Sirens Lyrics

Fire bun these sirens

Babylon's Insurgents

These vagabonding tyrants

Pigs in blankets and garments

Armed gangs protecting parliaments

Claim their cowardice as valiance

Blame everyone for the violence

Frame our self-defence as Defiance

Tame lawful resistance and noncompliance

Forceful with unlawful appliance

Though themselves crooked, they insist on our abidance

Break everything but their silence

Breaking people into fragments

They've forged an immoral alliance

When Corruption is a systemic science

Brutality is within their allowance

Fire bun these sirens

The scales of justice have never be balanced

When their pendulum swings it's often been biased

They've re-tuned their hypocrisy to sound like ballads

Made harmonies from the sound of people getting battered

Tear gas, so we scatter

Bullets rip through flesh as blood splatters

Black blood turned paint on streets and taint their platter

Oh, to fight for idea that Black Lives do in fact Matter

Fire bun these sirens

In the favelas, the ones in blue, ati awon olopa

Let's not dance around the fact, that there's a history of bones getting shattered

We're made sick by this disease from which they conceived that our bodies were autumn leaves

suitable for hanging in trees

Closed door brutality, they strip searched a 15 year old black girl on her Menzies

Thick as thieves, there's no misunderstanding when some says I can't breathe

Suffocating in the purgatory of youth and ambition in Nigeria's streets

Falling to their knees as the heavy artillery piercing through their capillaries fall simultaneously

These police. Take power trips like addicts hiding the high on their faces

These police. Take corruption to the highest of places

Let's face it. These police. Have always been institutionally racist

Fire bun these sirens