You Say

For Jean Charles de Menezes, executed by the London Metropolitan police 22nd July 2005. You will not be forgotten, neither will your killers.

You Say

You say, you say, you say, that we’ve got liberty

You say, you say you say, that we’re not slaves

You give, you give, you give us, your democracy

And if that don’t work, won’t work, can’t work

Then you tell us Jesus saves

You say we got free speech, you say we got rights

So why are you stood there, looking at me through a gun sight?

Looking at me through a gun sight

Looking at me through a gun sight

You say, you say, you say, that we can’t speak

Oh no, oh no, oh no, not at your front door

Yet you fingerprint and think, that you can keep

All our names, our faces, DNA and more

So just what is it, that you don’t want to hear?

You say we got free speech…

You say, you say, you say, you’re here to protect us

You say, you say you say, you’re here to defend us

So how come, how come, how come, you’re arresting us

For the crime of reading out our soldier’s names

You say we got free speech…

Why, oh why can’t I say, that you are wrong?

How, oh how can you say, that I’m the one who’s mad?

When it’s you, it’s you, it’s you, who wrote the song

All I’m doing, is singing, about the good gone bad

You say we got free speech…

© W. Burn 2006