FLUSHED from Reparations by Naakz

Flushed away in the dirt I found myself drowning
Surrounded by frowning
Hounding on each other
Talking down to one another’s brother
Unconditional love to my mother
Took a long time to figure out what I’m supposed to do
Keep it caveman like the croods
Focus on the good
My green draped in effervescent moods
Surface stays clear
But u know how we do
Hide the pain away for only a minute
Come back in an hour see how you feelin
Pain gets ignored that’s how I’m dealin

But I’m feeling like fried bread
Hot oven in the mornin
ur bars got me yawning
All these other rappers boring
Plz make it interesting
can’t take another bet
Dog collar round neck
All these lies I’ve been fed

Success is a funny thing
Measured by the diamond ring
Such a small thing
To prove ur worth
Is this really what I dreamed
A celebrity fling featured in the news paper
Careful with your words
The enemy could be ur neighbour

You pick left and they pick right
Are U voting for good or are you just voting out spite
or do u abstain and let the past be bigons
Bigots buying tripods
Filming screaming

WHY GOD

why god, why god

Why do they act this way
Perpetuating us
Convincing us that they know the way
Listen to us, we know the truth they say
Pull up all of ur roots and put the past away
But little do they know the type of shit we got stored up
Arrange a meeting with the people only to get stood up

state ur claim
whats ur name?
where u from?
me myself and i
i know what we done

claim ur name
whats ur state?
whos ur mum?
capped beneath the knees
sinkin down pyridium

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And then i got just what you want
Why u acting sorry
When i know its just a front
Stuck inside my head
To get out
I just smoke a blunt
Talking about evil
Why u acting nun

Tell me what u need
And then i got just what you want
Why u acting sorry
When i know its just a front

tell me what u need x4

• Hip-Hop/Rap
• Indigenous Peoples
• abstract hip-hop
• conscious hip-hop
• experimental hip-hop
• maori
• Wellington