Kiss Ya Lips (No I.D.)

I, I ain't no number
Don't need no ID round my neck
So Mr Politician
Got born and named like blood runs red
'Cause I, I ain't no number
Don't require no ID round my neck
So Mr number maker
ID cards don't stop no hijack jet

Think, think of a number
Think and choose a number one to ten
If five, five, five's your number
Times that five by two to make a ten
'Cause I, I ain't no number
Don't need no ID round my neck
So Mr number maker
ID cards don't stop no hijack jet

My little girl keep dancing
Kiss Ya lips and love yourself so right
Clock Mr number maker
Wants your fingerprints your ass and eye
To stipulate your identification
Got born and raised like blood runs red
Wants to slip a microchip in my lip
'Cause loose lips sink ships
Keep it shake ya hips
Keep it kiss ya lips

I ain't no number
Don't need no ID run my neck
So my little girl keep dancing
ID cards don't stop no hijack jet

So my little girl keep dancing
ID cards don't stop no hijack jet
So my little girl keep dancing
ID cards don't stop no hijack jet

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Details:
Kiss Ya Lips (No I.D.) is a house based attack against the proposal by former Home Secretary David Blunkett to introduce national ID cards. In a Manchester Online interview (24/09/04), Ian stated that his music was more focused on social commentary post-9/11. This song is a criticism of the civil liberties that would be lost by this reaction to 9/11 by the British government. The Pet Shop Boys also criticised British national identity card plans on 'Integral', from their 2006 album, 'Fundamental'. A statement from a band spokesman cites the issue as the reason that Tennant ceased his well-publicized support of Tony Blair's Labour Party.

“It seems like they are going to bring these in through the back door, like they are for our protection. But they're not; they're keeping tabs on us all. I don't like the idea of a Big Brother society. The guy (Kamel Bourgass) who was picked up for ricin, he had a false ID. It's not going to stop anything.” (Ian Brown speaking to EDP24, 17 July 2005)

Emerging scandals led to the resignation of David Blunkett from the post of Home Secretary on 15th December 2004, and Work and Pensions Secretary on 2nd November 2005.

The line "'Cause loose lips sink ships" is taken from 2Pac's 'I Get Around', from his 1993 album 'Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.'

Finger tips on the hips as I dip, gotta get a tight grip, don't slip
Loose lips sink ships, it's a trip
I love the way she licks her lips, see me jocking
Put a little twist in her hips 'cause I'm watching

The line has its origin in posters during World War II that stressed the importance of discretion among Allied soldiers and those at home. Millions volunteered or were drafted for military duty during World War II. The majority of these citizen-soldiers had no idea how to conduct themselves to prevent inadvertent disclosure of important information to the enemy and so the government established rules of conduct to remedy this. Central to maintaining national security was the Office of War Information's drive to limit talk about the war in both the public and private arenas of American life. Silence meant security.

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