Lowkey - Islamophobic Lullabies lyrics

This is Jamal's song, name means beauty
Are we this far gone?
Headlines associate kids with waterboarding
And car bombs
Jamal's from same part of the world
You got the guitar from
Still a wonderful world
Sing it like Louis Armstrong
Any kid bullied
I made this to keep your heart strong
Colonisers names the same pavements
That we march on
Please don't project the war
On terror onto children
They are not suspects or combatants
You cannot kill them
Please don't project the war
On terror onto Grenfell
State capture and de-regulation
It doesn't end well
Prevent spying on children
Got them stepping on eggshells
Flash lies across the pages
Islamophobia and death cells
Psychological warriors
Mess with the percentages
Innocent kids in school labelled
Grooming gangs and terrorists
Battle stereotypes like climbing over Everest
What we must question is how
These ideas became so prevalent

The rag heads and Pakis are
Still worrying your dad
But your dad's favourite food is
Still curry or kebab
The rag heads and Pakis are
Still worrying your dad
But your dad's favourite food is
Still curry or kebab
Oh, I know you're peering through the window
But they don't see you anymore
Don't lose yourself in what they think though
'Cause this has never been your war

You can tell Prevent stop
Spying on little kids
Tell the terrible tabloids
Stop tarnishing immigrants
And tell the think tanks
Their role is insidious
And tell the nasty neocons
Stop funding this ignorance
Victims of this myth creation
Searching for inspiration
Hope this song can comfort
You through the intimidation
Hope you beat those that smeared you
Through the courts of litigation
And hold your heads up high
Through these trials and tribulations
These morbid remorseless authors
Pave the way for disorders
They murdered the Magna Carta, to
Hell with habeas corpus, rendition
Torture across borders
They tore up laws as they scorch them
Now they pull up the drawbridge and
Tell you hordes are enormous
Only 018% of this country's refugees
Won't regulate fossil fuelers or
Owners of SUVs but they demonise heroes for
Braving the seven seas
34, 000 die trying to enter here
Rest in peace moment of silence

The rag heads and Pakis are
Still worrying your dad
But your dad's favourite food is
Still curry or kebab
The rag heads and Pakis are
Still worrying your dad
But your dad's favourite food is
Still curry or kebab
Oh, I know you're peering through the window
But they don't see you anymore
Don't lose yourself in what they think though
'Cause this has never been your war

A cucumber's not a bomb
A terraced house is just a home
A free Palestine badge is harmless
You're a war on terror drone
A cucumber's not a bomb
A terraced house is just a home
A free Palestine badge is harmless
You're a war on terror drone
Cucumber's not a bomb
A terraced house is just a home
A free Palestine badge is harmless
You're a war on terror drone
Cucumber's not a bomb
A terraced house is just a home
A free Palestine badge is harmless
You're a war on terror drone
Cucumber's not a bomb
A terraced house is just a home
A free Palestine badge is harmless
You're a war on terror drone