Lowkey - Wake Up lyrics

Yeah
The year 2007 marks the 200th anniversary
Of the abolition of slavery
These are my views hear my words
Listen, listen

I woke up this morning so I
Had to make a new track
This is the difference between true
Stories and true facts
This right here is what waking up feels like
This is the difference between real
Talk and real life
It’s a treacherous road so mind the GAP
Because they try to blur the
Lines between lies and facts
They told you, it was finished
But that’s all a lie
’Cos there’s children in them sweatshops
Some as young as four or five
Check the tongue on your trainers
These slave made products are brought here
To get endorsed by somebody famous
So we think it looks cool
While slaves are stitching
Footballs in Pakistan i break it down in a
Way that other rappers can’t
It’s hard to stop sleeping and wake up
’cos it’s too real
But if karma doesn’t get you
First then the truth will
We're living in some wild days
According to Unicef there’s 246
Million child slaves so

Wake up open your eyes and listen to this
Cos little innocent kids are
Stitching them kicks
I'm ticked off, cos we're living this myth
The devil's biggest of tricks was convincing
The people he didn't exist

So wake up
You think it ended but it never did
It put the chocolate in our mouth
The logos on our freshest kicks
The logos on our backs, the coffee we drink
Almost everything
There’s more slaves on earth right
Now than there’s ever been

You're listening to the wrong rappers
Companies use child slaves then blame
It all on their subcontractors
Don’t need to guess who sewed those jeans
But who’s buying these clothes
Who gives us cocoa beans
From the Ivory Coast? The answers are Mars
But you don't need to search the skies
They’re in Asian sweatshops making
Mickey Mouse merchandise
Nowadays it's less to do with
The colour of your skin, fam
It’s more to do with the
Country that you’re in, fam
Won't stop spitting until there’s a change
Every purchase that we make
Keep the children in chains
It’s so twisted and strange to me
Some parents are so poor they sell
Their own kids into slavery
It’s an ugly state of affairs
Slaves used to pick cotton but now they
Stitch ticks on the trainers we wear
When they tell you it’s finished
Don’t let them ’Cos it’s still here
Even though it got abolished in 1807


This is for those who kept faith
And all the children around the globe
Getting sold as sex slaves
Back in the day it was bad
But this is the next phase
Nowadays everything’s in our hands fam
Let’s change in these tragic times
We gotta analyse these rappers rhymes
The fact is they're blind
And they glamourise a pack of lies
The powers that be got us distracted
But we have to fight
’Cos these days it’s not as simple
As being black or white
We need to fix our lives and get some unity
’Cos ’til the feds get their weapons
Shoot-executing me
Putting me back to sleep is something
You could never do to me
Yours truly, Lowkey
The rapper slash revolutionary
Do your research if you don't
Believe it still exists
It’s just a matter of how long
Can we live with it
You could call me a hypocrite
’Cos if you look at my shoe
On my foot right now
You’d see a little tick on it