Lowkey - Obama Nation lyrics

This track is not an attack
Upon the American people
It is an attack upon the
System within which they live
Since 1945 the United States has attempted to
Overthrow more than 50 foreign governments
In the process the US has caused the
End of life for several million people
And condemned many millions more to a
Life of agony and despair

The strength of your dreamin'
Prevents you from reason
The American dream only makes
Sense if you're sleepin'
It's just a cruel fantasy
Their politics took my voice away but their
Music gave it back to me
The land where their lumpen
Are consumed by consumption
Killing themselves to shovel down


Food in abundance
I guess a rapper from Britain is a rare voice
America is capitalism on steroids
Natives kept in casinos and reservations
Displaced slaves never given reparations
Take everything from Native Americans
And wonder why I call
It the racist experiment
Afraid of your melanin
The same as it's ever been
That ain't gonna change with the
Race of the president
I see imperialism under your skin tone
You could call it
Christopher Columbus syndrome

O! Say can you see by the dawn's early light
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
What so proudly we hailed at
The twilight's last gleaming
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Doesn't make any difference when
They bomb your nation)
Whose broad stripes and bright
Stars through perilous fight
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
O'er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Doesn't make any difference when
They bomb your nation)

The world's entertainer
The world's devastator
From Venezuela to Mesopotamia
Your cameras lie 'cause they have
To hide the savage crimes
Committed on leaders that happen
To try and nationalize
Eating competitions while the
Worlds been starvin'
Beat up communism with the help of bin Laden
Where would your war of terror
Be without that man?
Every day you create more Nidal Hassans
Kill a man from the military, you're a weirdo
But kill a wog from the
Middle East you're a hero
Your country is causing screams that
Are never reaching ear holes
America inflicted a million ground zeros
Follow the dollar and swallow your humanity
Soldiers committing savagery you never
Even have to see
Those mad at me, writing in emails angrily
I'm not anti-America, America is anti-me

And the rocket's red glare
The bombs bursting in air
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
Gave proof through the night that
Our flag was still there
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Doesn't make any difference when
They bomb your nation)
O! Does that star spangled banner yet wave
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
O'er land of the free and
The home of the brave
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Doesn't make any difference when
They bomb your nation)

I don't care if him and
Cheney are long lost relations
What matters more is the policies
I lost my patience stop debating
Bringing race into conversation
Occupation and cooperation equals
Profit makin
It's over - people wake up from the dream now
Nobel peace prize, Jay-Z on speed dial
It's the substance within
Not the colour of your skin
Are you the puppeteer or the
Puppet on the string?
So many believed it was
Instantly gonna change
There was still Dennis Ross
Brzezinski and Robert Gates
What happened to Chas Freeman? (AIPAC)
What happened to Tristan Anderson?
It's a machine that keeps that man breathing
I have the heart to say what
All the other rappers aren't
Words like Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan
The war's on, and you morons were all wrong
I call Obama a bomber 'cause
Those are your bombs