| That thing, I walk by the river
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| Remembering the days of young
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| My mum, the food she delivered
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| Our bellies were so full and fun
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| We heard a plane in the air flying up above
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| The enemy from overseas (The sea)
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| I grabbed my family by the hands and we ran away
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| We’re running from the enemy
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| No roots, no roots, no culture
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| We’re running from the enemy
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| No roots, no roots, no culture
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| I’m hiding with my family
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| Insid a room we would hide when th sun was gone
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| So quiet as we hid through the night
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| I heard a man through the window on the telephone
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| They’re searching for my family and I
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| I take a chance with the gun holding in my hand
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| Behind it, we would seek through the night
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| I pulled the trigger to his head, now his life is gone
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| My family we are free for the night
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| Say, no roots, no roots, no culture
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| We’re hiding in the thick of the night
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| No roots, no roots, no culture
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| My family will fight for our lives
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| There’s no price they can put on our name
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| My hearts fighting in the game
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| They tried to take my family apart
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| It’s a war that you don’t want to start
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| And now the tables have turned on the enemy
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| Almighty God has answered my cries
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| Sometimes a friend is also a frenemy
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| They’re smiling with them lying eyes
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| Just like in life, there’s a war everywhere around
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| And you can be the shining light
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| They took their bombs, their guns, the enemy
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| They’re running in the dead of the night
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| Our roots, our roots, our culture
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| No one can take that feeling from me
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| Our roots, our roots, our culture
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| The power of the totara tree, yeah
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| Our roots, our roots, our culture
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| No one can take that feeling from me, no
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| Our roots, our roots, our culture
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| The power of the totara tree |