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subhas - utopia lyrics

denise phua called my people walking time bombs
then how come i haven’t blown up with all of my songs?
i loved hearing when hate emanates from the diaphragm
of you icons, pythons… is this mike on?
see i never let bygones be bygones
power to my people, elevate through this fight song
$18 dollars a day, how they survive on?
see i don’t write songs, i just right wrongs
-ssimilation, discrimination
my nations, migration
no hesitation…
they give staycations
to these white men here to… cauasians

please stay where you are
we’ve come way too far
where you think that you’re gonna go?
this is utopia
please stay where you are
we’ve come way too far
where you think that you’re gonna go?
this is utopia

the human race is a race to the bottom
i was raised to be a problem
i’m tearing down your columns
i found the foundations rotten
for those that we have forgotten, i got them
foreign but so much in common
but common sense is not common
so give it up on time for bangladesh
china, vietnam, & the phillipines
everyone here tryna chase their dreams but
crazy, which asians made the movie scenes?

alamak sayang
kenape wayang
that you don’t hear words that i’m saying?
i sembayang
that i don’t die young
but until then i will just keep on trying…
sssh
u-to-pia
u-to-pia
mercy, mercy, mercy for all the mercenaries
‘masek spending our millies, money come they missionary
my time temporary, my genre most necessary
in this rap game i don’t see no contemporaries
i’m a visionary but still got blind spots
the truth that i see inside of these eye sock-ets
and most of y’all missing the point like the game 6 houston rockets
the way i rock it, if i could lead my bros i would tell them to just stop it
my kind of change is putting change in they pockets
but they won’t listen till we messing up the profits
so i posit to pause it till they make deposits

we live in a system that has normalised us
to window shop women as ready-made maids
and to walk oblivious to a brown man stopped and id checked
because he poses some kind of a threat…
and to see overcrowded lorries of sleep deprived men riding in the back with the equipment
when birthdays and new years wishes are video calls
from parents to children they haven’t seen in years because
they have left their children to raise ours, to build our buildings
and fulfil our pleasures in this south east asian utopia

it’s 6 days a week, 12 hour a day shifts
for these men of gifts… it’s back breaking labour
building our marina bays and park colonials and straits clans
we are the new-colonialists – they slave away in the heat
so you can enjoy your poolside spray tans
they have sweat equity on stolen sand
but this… this is an access-card only entrance
little india is policed ad nauseam
we should have a whole museum in honour of the displaced kings and queens who have literally built this nation but to us… they are dispensable
one goes another comes
there will always be a hungry mouth or
illusion of granduer and a better life that we will not fulfil
and just because they are happy does not make this ‘just’…
that’s why i’m feeling survivor’s guilt in a land they built
wondering if spitting this truth in silk is saliva split
because, who is gonna to stand up for singapore

the first step to justice is recognising that we are all exploited, albeit to different levels
they are as singaporean as we are because to live in singapore means to be trapped in a system where we serve to create value for corporations and those in power
we are merely the more valuable cogs
so is this disparity geographical destiny?
or calculated cycles of poverty?
wealth is sequestered in a sliver that we will never see
we need a values shift in our society
where influencers get paid more in loading fees
so i wonder what cna ever wanted from me?
is it a quick snapshot of poverty?
because a single voice cannot end socio-economic inequality in my country
i’m just glad i managed to finesse us a fee

- subhas lyrics

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