Sour Times - Riz MC

In these sour times

Please allow me to vouch for mine

Bitter taste in my mouth, spit it out with a rhyme

I’m losing my religion to tomorrow’s headlines

Forestgate — sorry mate?

Nah, nothing, it’s fine

Please allow me to vouch for mine

Bitter taste in my mouth, spit it out with a rhyme

I’m losing my religion to tomorrow’s headlines

Forestgate — sorry mate?

Nah, nothing, its fine

And now it’s post 7/7

Why they calling it that?

They’re trying to link it to New York

Like we’re all under attack from the same big bad guy

But it’s taking the piss

'Cause the truth is Al Qaeda doesn’t really exist

There ain’t no super villain planning these attacks from some base

The truth is so much scarier and harder to face

See, there’s thousands of angry young men that are lost

Sidelined in the economy, a marginal cost

They think there’s no point in putting ballots up in the box

They got no place in this system, and no faith in its cogs

They’re easy targets, that be getting brainwashed by these knobs

Who say that spilling innocent blood is pleasing a god

Well, it sounds good when you don’t see no justice or jobs

The gas bills are piling up, but all the oil’s getting robbed

So David taking out Goliath, and his wife and his dog

Segregated, castrated, now we see who’s on top!

So see, it ain’t religious faith that’s causing these crimes

It’s losing faith in democratic free market designs

It’s no coincidence that bombers came from ghettos up north

And the way that Bush and Blair talk gives a lost boy a cause

Then double standards get 'em angered, both at home and abroad

There’s a monopoly on pens that’s why they forge their own swords

They’re misguided, turned violent, strapped themselves up with bombs

But they’re still cowards, 'cause they ain’t here when the backlash is on

In these sour times

Please allow me to vouch for mine

Bitter taste in my mouth, spit it out with a rhyme

I’m losing my religion to tomorrow’s headlines

Forestgate — sorry mate?

Nah, nothing, it’s fine

Please allow me to vouch for mine

Bitter taste in my mouth, spit it out with a rhyme

I’m losing my religion to tomorrow’s headlines

Abu Ghraib — sorry mate?

Nah, nothing, its fine

So all the mans that wanna say that my religion has to change

That we’re stuck in a bygone age

It’s time to set the vinyl straight

Don’t you think it’s kind of strange that all this terror outrage

These last gasp castaways

These bastards that will blast away

Just turned up in the last decade

When Islam has been the way for millions

From back in the day

Instead of thinking that we’re crazed

Investigate just what it says

Fast, help the poor, and pray

Go Mecca, feast, fast and faith

That’s the basics, that the base

So how did we get here today?

Well, interpretations always change

Today, they’re read with rage

Been jihad-ened up

Desperation’s kinda fucked

Makes you use a book of peace as weapons in Iraq

So listen, terrorism isn’t caused by religion or an old school vision of Islam

It’s against the Quran, it’s a new innovation caused by mash-up situations

That’s what makes them turn to arms

The problem is modern and it’s all local factors

Dictatorships, injustices and wars cause fatwa’s

In these sour times

Please allow me to vouch for mine

Bitter taste in my mouth, spit it out with a rhyme

I’m losing my religion to tomorrow’s headlines

Abu Ghraib — sorry mate?

Nah, nothing, it’s fine

Please allow me to vouch for mine

Bitter taste in my mouth, spit it out with a rhyme

I’m losing my religion to tomorrow’s headlines

Guantamano — sorry bro?

Nah, nothing, its fine

Please allow me to vouch for mine

Bitter taste in my mouth, spit it out with a rhyme

I’m losing my religion to tomorrow’s headlines