Windrush Baby

Catastrophic

You're stuck in a backward gear

And I need a little angst of life, yeah

The scaremongers scare

And from among us tear

Families from left to right

I got a finger here next to my index spare

And I use it just to speak me mind, yo

I'm just a windrush baby

No time for complaining

So meet on the streets at night!

What do you mean?

I like my cigarette with a bit weed, heavenly

I need to dance, I need to cheer

'Ave a laugh and persevere

Just meet me on the streets at night

I'm just a windrush baby

With little bits of crazy

Alive just to have a good time, yeah

Whatever you need, facilitate it

Whatever your stimulations

No need to think twice or hide

I'm just a windrush baby

With little bits of crazy

Alive just to have a good time, yeah

Whatever you need, facilitate it

Whatever your stimulations

No need to think twice or hide

17, mummy came over from the Caribbean

What a being

Went university, faced with adversity

But hit the shubeen just to ease the time

You know what I mean? Yeah

Now the love is gone from the street

Can you not see it?

Just leave it to the windrush baby

It's time we reclaim it

So meet me in the streets at night!

I'm just a windrush baby

With little bits of crazy

Alive just to have a good time, yeah

Whatever you need, facilitate it

Whatever your stimulations

No need to think twice or hide

I'm just a windrush baby

With little bits of crazy

Alive just to have a good time, yeah

Whatever you need, facilitate it

Whatever your stimulations

No need to think twice or hide

(Coming to Britain from Jamaica was not easy for me

As far as I was concerned, British blacks were lost souls

So what kept me going and what is really important is the values taught to me by my grandmother

But I hope one day you will get those values because you haven't got them yet

Some of the things you do still show to me that you haven't got those values that my grandmother passed on

And that is what is happening to the black community

We have let go of the very strong values that we used to have)