10-02-2005 | |
V.I.P.
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I've just joined a community on livejournal about her, and this was posted.
![]() I thought that I would share, and I've very generously bolded the lines that I think are fantastic. Also, I've been discussing the purple haze reference, and while I agree that it does likely reference Jimmy Hendrix and drugs, I also believe that it's about more than that. If you watch the video again, you see that the purple is used to illustrate some bombings and there is repeated imagery of tanks and grenades as well. "I have an art book M.I.A. had published in 2002 by Pocko (http://www.pocko.com) as part of their arts series in association with Diesel. It's published under her real name Maya Arulpragasam. I bought it for a fiver a year or so ago in a bookshop in Soho in London. Justine Frischmann, former leader singer of Elastica, has written a foreward for the book aswell. It's got loads of her artworks and the back of the book is a flipbook featuring her lyrics, i'll write them for you here: History Dead Time for Herstory i'm a casualty, a war refugee not black and white like a referee missing in action gone to start a revolution freedom fighter get injection he no act, he get no reaction my freedom fighting dad they bombed his pad called him a terror and put him on wanted ads kaliana from sri lanka done too long being foreigner eng-a-land now her homeland from the time she came as immigrant she done found her culture culture she eat curry curry dance to ragga she hates police whatever country she loves refugees whatever country i don't think i'm anything coloured, christian, hindu, muslim world too small, evolution fast ethnic cleansing never worked in the past the colour of my system reflects the spectrum rainbow people are in this season you pay your taxes to arm a soldier we fight we get called offender you can be a follower but who's the leader you leader you lead come chizzle my nizzle break the cycle or it will kill ya." Last edited by purplelucrezia; 10-02-2005 at 02:13 PM. |
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