Wake Up Lyrics

Wake Up by Lowkey

• Yeah
• The year 2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery
• These are my views
• Hear my words
• Listen, listen

• I woke up this morning so I had to make a new track
• This is the difference between true stories and true facts
• This right here is what waking up feels like
• This is the difference between real talk and real life
• It’s a treacherous road so mind the GAP
• Because they try to blur the lines between lies and facts
• They told you, it was finished, but that’s all a lie
• ’Cos there’s children in them sweatshops, some as young as four or five
• Check the tongue on your trainers
• These slave-made products are brought here to get endorsed by somebody famous
• So we think it looks cool
• While slaves are stitching footballs in Pakistan
• I break it down in a way that other rappers can’t
• It’s hard to stop sleeping and wake up, ’cos it’s too real
• But if karma doesn’t get you first then the truth will
• We're living in some wild days
• According to Unicef there’s 246 million child slaves
• So…

• Wake up
• Open your eyes and listen to this
• Cos little innocent kids are stitching them kicks
• I'm ticked off, cos we're living this myth
• The devil's biggest of tricks was convincing the people he didn't exist
• So..
• Wake up
• You think it ended but it never did
• It put the chocolate in our mouth
• The logos on our freshest kicks
• The logos on our backs, the coffee we drink, almost everything
• There’s more slaves on earth right now than there’s ever been

• You're listening to the wrong rappers
• Companies use child slaves then blame it all on their subcontractors
• Don’t need to guess who sewed those jeans, but who’s buying these clothes
• Who gives us cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast?
• The answers are Mars, but you don't need to search the skies
• They’re in Asian sweatshops making Mickey Mouse merchandise
• Nowadays it's less to do with the colour of your skin, fam
• It’s more to do with the country that you’re in, fam
• Won't stop spitting until there’s a change
• Every purchase that we make, keep the children in chains
• It’s so twisted and strange to me
• Some parents are so poor they sell their own kids into slavery
• It’s an ugly state of affairs
• Slaves used to pick cotton but now they stitch ticks on the trainers we wear
• When they tell you it’s finished, don’t let them
• ’Cos it’s still here, even though it got abolished in 1807

• Wake up
• Open your eyes and listen to this
• Cos little innocent kids are stitching them kicks
• I'm ticked off, cos we're living this myth
• The devil's biggest of tricks was convincing the people he didn't exist
• So..
• Wake up
• You think it ended but it never did
• It put the chocolate in our mouth
• The logos on our freshest kicks
• The logos on our backs, the coffee we drink, almost everything
• There’s more slaves on earth right now than there’s ever been

• This is for those who kept faith
• And all the children around the globe getting sold as sex slaves
• Back in the day it was bad but this is the next phase
• Nowadays everything’s in our hands fam, let’s change
• In these tragic times, we gotta analyse these rappers rhymes
• The fact is they're blind, and they glamourise a pack of lies
• The powers that be got us distracted but we have to fight
• ’Cos these days it’s not as simple as being black or white
• We need to fix our lives and get some unity
• ’Cos ’til the feds get their weapons, shoot-executing me
• Putting me back to sleep is something you could never do to me
• Yours truly, Lowkey, the rapper slash revolutionary
• Do your research if you don't believe it still exists
• It’s just a matter of how long can we live with it
• You could call me a hypocrite
• ’Cos if you look at my shoe on my foot right now, you’d see a little tick on it

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