[00:01.09]Ancestral (feat. Hak Baker) (Explicit) - Nitin Sawhney/Hak Baker
[00:03.33]Composed by：Baker Omarley/Craigie Dodds/Nitin Sawhney
[00:04.86]Produced by：Craigie Dodds/Nitin Sawhney
[00:10.76]Bottom of the pile I hate what you are
[00:12.68]I hate your bloody ethnicity
[00:15.14]Yo yo
[00:17.74]Yeah
[00:18.28]'Cause granny came over in the sixties
[00:20.41]Promised gold lined street in a metropolis
[00:22.65]I wonder if it were an instant epiphany
[00:24.82]That it will never ever be what she perceived
[00:27.19]Down trodden turned people into mincemeat
[00:29.47]That'll be what's left from the machine
[00:31.58]But see my granny she ain't like anybody
[00:33.40]That I know beauty can turn bods into beasts
[00:36.21]But if you see yourself after twenty odd years
[00:38.70]Tumultuous times and a million beers
[00:40.96]Adulterous life with the same old fears
[00:43.10]A lust for a new life but you're stuck in a gear
[00:45.41]Could you stare in the mirror
[00:49.67]Could you call yourself a winner
[00:53.83]Yeah but if you see yourself after twenty odd years
[00:56.90]Tumultuous times and a million beers
[00:59.05]Adulterous life with the same old fears
[01:01.18]A lust for a new life but you're stuck in a gear
[01:03.46]Could you stare in the mirror
[01:07.20]Yeah
[01:07.70]Could you call yourself a winner
[01:10.73]Could ya
[01:12.37]And then my mum came over here in the seventies
[01:14.76]And worked hard for everything that she achieved
[01:16.95]I love my mum so much she's the man in the mirror
[01:19.38]Bless me with all my tenacity
[01:21.33]But when you're the bottom of the pile
[01:22.78]And they hate what you are
[01:24.05]And they hate your bloody ethnicity
[01:25.91]It's bloody hard in the city
[01:27.26]When you have three kids
[01:28.51]Still working through your identity
[01:30.48]But if you see yourself after twenty odd years
[01:33.09]Tumultuous times and a million beers
[01:35.26]Adulterous life with the same old fears
[01:37.61]A lust for a new life but you're stuck in a gear
[01:39.82]Could you stare in the mirror
[01:42.78]Yeah
[01:44.09]Could you call yourself a winner
[01:45.38]Could ya
[01:48.62]Yeah listen
[01:50.05]I mean you are what you tell yourself
[01:52.15]Horrible words will quell your advantages
[01:53.86]You will become your own disadvantage
[01:55.97]I say don't take your own words for granted
[01:58.88]I was a looser and a bastard
[02:00.20]But my daddy was only a phone call away
[02:03.02]You have all the answers
[02:04.51]You can be a dunce in your own class
[02:06.16]If you want mate
[02:07.03]Idiots congregate geez sheep but men emancipate
[02:09.41]I was a sheep in the jail cell
[02:11.38]All the times I would find I would weep
[02:13.17]'Cos my best friend died I used to ring up his voicemail
[02:15.81]I made a man out myself I was weak
[02:17.60]But my power runs deep it's deep it's ancestral
[02:20.36]And I will never let my family down
[02:22.05]Because my mum wears her crown on her head
[02:24.05]It's ancestral trust me
[02:27.10]Yeah I'm and
[02:28.04]Mum came over dad came over gran came over
[02:32.55]And they all did their thing you know
[02:35.51]Showing the way all the time
[02:36.72]Didn't really get it before
[02:39.02]But as I turn into a man I understand
[02:40.93]What they was tryna show me
[02:47.43]Could you call yourself a winner
[02:56.50]Could you call yourself a winner
[03:01.16]Could you stare in the mirror
[03:10.40]That's it
[03:11.03]R I P gran man