| Tynes, Tynes
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| Real talk, New Zealand wassup?
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| Stop the violence (yeah)
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| I see a lot of pain going on around the country
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| We got too many people with no money living roughly
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| Our kids are goin' hungry and go to school starvin'
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| Some are being killed with a rate so alarmin'
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| What makes a man wanna kill his own infant?
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| And after he’s done it he doesn’t feel any different
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| His fam don’t speak about abuse that they witness
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| Choosing to keep and be ashamed that they live with
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| Look, we got a sickness, outta control and widespread
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| How many more innocent kids we gonna find dead?
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| How many more will get attacked and violated?
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| And before they grow up they already react with hatred
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| We need to change and face off our demons
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| Eliminate the genocide that we are breathin'
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| We got too many fiendin' drugs, liquor and gamblin'
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| I’m not here to judge, I feel what you are battlin' (yeah)
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| But on the real, envision when you are older
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| Where you wanna be, free or in a cell, hold up? |
| (ayo)
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| Get a hold of yourself and choose a better route
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| Never be the name on the news that I read about
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| No doubt, our cities are more violent
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| From all the way down south to the North Island
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| People are bein' killed over t-shirt colours
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| While others are runnin' drugs and givin' P to the youngsters
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| Say no son, your life’s only begun
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| You can pick wrong or right and the man that you become
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| And you won’t find peace in a pipe and no bottle
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| So lead by example and be a role model
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| Put our heads together and stop the violence
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| Put our heads together and stop the violence
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| Put our heads together and stop the violence
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| Put our heads together and stop the violence
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| Dedicated to beautiful Mia
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| I had a vision of a beautiful girl
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| Maybe twelve years old and brand new to the world
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| She’s gonna be anything that she choose in this world
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| Lives life like she got something to prove to this world
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| And I hope she gets all the things she dreams of
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| But things aren’t always what they seem 'cause
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| Mia’s had a hard life, it’s plain to me
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| But most people can’t see 'cause the pain’s too deep
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| How she tries to achieve, despite her past
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| I hear the joy that she brings everytime she laughs
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| From a distance she’s just a normal kid in her class
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| But up-close, you see that she bears the scars
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| Of a hard life, lived in a home without a heart
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| And a home without a heart can take your life before it starts
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| And the truth is, Mia never made it that far
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| And this is all a dream that I caught in the stars
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| 'Cause in reality she’s drawn in this world that’s cold
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| When they killed baby Mia she was three years old
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| Yeah they tortured, they beat her with no remorse
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| How I wish I coulda held her and taken the force
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| Of the blows that were inflicted on an innocent victim
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| So young she couldn’t even understand the pain
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| For everytime she cried out and nobody came
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| I feel ashamed of my people, though we’re not the same
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| And what the fuck is wrong with you?
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| Abused her and left her
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| You were the ones who were supposed to protect her
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| Betrayed our people and all that we are
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| And this song’s for Mia and may she live in our hearts
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| Forever, lest we forget who we are in the end
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| But for all of our sake it never happens again
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| Forever, and ever I’m in
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| She lives forever, forever I’m in
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| Put our heads together and stop the violence
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| Put our heads together and stop the violence
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| Put our heads together and stop the violence
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| Put our heads together and stop the violence |