Sorry Lyrics - Promises & Lies - 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 check 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 

If you say sorry 

Can I assume you've realized 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