Islamophobic Lullabies - LowKey

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-thanks 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 0.18% 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 bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home

A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone

A cucumber’s not a bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home

A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone

Cucumber’s not a bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home

A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone

Cucumber’s not a bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home

A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone

Cucumber’s not a bomber, terrorist’s house is just a home

A free Palestine badge is harmless, you’re a war on terror drone