are their children Abdul Hanif, Abdul Hamid
Hosna? Where are Sakineh and
Fatima Afraseiabi? Where
Is Berkti Haftom and her son Biruk?

Tells us
Where is Stefan Anthony Mills? Where
Is Abdul Salam? Where is
Khadija Khalloufi? Where is Karen
Bernard? Where are these
People? Where are these people? Where
Is Gary Maunders? Where is
Rohima Ali? Where is her six
Year old daughter Maryam
Her five year old daughter Hafizah and
Her three year old son
Mohammed? God bless you all! Where
Are all these people?

Where are all these people?
The blood is on your hands
There will be ashes on your graves
Like a Phoenix we will rise
The blood is on your hands
There will be ashes on your graves
Like a Phoenix we will rise