Oh, you'd love to be English
And all you think it is
The Queen and her Guards taking tea
But the Hatred and the Bigotry
Won't go away

No Blacks, no Irish, bring no dogs, the shame
But being something other than the same as everyone else
Well I don't want to be like you

But my skin is so pale
My manner so fine
You think that I am just like you

And you're frightened to travel
'Till you make the world look just the same as home
While your kids buy guns and shoot their friends
And die alone

No mind, no judgement lets you take the blame
''Send those bloody strangers back from where they came''

Does that mean me too?
Or my Mother in her small red coat
Stepping off the boat
Doing jobs you're too damn lazy to

All this greatness gone to waste
You hide your eyes and turn your face and
Nothing ever changes no
Nothing ever changes

So keep your bulldogs
Keep your flags
Cause talk is cheap and
Time will drag and
Nothing ever changes - no
Nothing ever changes


I will always be English
And all I hope it is
These shores that I will claim as my own
This broken down Jerusalem
Is still my home