Dum shella Refugge education number one here we go
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it again now get yourself an aducation
pull up the people
pull up the poor
slang tang
that's the that m.i.a. thang
i got the bombs to make you blow
i got the beats to make you bang bang bang
yeah me got god, and me got you
everyday thinkin bout how me get through
everything i own is on i.o.u.
but i'm here bringing y'all something new
you no like the people
they no like you
then they go set it off with a big boom
every gun in a battle is a son and daughter too
why you wanna talk about who done who?
what you wanna talk about?
slang tang
that's the that m.i.a. thang
i got the bombs to make you blow
i got th ebeats to make you bang bang bang
pull up the people, pull up the poor
i'm a fighter, fighter god
i'm a soldier on that road
i'm a fighter, a nice nice fighter
i'm a soldier on that road
bring me the reaper
bring me a lawyer
i'll fight i'll take em on
you treat me like a killer
i ain't never hate ya
i'm a soldier on that road
i'm a fighter, fighter god
i'm a soldier on that road
i'm a fighter, a nice nice fighter
i'm a soldier on that road
They're comin through the window
They're comin through the door
They're bustin down the big wall
And sounding the horn
What you want
The bucky done gun
What you want
The fire done burn
Get crackin, get get crackin
Time to spit new shit
I'm rocking on this new bit
I'm hot now you'll see
I'll fight you just to get peace
Heavy weight wrestler
Fight me in your comforter
Let you be superior
I'm filthy with the fury ya
I'll hard drive your bit
I'm battered by your sumo grip
Lucky I like feeling shit
My stamina can take it
Gymnastics super fit
Muscles on the gun clip
Bite, teeth, nose bleed
Tied up in the scarf piece
Can I get control
Do you like me vulnerable
I'm armed and I'm equal
More for for the people
Physical, Brute force
Steel, Iron you're the boss
Yeah you're so o-able
Grind me down sugar salt
Growing up, brewing up
Guerilla getting trained up
Look out Look out
From over the rooftop
[Repeat]
Competition coming up now
Load up. Aim. Fire! Fire! Pop!
[Repeat]
Row the boat - straight to the ocean
Give em a run, a run at his own game
Signal the plane and I landed on the runway
A survivor, independent foreigner
First your beats had me running to the running man
Then your chat had me want to do the bogle man
Click suits and booted in the timberland
Freaking out to missy on a timberland
Growing up, brewing up
Guerilla getting trained up
Look out! Look out!
From over the rooftop
[Repeat]
Competition coming up now
Load up. Aim. Fire! Fire! Pop!
[Repeat]
You should have been good to me
Then I wouldn't get so rowdy, rowdy
You should have kept ya eye on me
Then I wouldn't get so baddy, baddy
Whether you are...
Swinging out to swing beat
Laying low and jacking up to Lou Reed
Chasing out to Pixies and the Beasties
Doing accede with hair-colored geek freaks
FFWD onto the '04
Got my own flow get you to the dance floor
Little mama doing the booty rolls
Crump clowns got me rooting for the Linos.
Freedom fightin' dad
Bombed his pad
Called him a terror
Put him on wanted ads. [x2]
Daddy's M.I.A.
Missing in action
Gone to start
A revolution
Freedom fighter got injection
He no act
He got no reaction. [x2]
I was missing in action
On the side of a carton
I was taken in a datsun
From a street in action
I was sipping on a rubicon
Thinking 'bout where I come
It's all this for revolution
Cutting up the coupon
Saving for a telephone
Can I call home
Please can I go home
Painted nails, sunsets on horizons
Palm tree silhouette smells amazing
Blindfolds under home made lanterns
Somewhere in the Amazon
They're holding me ransom
Hello, this is M.I.A.
Could you please
Come get me
Smoking on a benson
Trying to get me undone
Let me go
I don't want your attention
Under submission
Out of frustration I'll do it
I'll scream for the nation
Painted nails, sunsets on horizons
Palm tree silhouette smells amazing
Blindfolds under home made lanterns
Somewhere in the Amazon
They're holding me ransom
Hello, this is M.I.A.
Could you please
Come get me
Minutes turned to hours
And became our dates
When we shared raindrops
That turned into lakes
Bodies started merging
And the lines got grey
Now I'm looking at him thinking
Maybe he's OK
Hello, this is M.I.A.
It's OK
You forgot me
Can you keep a secret
From them other people
If I tell you 'bout wha-gwan?
And would you let me know
If I forget the secret
Took my eye of the ball?
'Cos BINGO now I'm hitting a 6
I know what's going on
I know how you going on
I got the Ra Ra
Go ahead and throw the ball
I don't be running at all
I got my own goal
I stand in one place
And make sure I just hit the ball
Can you keep a secret
From them other people
If I tell you 'bout wha-gwan?
And would you let me know
If I forget the secret
Took my eye of the ball?
'Cos BINGO now I'm hitting a 6
You drink too much Rum
You make me wanna run
I make no assumptions
Ass will get the hump on
Wha's the point of talking gun?
I'm done! Blitz and bombed
That's why I don't run
For the sake of having fun
Can you keep a secret
From them other people
If I tell you 'bout wha-gwan?
And would you let me know
If I forget the secret
Took my eye of the ball?
'Cos BINGO now I'm hitting a 6
Oi Ga-Ra-To
Pi-qa mine nu-mu-ro'
Me leaga � you teaser
Leaga para min
Please sir
My finger tips and the lips
Do the work yeah
My hips do the flicks
As I walk yeah
With a good head
I came to make it
With a good head
I came to break it
Did your Mama tell you
About me
What she say
Don�t go play there
Gonna make that hot boy
Want me
Gonna make that hot boy
Take me
Excuse me little Hombre
Take my number call me
I can get squeaky
So you can come and oil me
Hoytu hoytu
Cept cept (cet cet)
Cinko, quadro
Tres doie
You can call me over
You can stick me
Stab me
Grind me or wind me
Fuck, we can even ask your wifey
Rich bored at home
With a kiddie
She don�t know about
You getting nookie
Member when you first started
Call me
You had a ticket
Waitin� for me
Said you wanna
Meet in Miami
So we can start a
Family
Excuse me little Hombre
Take my number call me
I can get squeaky
So you can come and oil me
xxx
Chinna Girl is a little girl
From a town
That's all ya need to know
Lolita was a man-eater
Clocked him like a taxi meter
Fuck gold, she was platinum digger
Shakin-ass-making moves on a mover
Visa, then a plane ride to ya
Peace out, she'll kill you like Uma
She skipped away to the shop
She found she didn't have enough
She clocked him looking right at her
and sucked on a lollipop
Chinna Girl grew up to be a big girl
Had her sights set on a bigger world
Dial-a-Bride from Sri lanka
Found herself a Yorkshire banker
Need a Visa?
Got with a geezer
Need some money?
Paid him with a knees-up
Year later, started to ease-up
Got her own way, shouted out "see ya"
She skipped away to the shop
She found she didn't have enough
She clocked him looking right at her
and sucked on a lollipop
What can I get fo' 10 dollar?
Everything you want
And what can I get fo' 10 dollar?
Anything you want
Yeah what can I get fo' 10 dollar?
I Bongo
with my lingo
and beat like a wing yo
to Congo
to Columbo
can't stereotype my thing yo
I salt and pepper my mango
shoot spit
out the window
bingo I got em in the thing yo
now what? I'm doing my thing yo>
quit bendin All my fingo
quit beating me like you're ringo
you wanna go?
you wanna win a war?
like P.L.O. I don't surrendo
the sunshowers that fall on my troubles
are you over my baby
and some showers I'll be aiming at you
'cos i'm watching you my baby
I bongo
with my lingo
and beat like a wing yo
to congo
to columbo
can't stereotype my thing yo
I checked that mouth on him
fucking checked that gas on him
I had him
cornered him
fucking shut that gate on him
why should you listen to him?
he had his way I'm bored of him
I'm tired of him
I don't wanna be as bad as him
its a bomb yo
so run yo
put away your stupid gun yo
'cos we see through like a protocol call
thats why we blow it up 'fore we go
the sunshowers that fall on my troubles
are you over my baby
and some showers I'll be aiming at you
'cos i'm watching you my baby
semi-9 and snipered him
on that wall they posted him
they cornered him>
And Then Just Murdered Him
he told them he didn't know them
he wasn't there they didn't know him
they showed him a picture then
ain't that you with the muslims?
