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Where You From Lyrics

Song Where You From
Artist Riz Ahmed
Album The Long Goodbye
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[00:00.05] They ever ask you where from?
[00:03.27] Like where you really from
[00:07.38] The question seems simple
[00:09.00] but the answer’s kinda long
[00:11.78] I could tell ‘em Wembley
[00:13.03] But I don’t think that’s what they want
[00:15.49] but I don’t wanna tell' em more
[00:16.83] Cos anything i say is wrong
[00:18.76]
[00:20.02] Britain’s where I’m born
[00:21.20] And I love a cuppa tea & that
[00:22.51] But tea ain’t from Britain it’s from where my DNA is at
[00:25.55] And where my genes are from
[00:27.00] That’s where they make my jeans and that
[00:28.40] Then send them over to NYC where I stack my ps and that
[00:31.87]
[00:32.27] Skinheads meant I never really liked the British flag
[00:35.00] And I just got the shits when I went back to pak
[00:37.21] My ancestors Indian but India was not for us
[00:40.20] But my people built the West - we even gave the skinheads swastikas
[00:44.41]
[00:45.08] Now everybody everywhere want their country back
[00:49.10] If you want me back to where I’m from I need a map
[00:52.26] Or if everyone just gets their stuff back that’s bless for us
[00:55.72] You only made a piece of this place, leave the rest for us
[00:58.72]
[00:59.88] maybe I’m from everywhere or nowhere
[01:01.88] No man’s land, between trenches, no one goes there
[01:05.30] But it’s Fertilised by the brown bodies who fought for Britain in the wars
[01:08.73] So when I spit A poppy grows there
[01:11.10]
[01:11.39] I make my own space
[01:13.10] In this business or Britishness
[01:14.49] Your questions just limiting
[01:15.64] It’s based on appearances
[01:17.03]
[01:17.24] Stop trying find a box for us
[01:18.80] I’ll make my own and break
[01:19.87] your whole poxy concept of us
[01:21.28]
[01:21.42] Very few fit these labels
[01:22.74] So I’m repping for the rest of us
[01:24.20] Who know that there’s no place
[01:25.40] like home and that stretches us
[01:26.80] We code switch so don’t piss me off
[01:28.33] With cricket tests for us
[01:29.64] Or question us
[01:30.41] about our loyalties
[01:31.41] Our blood and sweats enough
[01:32.22]
[01:32.81] born under a sun
[01:33.83] That you made too hot for us
[01:35.01] Kidnapped by empire
[01:36.20] And diaspora fostered us
[01:37.57]
[01:37.72] Raised by garage
[01:38.68] And halal southern fried chicken shops
[01:40.28] A junglist a jungli and I’m
[01:41.78] mowgli from the jungle books
[01:43.18]
[01:43.21] I’m John Barnes in the box
[01:44.58] I blaze hard after mosque
[01:46.00] I bend words like Brown or West
[01:47.41] Until they just spell what
[01:49.73]
[01:50.72] My tribe is a quest
[01:51.89] to a land that was lost to us
[01:53.64] And it's name is dignity
[01:55.41] So where I’m from is not your problem bruv
[01:57.97]
[01:59.13] ---
[00:00.05] They ever ask you where from?
[00:03.27] Like where you really from
[00:07.38] The question seems simple
[00:09.00] but the answer' s kinda long
[00:11.78] I could tell ' em Wembley
[00:13.03] But I don' t think that' s what they want
[00:15.49] but I don' t wanna tell' em more
[00:16.83] Cos anything i say is wrong
[00:18.76]
[00:20.02] Britain' s where I' m born
[00:21.20] And I love a cuppa tea that
[00:22.51] But tea ain' t from Britain it' s from where my DNA is at
[00:25.55] And where my genes are from
[00:27.00] That' s where they make my jeans and that
[00:28.40] Then send them over to NYC where I stack my ps and that
[00:31.87]
[00:32.27] Skinheads meant I never really liked the British flag
[00:35.00] And I just got the shits when I went back to pak
[00:37.21] My ancestors Indian but India was not for us
[00:40.20] But my people built the West - we even gave the skinheads swastikas
[00:44.41]
[00:45.08] Now everybody everywhere want their country back
[00:49.10] If you want me back to where I' m from I need a map
[00:52.26] Or if everyone just gets their stuff back that' s bless for us
[00:55.72] You only made a piece of this place, leave the rest for us
[00:58.72]
[00:59.88] maybe I' m from everywhere or nowhere
[01:01.88] No man' s land, between trenches, no one goes there
