Voices of the Voiceless - LowKey, Immortal Technique

From West End to the West Bank

I write righteous rhymes with my right and wrestle the devil with my left hand

Never work for a Zionist, never been a yes man

My art is like Rembrandt painting pictures of death camps

The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom

This is for everyone of Saddam’s Kurdish murder victims

And all the pure souls that never had the chance to speak

Truth pumps in my arteries and causes my heart to beat

For soldiers haunted and tortured by guilty memories

Who realised too late to reveal their real enemy

It’s all dead wrong

For every victim of racist persecution from Auschwitz to Hebron

My words may sting cowards

For people that were atomised by the Thermite in the Twin Towers

Those living through the wars

Ask me what I do this for

Put the world in its place before it put you in yours

(Singer — Rochelle Rose)

What happens under darkness shall come to light

Can’t silence us even though you try

(Lowkey)

You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless

You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless

(Singer — Rochelle Rose)

Take our freedom, Can’t take our pride

Come what may we will survive

(Lowkey)

You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless

You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless

Keep my third eye hidden under my New York fitted

A crazy unmarried man that deserves to be committed

The future is encrypted in my troubled lyrics

Dream that I’ve been somewhere for weeks, then wake up in a couple minutes

Sweat dripping with visions of population control

Thoughts overflowing my world like the melting of the North Pole

My people are targeted by military crack committees

So I’m bucking at the feds like natives in Rapid City

Reality savage, my words are like a riot in Paris

The voice of the voiceless, that voice is social imbalance

So stand strong or sit harder in your mental palace

Blinded inside a Kingdom united to its old habits

But now, Middle Passage coming, War Chant, African drumming

Gatling gun humming

Rapid fire mechanism, reckless living

That checks the rhythm of perfectionism

Slave condition

While you’re singing God save the system

(Singer — Rochelle Rose)

What happens under darkness shall come to light

Can’t silence us even though you try

(Lowkey)

You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless

You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless

(Singer — Rochelle Rose)

Take our freedom, Can’t take our pride

Come what may we will survive

(Lowkey)

You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless

You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless

Detain my body, but you can’t imprison my mind

If it’s my time I’ll probably die with my fist in the sky

These are the thoughts of a man who can’t escape from his coma

Cries of a young virgin girl who got raped by them soldiers

Birthing a screaming bastard, post colonial nation

Subject to childhood diseases, famine, war and inflation

Education molded you into your masters image

And you forgot who the fuck you were before the war was finished

You’re hearing the ghosts of Nagasaki, You’re hearing Hiroshima

Beautiful babies being born with the weirdest features

You might never see me in the charts

But Inshallah my seed can see peace in Iraq

But peace and freedom can never be given

That’s historically forbidden, Cos only collision is the recipe

Changing the course of destiny

So I’m strapped with weaponry

Cause the government don’t give a fuck about protecting me

(Singer — Rochelle Rose)

What happens under darkness shall come to light

Can’t silence us even though you try

(Lowkey)

You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless

You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless

(Singer — Rochelle Rose)

Take our freedom, Can’t take our pride

Come what may we will survive

(Lowkey)

You can try to avoid us but it’s pointless

You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless"