{"id":65,"date":"2016-10-05T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/political-asylum\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:56:00","slug":"political-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/political-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nPOLITICAL ASYLUM<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel January 1981 Middlesbrough<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI woke up early to a thud on the door<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTwo burly men with a smile on jaw<\/span><\/div>\n
\n\u201cWhat do you want?<\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
\n\u201cWe want you,<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\nYour stay in this country is through through through<\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
\n“We\u2019re the deportation squad. the deportation squad<\/i>.”<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI can\u2019t go back to my country of origin<\/span><\/div>\n
\nChances of survival are not even thin<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThey\u2019ll do me in,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn, in, in<\/span><\/div>\n
\nMust be something you can do do do<\/span><\/div>\n
\n“We\u2019re the deportation squad, the deportation squad<\/i>.”<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBridge<\/span><\/div>\n
\nHelp me \u2013 help me \u2013 I need asylum<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nHelp me \u2013 help me \u2013 Political Asylum<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYour permit ran out a month ago<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo you the country\u2019s door we must show<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNothing we can do<\/span><\/div>\n
\nEven if we wanted to<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYour stay in this country is through, through through<\/span><\/div>\n
\n“We\u2019re the deportation squad, the deportation squad<\/i>“<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNow you better come with us<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSave some energy, cut out the fuss<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe love blacks<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn our cells<\/span><\/div>\n
\nCos we can give them hell hell hell<\/span><\/div>\n
\n“We\u2019re the deportation squad, the deportation squad<\/i>.”<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBridge\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nMy friendship with the dictator\u2019s nil<\/span><\/div>\n
\nMy politics they make him ill<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou must\u2019ve heard<\/span><\/div>\n
\nHe only knows one word<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd that word is “kill kill kill<\/i>“<\/span><\/div>\n
\n“We\u2019re the execution squad, the execution squad<\/i>.”<\/span>
\n
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\n………………………..<\/span>
\nI worked with an African guy from Malawi. He was the nicest, most trustworthy and intelligent guy at the firm.he was over int he UK to do a degree in Electrical technology. When it came time to return,he applied for Political Asylum as his parents had be arrested and tortured by the dictator for being part of the Malawi Labour Party. Naturally he was afraid to return and suffer the same fate. the decision was delayed.One day the police arrived at his home and arrested him.He spent a year in jail with racist bullies who gave him such a bad time. I had left Coventry by then and on my return met him in The wedge Cafe.he was a shadow of himself, Looking down at his feet, no confidence.They had released him and granted him political Asylum but only after he had been imprisioned and beaten up. Exactly the reason he didn’t want to return to his own country.He told me his story and I was mad angry and wrote this song for him.<\/span>
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\n<\/span><\/div>\n


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Political Asylum Trev Teasdel<\/a> from Trev Teasdel<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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