Underground

by Synik

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'Underground', featuring Biko Emcee (based in South Africa), a legendary wordsmith and activist explores the struggles of the undocumented immigrant from those labelled 'Kwerekwere' and often subjected to Afrophobic attacks within South Africa’s borders to all those restricted in their movement for having the 'wrong’ nationality, complexion or faith. The song documents a struggle, whose humanity is often lost in the political rhetoric that calls for more walls and less bridges. The song was also partly inspired by the Gilet Noir movement.

lyrics

We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground

Undetected by the radars
Off the books if we ever making some paper
No regular occupation, engaging in mad capers
Evaders of operations thats orchestrated to raid us
Move in shadows, using names we wasn’t born with
Darkness isn’t new to these children of conflict
Exploited daily, no unions rebuking the bosses
Who pay us half our wages to be boosting their profits
Working long shifts, modern enslavement in progress
Dependents back home is why we taking this nonsense
Affecting your mental frame, anxiety becomes the constant
Living prepaid, aint no way way to get a contract
Border jumpers evolving to slum dwellers
Empty building occupiers and seasonal farmworkers
Living like Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Branded illegal so we live how the system demands

We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
They saying kwerekweres are the problem (what)
They say we only there so we can rob them (huh)
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
They wanna make America great
Hiding how the one percent ain’t sharing the cake, yo its deep
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground

Ruzhowa rwemagetsi pamiganhu yematunhu
rwemoto muzhinji-zhinji wekugwinha munhu
Mavanga mumatsimba inzira yemupoteri
Chiokomuhomwe kuti upote neseri
Mumakarwe, mumadziva isu tinotiva
Tinorarama seNyau, izvi garoziva
Zvauri mutema vanongoona chitema
Kuno kumarimuka zveganda zvinorema
Tirimo musango rinorura neruvengo
Tingori vafambi, zvedi tingori varendo
Tisu dandemutande remhare dzaMurenga
Tiri kwese kwese, tiri pasi nekudenga
Pasi inhaka yemunhu, zvipuka, zvimerwa
Ngatibvisei miganhu yatakatemerwa
Akuruma ndiye wako, ziva zvirokwazvo
Nduri dzaGovanwa Godobori, huruyadzo

We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
Mupoteri pota nekuseri
Garoziva zviri mberi
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground
Vanovenga, vanozonda
Ziva mhandu dzinoponda
We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground

We underground
We underground
We underground
We underground

We underground

credits

released February 26, 2021
Synik - Lyrics and Production
Biko Emcee - Lyrics
Vee Mukarati - Saxophone/Clarinet
Tayob Juskow - Production
Janne Halonen - Additional Production