Mother Tongue

from Dirty Protest by EX-WIFE

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These things they frighten me
I know I know my history
Let me turn back the clock
The country is not what it was
World’s oldest democracy
Queen’s cradle of civility
Where has my country gone?
Where has it all gone wrong?

Why’d you come when you don’t belong?
Why’d you come when you don’t belong?
You put your tongue where it don’t belong
You put your tongue where it don’t belong

These people frighten me
Twist my reality
I like people just like me
People from this country
With good Christian names
And sort of look the same
I heard them on the bus
They even smell like us
A mindless base cacophony
Some of them even look like me
Little more than squalls and grunts
A random mass of consonants

Why’d you come when you don’t belong?
Why’d you come when you don’t belong?
You put your tongue where it don’t belong
You put your tongue where it don’t belong
Just leave and let me be - this feeling’s eating me
You make me scream and shout - your body turn my insides out

These things they frighten me
I thought I knew my history
Read it in the daily mail
I knew the threat but not the scale
We’ve landed in the rough
They’re even down the club
Whoever chose to let them in
Needs their head examining
At first - I could not tell
Why I was not feeling well
My friends they all agree
Change is a grave disease
I need to watch the things I say
Can’t even call a spade a spade

Why’d you come when you don’t belong?
Why’d you come when you don’t belong?
You put your tongue where it don’t belong
You put your tongue where it don’t belong
Why’d you come when you don’t belong?
You put your tongue where it don’t belong

They’ll take my things from me
Annihilate my history
Then I’d have nothing left
Have to confront myself
Shelves packed full of polish food
Fancy dress costumes, fabric shoes
Some don’t even wear socks
Let alone look like us
Some of them like to spit
I’m not a racist shit
White, black, brown or green
They’re all the same to me
I treat them with the same respect
As long as they are somewhere else
Eating their foreign muck
Always makes me throw up
Just give me meat and veg
Then you’ll get some real respect

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from Dirty Protest, released May 1, 2022

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EX-WIFE are Billy Barry and Steve Meat

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