Lowkey - Let Me Live lyrics

For those who died on the 7th of July
Passed tragically
And for many more gettin' killed
In Iraq as we speak
Our bombs we as taxpayers are paying for
Everyday we're slaying more
You're wrong saying we ain't at war
56 losses that's what the telly just said
In Iraq
They'll never tell us how many are dead
And in the event that's up to our government
They don't show the numbers
(Why?) because the public can't stomach it
How can you represent truth & freedom
When you're pillaging and killing
Innocent human beings
That is something Iraqi youths
Are used to seeing
So tell me truly, what do you believe in?
They've been telling us lies for years
Still we wanna listen
The public got a shield
For the guilty politician
Now at the end of the day
Why are they sharing their views?
'cos I never seen The Queen or
Tony Blair on the Tube

Let me live my life without your prejudice
Why am I getting frisked, I'm not a terrorist
Let me live my life
Evidence is irrelevant 'cos we're a threat
The feds are getting rid of it
Ever since September 11 they've
Been obsessed with it
Oppression is what their weapon is
Let me live my life
Forget arrest on the spot, death
Sentences, leave my people alone
Just let them live

These days we can't even
Bop through Oxford Circus
Without pointless coppers trying to
Stop and search us
What's the purpose, why you wanna bother me?
Increase security? Pff
Tell them to fix up their foreign policy
I can't even sit on the Tube with my Walkman
And listen to tunes without them
Getting suspicious and rude
Watching closely at the things that I do
Why are you so interested bitch
I'm probably more British than you
Gotta talk safe on the phone
For years I had the same digit's
With jakes who try to take you
To court for a train ticket
Don't argue, just listen instead
ID Card a step closer to a chip in your head
There's a bomb scare
They ask me, what, where and who, why?
It's not fair
Many muslims have blonde hair and blue eyes
So think twice about who you try to bother
'cuz you're just as likely to
Be that suicide bomber

Let me live my life without your prejudice
Why am I getting frisked, I'm not a terrorist
Let me live my life
Evidence is irrelevant 'cos we're a threat
The feds are getting rid of it
Ever since September 11 they've
Been obsessed with it
Oppression is what their weapon is
Let me live my life
Forget arrest on the spot, death
Sentences, leave my people alone
Just let them live

Police shot an innocent man
Five times in the head no militant plan
Just died 'cos he ran frightened and fled
Do they really want us to riot
And ride on these feds?
Yeah maybe violence will have
The desired effect
The other day a man got shot on the Tube
It's ill if you were his fam
Imagine how you would feel
On the news, you never see the truth revealed
Face it, the truth is them Muslim
Racists shoot to kill it's all gone wild
They got us locked down in compounds
Evidence is not found, no trial
This needs to stop now
And they got the nerve to say we're hostile
Forget crackhouses
They're raiding Mosques now
I wish I could say that the future's bright
But it's not and I can't so I choose to fight
What have you got in your heart blood
You decide 'cos everyday they're abusing
Our human rights

Let me live my life without your prejudice
Why am I getting frisked, I'm not a terrorist
Let me live my life
Evidence is irrelevant 'cos we're a threat
The feds are getting rid of it
Ever since September 11 they've
Been obsessed with it
Oppression is what their weapon is
Let me live my life
Forget arrest on the spot, death
Sentences, leave my people alone
Just let them live