Crown

Trapped inside a system that wants to lock you in a cage

Born into crime and poverty, numbered are your days

The system doesn't want you here, saying you're the ones to blame

Push the people into the dirt, and you claim we're all the same

A loaded crown (loaded crown) just to weigh us down

Prison cell agenda keeps us bound

Culture for profit and deaf to the sound (deaf to the sound)

A loaded crown just to weigh us down

He tikanga ture I hangaia kia taka mai ai tātou

Tūkinotia mai te mahi Kuinitanga

Ka taea te whakaora mamae I tuku iho mai?

Whakahokia te mana o ngā iwi o Aotearoa

A loaded crown (loaded crown) just to weigh us down

Prison cell agenda keeps us bound

Culture for profit and deaf to the sound (deaf to the sound)

A loaded crown just to weigh us down

An institution built to fail

Staying hidden beyond the veil

Taikaha, tarukino

Tāhae, whakaherehere

Taikaha, tarukino

Tāhae, whakaherehere

I'll return to where I belong

Restore my roots and undo the wrong

Fight the tides of an imbalanced law

Can't wash away the mana in us all!

A loaded crown (loaded crown) just to weigh us down

Prison cell agenda keeps us bound

Culture for profit and deaf to the sound (deaf to the sound)

A loaded crown just to weigh us down

You can't weigh us down!