Lowkey - Ahmed lyrics

[Intro] His young life was as delicate as the wing of a bu*terfly And as fragile as a spider's web For him we cry Because when he dies We all do [Verse 1] Did Ahmed not deserve a life? Ahmed never hurt a fly Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by Certain times Ahmed wished that he could be a bird and fly Beyond the sky Escape the curse of birth that he was burdened by Ahmed never grew to let your racism internalise Water poured from every pore in his corpse while the nurses cried Ahmed was a beautiful person like you or I But are we?.. Ahmed could have been a doctor, lawyer or an engineer Could have been a superstar but his life ended here Guess he was a shooting star burn bright and disappear To some he seems to represent a menace in this hemisphere Let me here make the very essence of this message clear He was precious, many die like him every year Ahmed was a victim of resentment and relentless fear Now his soul surfs the waves I wish we could have kept him here [Hook] The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) They call him Ahmed The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) They call him Ahmed [Verse 2] Ahmed's ancestors introduced to Europe Greek philosophy Brought with them irrigation, mathematics and astronomy Symbolically, irony of this horror isn't lost on me Trying to get to Europe via Greece where he's lost at sea Ahmed not Achmed, it's Ahmed He's that dead Toddler lying lifeless on the beach with his back bent Arms spread, reaching the direction that his dad went If he made it here would have been bullied for his accent He was captured by the ocean Paralysed and frozen While these parasites sat and typed, an*lysing clothing Now for resources we all compete Beyond the talk of war and peace And talk of porous border there is corpses on the shore of Greece They found a teddy next to where his body was found The sea swallowed him, politics has swallowed him now And those responsible, Ahmed's ghost will follow them now To the family all we can say is we are sorry he drowned Because... [Hook] The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) They call him Ahmed The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) They call him Ahmed [Bridge] They say let him drown, let him drown, let him drown, What have you done, don't let him drown, don't let him drown No what have we become, don't let him drown No, don't let him drown And they say Let him drown, let him drown, let him drown What have we done, don't let him drown, don't let him drown No, what have we become, don't let him drown Please, don't let him drown [Verse 3] Ahmed could of been you, and Ahmed could of been me We need to understand the policies that put him in the sea We need to understand why it is the beach is full of dying kids A colonial Metropole people want to reside in If he did would he make it or fall to something that's deeper End up like like Jimmy Mubenga or Khaled Abu Zarifa A picture by Javier Bauluz on the beaches of Tarifa Made me see, some would grieve more if Ahmed was a creature, with four legs, then they would consider him legitimate Those like him braving barbed wire burning off their finger tips Balfours alien act, that mentality still exists Is privilege the difference between an ex-pat and an immigrant? For, Ama Sumani and Osman Rasul Mohamed, when you take others humanity It's only yours that's stunted, not a swarm They're our sisters and brothers, that's the sum of it! The co*kroaches here are in the media and the government Not the sea [Hook] The sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) They call him Ahmed The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds our secrets (holds our secrets) The sea, the sea, the sea, it holds his soul (holds his soul) They call him Ahmed Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by And they all laugh at him...