Sorry - UB40

Please don’t say sorry

Presuming a respect for what you say

If in your heart you mean it

Then you’ll understand me feeling

You must prove it;

sign the cheque without delay

Most humbly yours, four hundred years back pay

I’m not begging charity

Don’t confuse the things I say

Give me what belongs to me

Give me what belongs to me

Just don’t say sorry

As if that can excuse this tyranny

No value in your talking

Money speaks and bullshit’s walking

Round in circles re-inventing history

Trying to erase our memory

I’m not begging charity… Etc

If you say sorry

Can I assume you’ve realised the shame

The seeds of your oppression

Fall and ripen with aggression

You can’t hold us any longer with your chains

Time to compensate us for our claims

Don’t bother wi' no sorry

Don’t bother wi' delay

A four hundred years

Is not just the other day

I’m not begging charity

Don’t confuse up your mind

Payment overdue

Fe a long long time

You come a we gate

No bother hesitate

You tek away we tings

Like a damn pirate