And It Wasn't a Dream
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And it wasn't a dream, this was a nightmare
Mum's looking tired, dad's feeling old
They've been here for thirty years but
Still ain't seen no streets of gold
Mum packed her cases at the age of nineteen
She was gonna go to England, she would live like the Queen
She would build her own house, she would raise 'nuff kids
Sometimes I know she wishes that she never did
But what's done is done, so what's past is past
The only question now: how long can she last?
There's little future for the children in a world they never made
But tell me, where's the future for the middle-aged?
Mum's gotta put her future in the hands of the Lord
I hope she goes to Heaven for her final reward
She worked her fingers to the bone to make her life better
Tried to be a citizen, they wouldn't let her
Residential areas gave a message to Mum
"You're okay in the jungle, you'll be fine in the slum"
But in the slum, there were houses little better than shacks
With signs in the window: "No Irish, no blacks"
Wife and husband with nowhere to go
Winter coming on, and they never see snow
They say that life isn't easy, then you die
But you can't give up, you have to give it a try
Where there's youth, there's hope, no matter how bad it seems
They knew that, one day soon, they would achieve their dreams
And it wasn't a dream, this was a nightmare
When dad was a lad, he was bad
But check him out now, he's kinda sad
He came here to England, he thought he'd do well
He knew more about the English than they knew 'bout themselves
Question him on Africa, he'd give you some crap
About that place across the sea where all the people were black
Where they lived in grass houses, where they didn't wear clothes
Where every last person had a bone through the nose
But what did he care? He was in the UK
Where people co-existed in a civilised way
With this kind of thinking, his brainwashed mind
Couldn't cope, he lost hope and now he's lost and blind
Forget about the future, he's just living for now
He tried to succeed, but he didn't know how
To deal with rejection at the sight of his face
All the -isms and schisms concerning his race
He would stay here for ten or twenty years at the most
Take his family home and live high-post
When daddy arrived, that was his master plan
His wife was the woman and he was the man
But life was so hard, it near destroyed their souls
Some couples went mad, some reversed their roles
Young, gifted and black, they were a perfect team
But now they can't go back, they lost it all for a dream
And it wasn't a dream, this was a nightmare
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