作词 : Nerina Pallot

作曲 : Nerina Pallot

English - Nerina Pallot

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 of 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 judgment 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 d**n 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 h