The Specials - B.L.M. (Subtítulos Español)

Join! / thespecials
Contact: www.thespecials.com
Brand new album "Encore" TheSpecials.lnk.to/Encore
Lynval Golding
Born 1951
Mendes, St Catherine, Jamaica
The year was 1954, you know
Sir Winston Churchill shout across the West indian Islands
He said "Come! help us rebuild this country devastated by war"
And so anyway, my father set sail upon the Windrush
Bound for a new life, my father was a tailor by trade
So this could be the possibility of all possibilities
But no there was no cloth to stitch
Instead, do you know what, he found work in a steel foundry
Pouring hot metal, day & night, day & night
And even worse you know what I mean
He tried to find a room to rent
This was becoming a nightmare for him
He knock on door, after door, after door
But the sign on the window keep saying the same thing
"No dogs, no Irish, no blacks" Welcome to England
I'm not here to teach you
I'm not here to preach to you
I'm just want to reach out to you & say...
Time move on, in 1964 my father showed across of Jamaica
"Son" him said "come join me"
So I set sail on a ship called The Askana
When I reached Southampton on a cold winters night
Boy, I was freezing
I wanted tell the captain "just take me back to Jamaica"
But no, I was here to stay
So my father sent me to a school, Linden Road School in Gloucester
I remember the first playtime a boy shout across at me
"Oi! you black bastard, come here" I said "What?"
He said "Come here you black bastard"
I still couldn't believe it, I said "What?
Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me?"
Boy, welcome to England
I'm not here to teach you
I'm not here to preach to you
I'm just want to reach out to you & say...
In 1994 I move again
The land of the free, the home of the brave
The United State of America
And there I was just walking along in the sun
Minding my own business
Such a beautiful day man, when I remember
I had to buy a watch for my sister's birthday
Eventually I found this store
As I walked through the door this woman in the store shouted at me
"What you doing here, you goddamn nigger!"
I said "I'm just, I'm just trying to buy a watch for my sister's birthday"
When she heard my accent she said
"Oh, you're not from here, you're not one of them"
"One of them?" I said "You mean me being black?
Well ma'am, let me tell something, right, I am black!
Is that all you see the colour of my skin?"
In England them call you a black bastard
In America they call you a goddamn nigger
Boy, welcome to my world
I'm not here to teach you
I'm not here to preach to you
I'm just want to reach out to you & say...
Black lives matter