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Immigration Raid

from Cop This - THE ALBUM! by Cosmo

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I was chilling out the back with Herman the German
We were having a cig in the rain
Amir was in the cupboard where the boss never checks
He was necking with the new girl Jane
We talked about lifting a bottle from the dead stock
After the shift that night
When the restaurant door burst open with a roar
Plates and cutlery dropped in fright

Crash boom bang
Sturm und drang
Welcome to the masquerade
Here to wreck lives and demonise
It’s an immigration raid
Face on the floor
Slap on the jaw
There’s no hiding in the shade
Ask no questions, tell no lies
It’s an immigration raid

As we ran inside right there to our surprise
They had Yas’s arm up her back
Customers screaming
On the floor they were reeling
I thought one’d had a heart attack
Eva had some smoke for later after shift
I could see her put it down her bra
And if you had brown skin or talked with an accent
You had to put your ID on the bar

Crash boom bang
Sturm und drang
Welcome to the masquerade
Here to wreck lives and demonise
It’s an immigration raid
Face to the floor
Slap on the jaw
There’s no hiding in the shade
Ask no questions, tell no lies
It’s an immigration raid

After that they tried lifting Ali from the kitchen
They said they wanted him detained
We made em beat a retreat and he legged it down the street
They’re bullies bur we had 'em tamed
No matter what our papers say you can’t divide us
We all work here and we’re not alone
And by the way, Amir and Jane stayed put there in the cupboard
The cops had left them well alone

Crash boom bang
Sturm und drang
Welcome to the masquerade
Here to wreck lives and demonise
It’s an immigration raid
Face on the floor
Slap on the jaw
There’s no hiding in the shade
Ask no questions, tell no lies
It’s an immigration raid

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from Cop This - THE ALBUM!, released November 12, 2022

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".. a folksinger for our times with a veritable hive of bees in his bonnet..." Rob Adams, Edinburgh Fringe Review.

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