Asian Dub Foundation Songs - Free Satpal Ram Lyrics

Asian Dub Foundation - Free Satpal Ram

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Album: Rafi's Revenge
Released: 1998

Free Satpal Ram Lyrics

And we say back way to all the trouble makers
Better fix up your brains because you are the biggest fakers
Come in the place better know who you are
Self defence is no offence
The scales of justice are weighed down on one side
Freemasons on the case you know you're gonna get a rough ride
Hold tight even if you know your rights
It's just a piece of paper unless you're prepared to fight

For ten years one hell of a long time
To rot in a cell when you've committed no crime
Another innocent man forced to carry the can
Free Satpal Ram
Free Satpal Ram
Another innocent man
Whose word against who?
Whose word against who?
The degenerate crew
Out on the town thought they had something to prove
Self defence - only offence - had to protect himself from all the murdering fools
Cutting remarks on account of his race
A plate to his chest and a glass to his face
An Asian fights back can't afford to be meek
With your back against the wall you can't turn the other cheek

And its back way to all the trouble makers
Better fix up your brain because you're the biggest fakers
Come in the place better know who you are
Free Satpal Ram
Another innocent man

Birmingham six
Bridgewater four
Crown prosecution totting up the score
Kings Cross two
Guildford four
Winston Silcott - man how many more ?
Satpal attacked in a restaurant by racists
Now the brother's been locked up on a life time basis
Convicted of murder but what's never mentioned
Self defence was his only intention

ADF once again taking to the stand
Witness the jailing of an innocent man
Kicking up a fuss because it could happen to us
Time to join in the fight back
Because enough is enough
And it's back way to all the trouble makers
Better fix up your brains because you're the biggest fakers
Come in the place better know who you are

Free Satpal Ram

Writer/s: DAS, ANIRUDDHA / PANDIT, JOHN / SAVALE, STEVEN / TAILOR, SANJAY / ZAMAN, SAIDULLAH
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Free Satpal Ram

This track tells the story of a controversial murder case, that of Satpal Ram, a Birmingham Asian who was jailed for life in June 1987 after defending himself against a racially motivated attack by a group of white men. At least that is the story that was parroted by Ram's supporters including Asian Dub Foundation, the British band Primal Scream, and most of the British media. The truth though is rather different. Satpal Ram stabbed a stranger in a drunken frenzy in an Indian restaurant in November 1986. His victim, Clarke Pearce, had asked for the music to be turned down; Ram objected and stabbed Pearce in the back with a flick knife - an illegal weapon - gloated over him as he lay dying, then fled the scene of the crime with the murder weapon still in his hand. The victim's elder sister and his fiancé were present at the time of the murder, and both testified at Ram's trial.

Ram appealed his murder conviction twice; his second appeal was dismissed in a strongly worded judgment by Lord Justice Beldam in November 1995, but in June 2002, the lies of Ram's supporters finally paid off, and he was paroled still protesting his innocence, and vowing to fight on to clear his name. Alas, he soon reverted to type. In May the following year his life licence was revoked following allegations of assault and criminal damage, and he remained unlawfully at large until he was arrested in April 2005, assaulting two police officers in the course of his detention.