he had colgate on his teeth
and Reebok Classic on his feet
at a factory he does Nike
and then helps the family
beat heart beat
he's made it to the Newsweek
sweetheart seen it
he's doing it for the peeps. peace
the sunshowers that fall on my troubles
are you over my baby
and some showers I'll be aiming at you
'cos i'm watching you my baby
[2x]london calling
speak the slang now
boys say wha
come on girls say what, say wha
slam, galang galang galang...
shotgun, get down
get down, get down, get down
too late, you down
d-d-d-down
ta na ta na ta na
blaze a blaze (galang a lang a lang lang)
purple haze (galang a lang a lang lang)
blaze a blaze (galang a lang a lang lang)
purple haze (galang a lang a lang lang)
[2x]who the hell is hounding you in the bmw
how the hell he find you, 147'd you
the feds gon get you
pull the strings on the hood
1 paranoid youth blazin' thru the hood
blaze a blaze (galang a lang a lang lang)
purple haze (galang a lang a lang lang)
blaze a blaze (galang a lang a lang lang)
purple haze (galang a lang a lang lang)
[2x]london calling
speak the slang now
boys say wha
come on girls say what, say wha
[2x]they say
rivers gonna run though
work is gonna save you
pray and you will pull through
suck a dick'll help you
don't let em get to you
if he's got 1 you get 2
backstab your crew
sell it i could sell you
[4x]blaze a blaze (galang a lang a lang lang)
purple haze (galang a lang a lang lang)
You can watch TV and watch the media
President Bush doing takeover
Kate Moss in ads for mascara
All my youth the young offender
The bill payers, the drug dealers
Girls who are magazine covers
The part-time jobbers at the call center
No career plans cause you won't go far
Put away change for Ibiza and
Check your credit on your new Nokia
You can be a follower but who's your leader?
Break the cycle or it will kill ya (X2)
You leader, you lead, uh, do what you do
What really good's gonna happen to you? (X2)
Your prime minister to your employer
Ego lovers need more power
Trendsetters make things better
Don't sell out to be product pushers
The gyro casher and baby makers
Try something new cause it ain't over
All poor people from all over
Lottery's got a rollover
You can be a follower but who's your leader?
Break the cycle or it will kill ya (X2)
Cherokee Indian, Iraqi and Indians
Girls and me girls when they come to the fellas and
Japanese, Moroccan, Caribbean, African
That's your life but who the fuck's your president?
You don't get my life cause I don't have a side and I
Spread dat boy 'im a mile wide and I
Got brown skin, I'm a west Londoner
Educated, but a refugee, still.
You wanna boy, you're old, you go
You wanna fight, you suck, you blow
Dt-dt-dt on your mobile phone
Dt-dt-dt on your mobile phone
You fuck my man and wreck my home
I'll get my bro to rob your phone
Could it be that me and he
Are tighter than J-Lo in her jeans?
And could it be that me and he
Are tighter than R. Kelly in his teens?
You're fucking with my man
And you text him all the time
You mighta had him once
But I got him all the time
Dt-dt-dt on your mobile phone
Dt-dt-dt on your mobile phone
You fuck my man and wreck my home
I'll get my bro to rob your phone
U.R.A.Q.T
Is your dad a dealer?
'Cos you're dope to me
You throw them balls across the country
You win gold medals when you're with me
Right then it's on
He ain't no board for scrabble
You don't get points for doubles
Menage � trois lalalalala
I'll bill you for your droudles
You done lost your marble
Like a ball I'll make you dribble
You're the shrapnels in the rubble
I'm a raging bull a rebel
It's all about the low-blow brown girl
The no blood no love hot girl
The jnkn jnkn jumpin off the decks girl
The jnkn jnkn jumpin off the rocks girl
U.R.A.Q.T
Is your dad a dealer?
'Cos you're dope to me
You throw them balls across the country
You win gold medals when you're with me
Right then it's on
Refugee Education Number 2
Dash the curry like a knight in a hurry
Me come from the deli
Me not got no worry
And if you fuck with me
I'm goin' to dash my curry[x4]