The Unwanted

All they ever wanted
Was the sweat of your brow
Taken from your homeland
This is your country now

Ghettoed in the worst housing;
cut off from society
Given the worst employment
with no opportunity

‘It’s so disgraceful!
I want no part of that!’
Well that’s so easy to say
when your face ain’t black.

The State took discrimination
and they made it clean.
Those who think they have a stake in the Nation
take it to the extreme

In the palaces of policy,
where they shift the blame,
Labour and Conservative
play the racist game.

They say ‘It shouldn’t happen
it couldn’t happen,
it wouldn’t happen here’

But then it happens
Oh yes! It happens.
Every day of the year

They say ‘It shouldn’t happen’