Hussain Manawer - I'm Ashamed Lyrics
I’m ashamedI’m ashamed to be citizen of this worldWhere we breed corruption, deceit, and inequality between boys and girlsI’m ashamed of myselfIndulged in temptation, desire and wealthI’m so ashamed I don’t cry I laughI’m ashamed my grandparents fought for my education whilst I bunked inThe parkI’m ashamed at my work rate, the generation before us kept it togetherAnd worked hardI’m ashamed we let the smallest things getPolitical and tear us apartI’m ashamed we value success via likes and sharesI’m ashamed we spend our pay cheques dancing to techno sounds, drums andSnaresHouse parties, raves, west end bottles and flaresI’m so ashamed that I don’t even careI’m ashamed we are so connected and equally disconnected similuationalyI’m ashamed we watch polar ice caps melt and think it’s happenedSpontaneouslyI’m ashamed that when I look up to the sky and think of my contributionIts halfhearted prayers from my attic window and bags full of pollutionI’m ashamed my footprint is made of carbonI’m ashamed I find more peace and solace with eesa watching in the nightGardenI’m ashamed I burden my friendships with Ahmed and SajidAnd then send messages in the morning saying sorry about that its cool nowI can manageI’m ashamed we are looked at by colorI’m ashamed our phones connect quicker to the Internet in someone’sHome then our hearts do with each otherI’m ashamed the media has become a weapon of mass distractionI’m ashamed the greatest hero of us all was a man made out of plastic butWe called him actionI’m ashamed that the people of Rohingya are dissolving within our eyesI’m ashamed to be alive in a time were we are still using words like theHolocaust and genocideI’m ashamed it’s even a debate that Sandra Bland committed suicideI’m ashamed freedom doesn’t come freelyI’m ashamed we don’t know the story of aafia sadiqeeI’m ashamed, that in my throat I feel a lumpAnd ashamed till the death of me that hundreds of years of slavery is onlyTaught in a single monthI’m ashamed we did the mannequin challenge whilst the orphans wereCallingI’m ashamed that Syria has lost its children and Aleppo has fallenIm ashamed we didn’t focus in history and ran through our corridorsWhen we should have been learning about kunte kente, anne frank and howMuch heart it took to escape from sobiborI’m ashamed our intelligence is artificial and cannot breatheI’m ashamed we created a virtual world because we destroyed the world weCan really see,I’m ashamed we elected world’s leaders that cannot leadI’m ashamed terror has depressed the planetI’m ashamed anxiety is imbedding itself in the graniteI’m ashamed we will take this moment for what it isAnd in a few hours be even more ashamed because I’ll continue like itDidn’t existWe travelled fastBut we moved slow,We developed quick,We didn’t growI learnt it all on Wanstead Park Bridge, in valentine’s park and belgraveRoad,One thing I’m not ashamed to say is this, is home sweet home,
