(NZ Culture) NZ Music

Aluminum Foil

Royals

Brown Girl


Snow Bound - the Chills


There is no Depression


French Letter


System Virtue


Etu


Dark Son

Brown Girl

I'm more than the ______ of my skin

I'm a girl that likes to sing

All I know is what's _____

Not just a brown girl in the ring

Go to school and ____ their ____

Told how to think and what to say

While my mother says to pray

I pray for better ____

God, please help them see

They ain't no different from me

Not above, not _____

Teach them equality

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm more than ____ they think of me

More than the colour ____ that they see

More than urban, R&B, more than a ____ that I speak

Close your eyes, don't say your word

Don't speak about what you seen or _____

Let's pretend that it's OK

Just the way the _____ likes to play

Look in my eyes, look in my eyes

I can't lie, I can't lie

All these years of my life

I'm _____ from the ______

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

And if you don't know by now

Time will show you what I'm talking 'bout

Said if you don't know by now

Time will show you what I'm talking 'bout

I'm talking 'bout

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

French Letter

Herbs

Can you see yourself, under a coconut tree
Wanting for nothing, or maybe a cooler breeze
Where all things romantic, in the south pacific
And the only peace is the spit on a feast, your feast yeah

Do you know what makes the ocean glow
Do you know what makes the ocean glow
When unwelcome guests, are making nuclear tests
Are making nuclear tests, are making nuclear tests
Are making nuclear tests

Oh yes, no nukes hah ahhhhhhh
Nuclear mis energy, nuclear, nuclear, free yo yo yo yo yo

Is there nothing at all who can appease your greed
Could you please leave the air we breath
Why is it something we’ve done
You all seem to forget
About nuclear fallout and the long term effects

Is there anything gained when you hide the plane
Anything gained when you hide the plane
Let me be more specific, get out of the pacific
Ki te la pacific, get out of the pacific
Ki te la pacific

Nuclear free yeah

There is no depression in New Zealand

Blam Blam Blam

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    there are no sheep on our farms,

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    we can all keep perfectly calm,

Everybody's talking about World War Three;

    everybody's talking about World War Three,

But we're as safe as safe can be,

    there's no unrest in this country

We have no dole queues,

    we have no drug addicts,

        we have no racism,

            we have no sexism, sexism, no, no

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    there are no teeth in our heads

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    we sleep in a well made bed

Oh but everybody's talking about World War Three,

    yes everybody's talking about World War Three,

But we're as safe as safe can be,

    there's no unrest in this country

We have no SIS,

    we have no secrets,

        we have no rebellion;

            we have no valium, valium, no, no

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    there are no sheep on our farms,

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    oh we can all keep perfectly calm,

        perfectly calm,

            perfectly calm,

                perfectly calm,

                    perfectly calm...

Etu

Karanga, rangatahi, whakarongo, whakarongo

We're nga tamatoa, so we must light te ahi

Don't get led astray by Babylon, kia mau ki to Maori

There's a lot of people who think they're tough today

But chiefs like Te Rauparaha woulda blown dem away, Cher!

Hone Heke he expressed his disgust by

cutting down the flagpole, huh

Pakeha killed Maori inna Matawhero

So Te Kooti exacted it in a slaughter.

Yes, the Maori battalion inna World War Two

Staunch on the battlefield they had many clues

Like Moana Ngarimu on hill 209, Victoria Cross so true so strong

Yes the Maori was a bad warrior

Strike fear in the hearts of the Babylon soldier

Yeah its true, yeah its true, that's why I'm talking to you

Kia kaha, kia kaha two one two two

E Tu

Stand Proud

Kia Kaha

Say It Loud

The man who tried to kill him was Von Tempsky

But he became a victim of his own folly

Cause Titokowaru was too smart you see,

Guerilla warfare, huh, Maori

The British raided a Pa they thought it'd be a victory

But Kawiti fooled the enemy

The British raided the Pa yeah but they got shot down

Cause Kawiti had a plan and it was sound, break down

Te Rangihaeata believes in holding land

Against the foe, yo, the British man

To him land's essential to the mana of the chief

And in the Hutt there were some hardcore feats

In 1846 in the Hutt Valley I said

Fighting broke out between the British and the Maori

And more than one settler on disputed land

Was killed when the Maori fought the British Plan

Cause white rule and injustice go hand in hand

So against that is where we stand

Don't forget those who've fought before

Our struggle continues more and more

Yeah it's a struggle, it's a struggle

The system's got us in a muddle

So strive to get outta this puddle.

Well I always put my mind to the rhyme

Don't wear no gold chains cause we ain't that kind

Don't neva rap and say I think I'm cool

Just preach the truth with us that's a rule

Yeah, rising inflation to me is a crime

And sport is politics so don't mess with my mind

They falsely own our land so they really don't

We've been ripped off man so shut up I won't

You gotta learn the history to know where ya truly are

Learn it somehow this ignorance has gone too far

Have self determination in what ya gonna do

Kia kaha, kia mau ki to Maori

Don't let no-one stand on you.

Dark Child

My little blonde haired blue eyed boy

One day you’ll grow up and be distressed

One day you’ll grow up and regret everything

I’ve set up out for you

My only dear long wasteful son

One day you’ll wonder what you’ve become

One day all this could be yours

If you only had the will to outlive you mother and I

Looking in from the outside

Couldn’t see it was true

Oh my dear dark child

I’ve been waiting for you

Looking in from the outside

Couldn’t see it was true

You’ve been given too much time

Oh my darling I’ve been waiting for you

Waiting for you

Waiting for you

Waiting for you

Although the news came as no surprise

I always hoped I’d never have to bury a child