We tear down a forest to build a building to plant trees inside and call it a Garden City - that’s a White Collar Crime
When the welfare hotline redirects and you have to tell your story four or five times - that’s a White Collar Crime
When you have a government that will sell it’s own people out for the right dollar signs - that’s a collar crimes…
Irappathu sevai
இறப்பது சே வை
Nilathirku uriyavane neeyum nirkka
நிலத்திற்கு உரியவனே நீயும் நிற்க
Idam indri poi vidumo
இடம் இன்றி ப ோய்விடும ோ
We used to belong to the land
What happened in between, shit - we'll never know
Naalai yendru sinthai kollaathey unarnthidu
நாளை என்று சிந்தை க ொள்ளாதே உணர்ந்திடு
The time is now, what’s lost we found, a sacred thing to do
Ottrai kaalil thaan neeyum nirkkire ena
ஒற்றை காலில் தான் நீயும் நிற்கிறே என
Athuvum ottapatta kaalumillai
அதுவும் ஒட்டப்பட்ட காலுமில்லை
Oonapaduthi unakku ootapatta kaalo?
ஊனப்படுத்தி உனக்கு ஊட்டப்பட்ட கால ோ?
Neeyum unmai unarnthida narukappattu vidumo
நீயும் உண்மை உணர்ந்திட நறுக்கப்பட்டு விடும ோ
Antha ottrai kaalum - arasiyalvaathiyaal
அந்த ஒற்றை காலும் - அரசியல்வாதியால்
Mannikka, arasiyal viyaathiyaal
மன்னிக்க, அரசியல் வியாதியால்
The sick, the greed, with license to kill
Why fill our lungs for anything short of an anthem?
(Ithu oru vaazhkaiyaa?
இது ஒரு வாழ்க்கை யா?)
We ball our fists, within a list of demands!
(Ithu oru vaazhkaiyaa?
இது ஒரு வாழ்க்கை யா?)
Why fix our lips to speak a language any other than resistance?
(Ithu oru vaazhkaiyaa?
இது ஒரு வாழ்க்கை யா?)
Why walk when we must march?
(Ithu oru vaazhkaiyaa?
இது ஒரு வாழ்க்கை யா?)
So I’m loyal to the truth and I would never tell a lie
I’ve been rolling back and forth and I just wanna get my high
I know that you are located somewhere deep inside my mind
So I… so I,… so I
The new topography
Possibly property -
Dredged sea geography
Manifest destiny of a business in the family
Hypocrisy prophecy of the HDB and PAP
Forcibly force fit people into fulcrums of poverty
They don’t let you fly drones cos they don’t want you to see sand
On outlying islands, they out-lying their old man
Toxic exposure, sperm counts, Ayer Chawan, Bukom
Eugenics, Exxon bread
Two birds one stone
They took homes, demolished, and built whatever the fuck. How?!
We let them dump people to build a dump in Semakau
We are South East Asian - decolonize now!
You can’t spell Singapore without organise, now!
My mind plays, these foolish games… ooh
Fragments of me will fill the loss the seas, fragments of me, ash and debris
And I say these same old names… ooh
Grandfathered in, silver spoons, iron seats
Fracking the seas, greenwash the speech
My mind plays…
Fragments of me
These games
… ash and debris
And I can’t remain - ooh
Jurong burns
For climate justice, the courts adjourned
It’s about time we wake up!
And I never trust a - Louis Ng
They never learn
Different lipstick on the same pig
I recognise ya makeup
So starch the collar, iron the crease
Whitewash the histories, utilise the police
Fuck your Masterplans, on Malay land, stolen sand, migrant hands - HA!
Never will I let that chill
Never will I catch that feel-ing
I don’t wanna make those bills
All I got in wallet are bills - ah -
Not the dollar type…
Not the father type…
Make it through the night
Not a hope in sight
White Collar Crime
All the fucking time
How the fuck to survive..!
But we came from.a fishing village what
And Lee Kuan Yew is a visionary, right?
If that's bullshit say, AH-AH
Let me hear you say, AH-AH
Everybody say, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
If your vote don't matter NAH
Let me hear you say, AH-AH
Everybody say, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
The middle class is a lie so say, AH-AH
If you don’t talk to the police say, AH-AH
Everybody say, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Cold Store was a lie so say- AH
Colonialism still alive today
Everybody say, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Thaipusam should be a holiday
Everyone deserves minimum pay
Everybody say, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
And Josephine Teo...
Che, venaa la, vaayile nalla varuthu...
சே , வே ணா lah, வாயில நல்ல வருது...