DEATH BY LONGITUDE

Lyrics

What do we say of Barbados? What do we say of Jamaica? Europe is God And everything else is the Devil Everything else is the Devil Everything The Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, the Americans And here we are God and the Devil hand in hand Husband and bride, father and son And Victoria And Victoria in her death-hearts Death ship, death-ism Death by longitude, death by the Atlantic All aboard (all aboard) All aboard (all aboard) All aboard, death camps in Bristol What еlse do we call it? Death ships in London Chuckеd down in the galley Chucked down in the galley All aboard In Aberdeen, in Plymouth, (?) Chucked down in the galley In seeing the frozen dead Leading captains through tombs Of fortune and salvation There's no need to time-travel here Europe an empty salt-mine An empty salt-mine before they put twenty million pounds Twenty million pounds, twenty million pounds On your head On your head (twenty million pounds on your head) Sixty-five billion pounds Sixty-five billion pounds, sixty-five billion pounds on your head? Sixty-five billion pounds on your head (on your head) Do you hear the bells? Do you see the King? Forty-six thousand British slave owners, bailout Bailouts Bailouts, bailouts, bailouts Compensating for losing property Whose property? Whose props? Whose material? Do you hear the bells? Do you see the King? Forty-six thousand British slave owners, bailout Bailout, bailouts, bailout, bailout From losing all humanity, all mind, all dignity Compensated emancipation Whose freedom? And who's gonna remove the sickness from minds, who's gonna remove us of the stints of anti-blackness? Loud, disoriented, foul, rancid And there's no place to escape it No space (no space) Total annihilation Infiltration of what is, and who builds death like this? Who builds death like this? (The Devil, Devil) Who builds death like this? (Who builds death like this?)