Southside-David Dallas/Sid Diamond/Mareko

[ti:Southside] [ar:David Dallas/Sid Diamond/Mareko] [al:Falling Into Place] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Southside - David Dallas/Sid Diamond/Mareko [00:00.45]Lyricist：Sagapolutele/Savelio/Puniani/Maoate [00:00.90]Composer：Puniani/Savelio/Maoate/Sagapolutele [00:01.35]Oh [00:02.30] [00:03.50]Oh [00:04.45] [00:05.81]Oh [00:06.74]Oh [00:07.65]Oh [00:08.62] [00:10.00]Oh [00:10.93] [00:12.05]Oh [00:12.94] [00:14.22]Oh [00:15.48]Oh [00:16.50]Oh [00:17.35]278 you already know [00:19.57]It ain't really much to look at but it's home [00:21.40]Used to bus from the old bar which was to go [00:23.70]Into town rolling through otahuhu depot [00:25.79]Thinking how we ended up here [00:27.35]Yeah no secret theres some people doing tough here [00:29.44]Could be rough here if your parents come here from an island [00:32.23]In the hope of a better life [00:33.77]For the child and an education [00:34.99]But they ain't got time to keep an eye on 'em [00:36.80]They workin' every day [00:37.49]They won't even see retirement [00:38.92]School don't teach you to deal with this environment [00:41.08]Another poly kid left to his own devices [00:42.74]And you look at what they reinforce [00:44.43]Oh [00:45.29]When they talk about us doing crime playing sports [00:47.48]Standing in the dole line [00:48.80]Or in the court [00:49.52]Think it don't affect us all [00:51.09]Look at boys from the Southside Southside [00:53.74]If you looking from the outside [00:55.24] [00:55.81]Some scared to death when they see us [00:57.84]'Cos every 107 they featurin' [00:59.59]Boys from the Southside Southside [01:02.25]But we represent it with pride [01:04.17]When you feel you come from the bottom [01:06.54]'Til you reach the top [01:07.49]Ain't no stopping 'em [01:08.32]Boys from the Southside [01:09.90]It's about time all the people talking sh*t now [01:12.53]Figure out why this town is so influential [01:15.39]The real melting pot immigration central [01:17.64]Culture our knives be so instrumental [01:19.62]But still we never acting like we too d**n special [01:21.76]Don't ever let nobody say we all just criminals [01:24.31]Round here it ain't all that simple [01:26.13] [01:27.48]Oh [01:28.13]Raised there struggle city a place where [01:30.20]A population whorey five slash amazing [01:32.84]Most of 'em work 9 to 5 to pay rent [01:35.07]Go to church and sing songs and pray for better days [01:37.30]Better pay and a better location [01:39.35]The kids choose sport over education [01:41.42]And dream that one day the all blacks take them [01:43.28]Somewhere exposed to the drugs and the gang life [01:45.71]Think it's cool to get involved end up in the can right [01:47.91]Got a lot of teens pushing prams before they see life [01:49.89]'Cos their parents did the same [01:50.94]Thing so it seems right [01:52.34]Seem right to say the same [01:53.50]A product of pride over law so [01:55.16]When they got my back like the tat on my torso [01:57.30]That's why I give back ask where my awards go [01:59.90]To the schools in the Southside Southside [02:02.60]If you're looking for me outside [02:04.00] [02:04.82]Some scared of death when they see us [02:06.84]Then they talk sh*t when they leave [02:08.28]Like the boys from the Southside Southside [02:11.18]Are good for nothing so f**k 'em [02:13.33]Give 'em no chance just cuff 'em [02:15.33]If it was up to the cops and the judges [02:17.33]The boys from the Southside [02:18.72]Would be outlined [02:19.86]Shot on sight [02:20.82]Here we got crime in the area [02:22.72]If you got shine then it's any up [02:24.13]Only 'cos we broke tryna get our accounts right [02:26.50]What's going in our minds [02:28.68]Six words [02:29.67]How we gonna get by [02:31.19]I don't know exactly [02:32.74]But we ain't gonna wait in the dole line [02:34.56]Yeah 267 landed a aeroplane [02:37.37]Back when my parents came [02:38.46]From the islands [02:39.47]With a bible and a pair of J's [02:41.32]Yeah Jandals [02:42.41]Trying to set a better way to get our educa [02:44.61]Tions that we found street smarts and [02:46.16]A free pass to the green pastures [02:48.06]Around these parts we were blessed with the big heart [02:50.27]That can see past all the eat asses [02:52.56]Aw what you thought I was gonna talk [02:54.56]All about walking with gangs where the drugs be [02:56.78]How about I touch on how [02:58.30]David lange ran the country [02:59.87]Right where the thugs be [03:01.03]John walker might run at the tops [03:02.79]Long distance [03:03.77]Scott Dixon on the track now [03:05.35]Rather a hand up than a hand down [03:07.30]All my people stand down [03:08.56]When I'm back out the Southside Southside [03:11.32]Black white with the brown pride [03:12.86] [03:13.71]Even yellows part of the picture [03:15.53]The boy all ups a perfect mixture [03:17.71]Here up out the southside Southside [03:20.11]Everywhere this sh*t 'til the death [03:21.69]Walk with my head held high to the sky [03:23.87]My T shirt say Southside 'til I die [03:26.13]The boy from the Southside [03:27.21] [03:27.74]The bodies outlined with an aura [03:29.49]You can see it so clearly [03:31.19]I mean it looks like a dairy [03:33.35]Or a scorpians home crowd cheering [03:35.46]Or a Otahuhu mums eyes tearing [03:37.58]Not when the sons graduated from O C [03:39.86]26 to the 27 to the 29 of the [03:42.26]09 that's where the home be