SouthSide

Verse 1 278, you already know It ain't really much to look at but it's home Used to bus from the old bar which was to go Into town rolling through Otahuhu depot Thinking how we ended up here Yeah no secret theres some people doing tough here Could be rough here, if your parents come here from an island In the hope of a better life for the child and an education But they ain't got time to keep an eye on 'em They workin' every day, they won't even see retirement School don't teach you to deal with this environment Another poly kid left to his own devices And you look at what they reinforce When they talk about us doing crime, playing sports Standing in the dole line, or in the court Think it don't affect us all? Hook Look at boys from the Southside If you looking from the outside Some scared to death when they see us Cos every 10/7 they featurin' Boys from the Southside But we represent it with pride When you feel you come from the bottom Til you reach the top, ain't no stopping 'em Boys from the Southside Verse 2 It's about time, all the people talking shit now Figure out why, this town is so influential The real melting pot, immigration central Culture, our knives be so instrumental But still we never acting like we too damn special Don't ever let nobody say we all just criminals Round here it ain't all that simple Raised there, struggle city a place where A population, whorey five slash amazing Most of 'em work 9 to 5 to pay rent Go to church and sing songs and pray for better days Better pay and a better location The kids choose sport over education And dream that one day the All Blacks take them Somewhere, exposed to the drugs and the gang life Think it's cool to get involved, end up in the can right Got a lot of teens pushing prams before they see life Cos their parents did the same thing so it seems right Seem right to say the same, a product of pride over law so When they got my back like the tat on my torso That's why I give back, ask where my awards go Hook 2: To the schools in the Southside If you're looking for me outside Some scared of death when they see us Then they talk shit when they leave Like the boys from the Southside Are good for nothing so fuck 'em Give 'em no chance just cuff 'em If it was up to the cops and the judges The boys from the Southside Verse 3 Would be outlined Shot on sight Here we got crime in the area If you got shine then it's any up Only cos we broke tryna get our accounts right What's going in our minds, six words How we gonna get by I dont know exactly But we ain't gonna wait in the dole line Yeah 267 landed a aeroplane Back when my parents came From the islands With a Bible and a pair of J's (yeah Jandals) Trying to set a better way to get our educa- Tions that we found street smarts and a free pass to the green pastures Around these parts we were blessed with the big heart That can see past all the eat asses Aw, what you thought I was gonna talk All about walking with gangs where the drugs be How about I touch on how David Lange ran the country, right where the thugs be John Walker might run at the tops, long distance Scott Dixon on the track now Rather a hand up than a hand down All my people stand down Hook: When I'm back out the Southside Black white with the brown pride Even yellows part of the picture The boy all ups a perfect mixture Here up out the southside Everywhere this shit til the death Walk with my head held high to the sky My T-shirt say Southside til I die The boy from the Southside The bodies outlined with an aura You can see it so clearly I mean it looks like a (?) dairy Or a Scorpians home crowd cheering Or a Otahuhu mums eyes tearing Not when the sons graduated from OC 26 to the 27 to the 29 of the 09 that's where the home be