Got rid of the cane, no national service;
Now kids are a pain and you can't deter this,
You can't determine why all these vermin
Are bowling like BIG MAN; its cos they prefer this!!
You took away the system and the structure;
This generation? you missed em and they fucked ya!
How you keepin in the discipline?
Ya not thats why they're pissin in
Every door they pass,
Batterin peeps forlaughs.
You might think I'm bein crass
But i hope they kick YOUR ass.
So then you start feeling
What I feel every day.
An when you start squealin...
I'll just shrug and walk away.
Ignore your pain
Until you explain:
Whys my man got a six stretch?
when all these fuckin pricks get
Is a night down the nick then
Nothing that afflicts them?
Whys every school that I see broke?
You think the kids we got are a joke?
Why don't fill them full of hope?
Instead of pushing them to guns and coke
Blaming gangs and hoodies
When most of them are the goodies
Can't see the wood for the trees,
For fucks sake just ask ME where the wood is!
Whys old people dieing sad an alone,
Locked away in some piss reeked home?
When you got the money to put them in a zone
Where people will treat them like one of their own?
You stole my country.
You stole my soul.
Now I'm just a shell
Can't fill this hole,
But i refuse to fold,
Won't be over-ruled.
Thats why I'm the man
And your just a fool.
It's not too late, we can do this together;
But I need to know that you'll never say never.
Just give me a sign that you feel like i do,
That you dream the dreams that I've aspired to.
And we'll win this war.
Or at least die tryin to.
With Love
England
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Written by Phil (6845 comments posted) 23rd April 2007 |
Hip hop isn't my thing to be honest. However, you put across your point reasonably well. I actually strongly disagree with much of what you have written - and that from a bit of a red. Left wing doesn't mean an abandonment of personal responsibility. It has the tone of a socialist piece but no depth of analysis. Oh dear - doesn't politics suddenly put you on dangerous ground?
Phil. |
Written by stevetroster (1588 comments posted) 23rd April 2007 |
This reads like a 'misunderstood' youth trying to find someone else to take the blame.
"Blaming gangs and hoodies, when most of them are the goodies"
So who is it that keeps smashing up all the swings and slides in my local park? Tony Blair and Gordon Brown I assume. |
Hmm
Written by lyrikal_myrikal (2 comments posted) 24th April 2007 |
| Point appreciated, but now whose apportioning the blame? I'm not denying that SOMEONE is trasing your neighbourhood, but can you really solve the problem by not allowing well behaved kids to wear their favourite clothes and hang about with their friends? The problem is far more deep rooted than that, and yes, Gordon and Tony are largely to blame. |
Written by Phil (6845 comments posted) 24th April 2007 |
Sorry - red rag to a bull. Blair and Brown are responsible for much that is not right about our country - but they are not responsible for:
crap parenting
little bastards who get a kick out of trashing their neighbourhood
children putting their aging parents in piss stinking homes
empty headed morons who talk about 'disrespect' and shoot someone because of it
etc
etc
etc
Much of what is wrong with this country is that no-one will take responsibility for themselves and those around them. It's too easy to pass the blame to someone else. All it does is give the green light for more shitty behaviour.
'I'm sorry your honour, I stabbed him in the neck 'cos he looked at me funny.'
'That's alright son. It's not your fault. If Tony and Gordon spent more money youth centres it would never have happened. Case dismissed.'
Apologise for the rant.
Phil.
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Written by stevetroster (1588 comments posted) 24th April 2007 |
The council build playgrounds for the kids, and the moron kids go and trash them. Does it really matter whether they are wearing hoods? I don't assume that all morons wear hoods, and I don't really care if kids do wear hoods (even if the 'fashion' did start as a way of hiding your face from cctv etc) What I care about is morons trashing my country.
Should I assume that you are a hoody, or an ex-hoody? |
Written by wltshr (341 comments posted) 24th April 2007 |
If your work can generate such emotion it's done it's job brilliantly.
Wltshr |
Written by Fledermaus (3448 comments posted) 24th April 2007 |
From what I heard so far about your nice green island, Tony Blair did reasonably well. Before he came to power cities like Liverpool and Glasgow were notorious even on this side of the sea, yet nowadays they are considered popular holiday destinations.
Funnily enough I have to agree with both the above comments. It's brats that vandalize stuff and rob people and no-one, however poor, bored or uneducated has an excuse to do so. Yet on the other hand, it's weak and incompetent politicians (and an even more incompetent legal and educational system) that allow things to get out of hand.
So far for the content. I liked the form, for it realy suited the theme of an angry teen who sees all kind of things going wrong around him. |
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