Dave – Three Rivers

Dave – Three Rivers Lyrics

Artist: Dave
Song: Three Rivers

Look
Imagine an island where the party never ends
Where it’s less about money and it’s more about friends
Where the vibes can’t done

It’s less about fundin’ and and more about fun
Tropical sun, this life in the ’60s comin’ from the Caribbean
You know Ian, Delray, Vivian, Winston
Who got drafted to England

Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton
To say they’re the life of the party, you’re wrong
My Jamaicans the entire party, you can’t see?
Big Notting Hill carni, you can’t see?

And the rights fiber glass, G, you wan see?
Imagine a place where you raisе your kids
The only place you live, sincе you ain’t a Brit
They’re deportin’ our people and it makes me sick

‘Cause they was broken by the country that they came to fix
It’s like
They came on the invitation
The passports were stacked indefinitely to remain

But for some children, that was a false hope
Thirty-seven years of age said I was an illegal immigrant
I came here to England at the age of ten and I’ve lived here all my life
Look, imagine a world that’s flawed and full of evil

With dictators and leaders who persecutin’ your people
The bodies of the innocent is pilin’ to the steeples
The ironic part is they’re prayin’ on a fable
That’s life in the 90s, you’re eastern European

And you seein’ people dyin’ ’cause their fightin’ for their freedom
And show you violence for havin’ a voice
You move out with your kids in hope of havin’ a choice
Life throws you a spanner, you can’t handle the pain

So you gamble and you drink and then you gamble again
You argue with your wife and then you sleep on the couch
You hit your children, then start freezin’ them out
You try and work things out, but it’s never the same

All the women in your household are livin’ afraid
When you look into the mirror
You’re reminded again that you’ve become the dictator you were fightin’ against
We’re, we’re fightin’ for, fightin’ for

Look, imagine a world that’s f#cked and untrue
Were the many pay a price for a few
And very day the sun rises a little later
That’s how it is when your suppressor is your liberator

‘Cause right now livin’ in the Middle East
Praise Allah for the peace
Death from a sky, little with stars
You run away with your kids so you can give them a chance

Asylum got your in a different war
Because the British wanna know what you’re livin’ here for
We rely on migration more than ever before
They’re key workers, but they couldn’t even get in the door

When you’re at Heavens Gates, what you tellin’ the Lord?
You wouldn’t even let a kid into some steadier shores
That’s a life they may never afford
Surely you would give your people chances that were better than yours?

No?
Ten years of twelve-thousand children have been killed or injured
The children of the estimated six-billion
As many of three-million no longer in their own homes

With up to two-million
This generation have been changed forever by this conflict
I went to silence when I need to who the, who the f#ck I was, bro
Like, I won’t hear anyone else, shut everyone else out

So I could just hear myself, bro
You know what I’m sayin’?
Cause we live in this world, yeah
You stand still, the way the tides set up

It will take you away from yourself, you feel me?
So then I was like “Aight, cool”
But, I had to get silent, but it’s not like mans goin’ against the tide
‘Cause goin’ against the tide still makes it about them

Still makes it about the poison that you’ve eternalized in your mind, you feel me?
It’s like “Bro, why am I in this water?
Man, this water don’t even like me, it’s not even for me
It’s not takin’ me where I wanna go, it’s not takin’ me where I wanna go

It’s who the f#ck I am, bro, you know I’m sayin’?
So the tide will tell me that bein’ black is an obstacle
See what I’m sayin’?
I had to, switch rhythms, bro

It’s like bein’ black is an asset
I am who I am because I’m black
And I love everything about it, you feel me?
And that’s who the f#ck I am
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Time Out
Release Year: 1959