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He said "those god damn Pakistanis
and their goddamn corner shops
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Built a shop on every corner
took our British workers jobs"
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He said "those god damn Chinese
and their goddamn china shops"
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I told him they're from Vietnam
but he doesn't give a toss
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I ask him what was there
before that damn Japan mans shop
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He looks at me and dreams a scene
of British workers jobs
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Of full time full employment
before the godamn boats all came
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Where everybody went to work full time,
four weeks, every day
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"A British Business stood there first"
he claims "before the Irish came"
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Now British people lost their jobs
and bloody Turkish, they're to blame"
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I ask him how he knows that fact
he said because it's true
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I ask him how he knows that fact
he says he read it in the news
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"Every time a Somalian comes here
they take a job from us"
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"The mathematics one for one,
from us to them it just adds up"
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He bites his cake, he sips his brew
and says again he knows this plot
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"The god damn Carribeans came
and now good folk here don't have jobs"
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I ask him what was there before
the god damn Persian curtain shop
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I show him architectures plans
of empty god damn plots of land
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I show him the historic maps
A bit of sand, a barren land
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There was no god damn shop
before the Pakistani came and planned
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Man, I am sick of crappy mathematics
Cos I love a bit of sums
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I spent three years into economics
And I geek out over calculus
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And when I meet these paper claims
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That one of every new that came
Takes away ones daily wage
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I desperately want to scream
"Your math is stuck in primary!"
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Cos some who comes here also spend
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And some who come here also lend
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And some who comes here also tend
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To set up work which employs them
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And all your balance sheets and trends
they work with numbers not with men
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And all this god damn heated talk
Ignores the trade the Polish brought
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Ignores the men they gave work to
Not plumbing jobs but further too
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Ignores the guys they buy stock from
Accountants, builders, on and on
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And I know it's nice to have someone
To blame our lack of jobs upon
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But immigration's not that plain
Despite the sums inside your brain
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As one for one, as him or you
As if he goes, they'd employ you
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Cos sometimes one that comes makes two
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And sometimes one can add three more
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And sometimes two times two
is much much more than four
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And most times immigrants bring more
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Than minuses.