[01:05.30] But it' s Fertilised by the brown bodies who fought for Britain in the wars
[01:08.73] So when I spit A poppy grows there
[01:11.10]
[01:11.39] I make my own space
[01:13.10] In this business or Britishness
[01:14.49] Your questions just limiting
[01:15.64] It' s based on appearances
[01:17.03]
[01:17.24] Stop trying find a box for us
[01:18.80] I' ll make my own and break
[01:19.87] your whole poxy concept of us
[01:21.28]
[01:21.42] Very few fit these labels
[01:22.74] So I' m repping for the rest of us
[01:24.20] Who know that there' s no place
[01:25.40] like home and that stretches us
[01:26.80] We code switch so don' t piss me off
[01:28.33] With cricket tests for us
[01:29.64] Or question us
[01:30.41] about our loyalties
[01:31.41] Our blood and sweats enough
[01:32.22]
[01:32.81] born under a sun
[01:33.83] That you made too hot for us
[01:35.01] Kidnapped by empire
[01:36.20] And diaspora fostered us
[01:37.57]
[01:37.72] Raised by garage
[01:38.68] And halal southern fried chicken shops
[01:40.28] A junglist a jungli and I' m
[01:41.78] mowgli from the jungle books
[01:43.18]
[01:43.21] I' m John Barnes in the box
[01:44.58] I blaze hard after mosque
[01:46.00] I bend words like Brown or West
[01:47.41] Until they just spell what
[01:49.73]
[01:50.72] My tribe is a quest
[01:51.89] to a land that was lost to us
[01:53.64] And it' s name is dignity
[01:55.41] So where I' m from is not your problem bruv
[01:57.97]
[01:59.13] ---
[00:00.05] They ever ask you where from?
[00:03.27] Like where you really from
[00:07.38] The question seems simple
[00:09.00] but the answer' s kinda long
[00:11.78] I could tell ' em Wembley
[00:13.03] But I don' t think that' s what they want
[00:15.49] but I don' t wanna tell' em more
[00:16.83] Cos anything i say is wrong
[00:18.76]
[00:20.02] Britain' s where I' m born
[00:21.20] And I love a cuppa tea that
[00:22.51] But tea ain' t from Britain it' s from where my DNA is at
[00:25.55] And where my genes are from
[00:27.00] That' s where they make my jeans and that
[00:28.40] Then send them over to NYC where I stack my ps and that
[00:31.87]
[00:32.27] Skinheads meant I never really liked the British flag
[00:35.00] And I just got the shits when I went back to pak
[00:37.21] My ancestors Indian but India was not for us
[00:40.20] But my people built the West - we even gave the skinheads swastikas
[00:44.41]
[00:45.08] Now everybody everywhere want their country back
[00:49.10] If you want me back to where I' m from I need a map
[00:52.26] Or if everyone just gets their stuff back that' s bless for us
[00:55.72] You only made a piece of this place, leave the rest for us
[00:58.72]
[00:59.88] maybe I' m from everywhere or nowhere
[01:01.88] No man' s land, between trenches, no one goes there
[01:05.30] But it' s Fertilised by the brown bodies who fought for Britain in the wars
[01:08.73] So when I spit A poppy grows there
[01:11.10]
[01:11.39] I make my own space
[01:13.10] In this business or Britishness
[01:14.49] Your questions just limiting
[01:15.64] It' s based on appearances
[01:17.03]
[01:17.24] Stop trying find a box for us
[01:18.80] I' ll make my own and break
[01:19.87] your whole poxy concept of us
[01:21.28]
[01:21.42] Very few fit these labels
[01:22.74] So I' m repping for the rest of us
[01:24.20] Who know that there' s no place
[01:25.40] like home and that stretches us
[01:26.80] We code switch so don' t piss me off
[01:28.33] With cricket tests for us
[01:29.64] Or question us
[01:30.41] about our loyalties
[01:31.41] Our blood and sweats enough
[01:32.22]
[01:32.81] born under a sun
[01:33.83] That you made too hot for us
[01:35.01] Kidnapped by empire
[01:36.20] And diaspora fostered us
[01:37.57]
[01:37.72] Raised by garage
[01:38.68] And halal southern fried chicken shops
[01:40.28] A junglist a jungli and I' m
[01:41.78] mowgli from the jungle books
[01:43.18]
[01:43.21] I' m John Barnes in the box
[01:44.58] I blaze hard after mosque
[01:46.00] I bend words like Brown or West
[01:47.41] Until they just spell what
[01:49.73]
[01:50.72] My tribe is a quest
[01:51.89] to a land that was lost to us
[01:53.64] And it' s name is dignity
[01:55.41] So where I' m from is not your problem bruv
[01:57.97]
[01:59.13] ---
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