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81 Bok
04:32
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81 Bok 1981
“When the baton come down, don’t you be surprised (repeat). We don’t hurt nobody till we see the whites of their eyes (repeat). So when the charge is on, shuffle down the line, when the charge is on, don’t get left behind.”
“You ain’t tricking nobody, by walking the razor fine (repeat). You're just stricken in body behind the Specials line (repeat). So c’mon choose your stance, don’t get left behind, c’mon choose your stance but don’t step into mine.”
“When all the shouting dies down and the tears are wiped away. When all the shouting dies down and the tear gas washed away. There’ll be no more tears, no more games to play (repeat). And all the kicking and shouting won’t stop the pig being born. And all the ‘move move move,’ don’t say you were not warned.”
Well it's many years since the smoking gun.
Many many years but now the voting's done.
And the only fire is the setting sun.
Apartheid, you're a setting sun.
And on our rugby fields,
new growth's begun.
On our rugby fields the games goes on on on
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2. |
Ahiaruhe
04:57
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3. |
Darkness
03:15
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4. |
Foot Blues
03:48
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Foot blues (1972)
“Hope to leave here in the morning, find my head and leave this floor. But it looks like everybody is headed for the door.
I might not leave here, I could stay here, stay here for some time. But I just can’t shake that feeling off. Somebody’s foot is on the line.”
My head is shaking in the wonder,
of this country where I live.
Just trying to find a deeper hole.
to stick my head right in.
It seems a shame it tends to make your,
make your makeup run.
Cause they can't look you in the eye,
when they know you're in the gun.
Well they all line up to tell me,
I should swim the other way.
The current is so treacherous.
Besides I'll like the pay.
But it seems to easy
,you see I'd hoped to leave this time.
But when I pick up that telephone.
Somebody's. foot comes through the line
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5. |
Te momo o te tangata
03:27
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6. |
Hearts of Stone
03:12
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Hearts of stone 1988
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“I’ve seen you alone and all. When just a smile could break your fall. I’ve had you stranded on my wires, listening to my lines, climbing up my wall.
In 89 you broke a bone.
It's 93 your boy has grown.
Our hearts have mended on the way,
through tears that drain the pain away,
melting down our hearts of stone,
You said you'd stay until we die,
I note the warning in your eye.
Won't give you time to unpack,
your feelings on my back.
My number's on the dial.
Let's stay a while,
And I can make you smile.
The open door you can't unlatch,
cause this time there is a catch.
You're not a lady in distress,
you're a mission I confess,
and I've met me match.
I don't get the catch.
It’s called left-brain technology, the dolphin breaks through to the sea. Release the floodgates deep inside. Stamping out the foot of pride. But must you walk all over me.”
And these hips, will do the walking.
And these lips, they'll do the talking
Walk walk walk walk
Talk talk talk talk
Walk talk talk walk.
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Locked at the Jaw
02:30
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8. |
Mr Henry
02:04
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“Do you add value, to my merchandise? Just hang on now, to my purchasing price. Mr Henry, you’re taxing my, liability.”
Mr Henry (from CD Tu Tangata 2001)
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9. |
Origins
02:54
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10. |
Personal Blues
03:53
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Personal blues 1992
“Personal blues for the personal man,
tall and slim, a catch if you can. Got you covered, life story, one column wide. Good sense of humour, the passionate kind. Delivers on Sunday with a sensitive side. Got the story, life story, your personal blues.
Personal blues for the personal woman, professional lady, non-smoker. Get the picture, not the ashtray. Likes to go out, good music and wine, but could stay at home and have a good time. Got the story, life story, your personal blues.”
Personally lonely, personally tired, personally friendless, personally wired. Drop your money, we give you the code, to unload, Deliver your heartfelt plea at the tone, your life in two minutes costs six bucks on this phone, to tell your story, your life story, your personal blues.
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“It’s 95 now and it’s near closing time, for last submissions, have them dotted on the line. If you can’t see to sign, your footprint will do, like taking prints and liberties, your mark will see you through.
It’s been years now, and I’ve been training too, to get alongside, treating partners true. I’ve been to school, integration, even lived next door. Tomorrow’s Schools, tomorrow’s fools, even made it to the board.
But small change is, a fiscal envelope. It’s open-fisted, you can’t repay we’re broke. Try that line at trading time with partners old and new. A debt’s a debt, we won’t forget, full payment is what’s due.”
Po Po / Kopaki Putea 1995 (from CD Tu Tangata 2001)
“It’s so unsettling, your deft apology. Did you invent it, this thing called equity? It’s just a legal fiction, sign the deed and then ignore. You’ve cleared the slate of angst and hate. I think you wiped the floor, with your guilt feelings, and the high ground that you took. Keep your status and your pine trees that outlook, Tamaki Makaurau they lust for you and still, south of Bombay, Tainui-way is settling the bill.”
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Taita Town
03:15
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“I remember Dexter Dutton, like I remember the Clithero Kid, faceless voices from my fifties childhood, I keep hid.
It all comes back so clearly now, the Hutt line from the train. It all comes back so dreary now,
Petone in the rain, we’d say Pet One for a game, but now it’s Pito-one in the rain.”
Taita Town 1998
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Tamaki
03:23
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Tamaki 1981
The rates have got your city,
the race has claimed your car.
Your peddling back installments growing old.
It's a wonder you can see the dirt,
in your laundered Cardign shirt
Credit cards flash in days of old.
Takes a deal to take your life
insurance for perhaps the wife.
From the span it's still a long way down.
Churchmen steer you on the way,
credit for a;latter day.
The saviour's doing business here in town..
(Chorus)
From where I stand, just from where I stand. From where I stand, just from where I stand.”
“Your motorways have bled like veins. City fathers and their dames, have welcomed the accountant to their heart. His answer is an unsigned cheque. Bankrupt overdrawn and yet, the debt can’t even be repaid in part.
(Chorus)
From where I stand, just from where I stand. From where I stand, just from where I stand.”
Ashamed to leave put out the cat,
a trade-in gives you more than that.
The old folks won't fetch much this time around.
You ask me why I stay and say,
it murdered her, Kicks Cabaret.
You've quartered up, you've sold the welcome mat.
(Chorus)
From where I stand, just from where I stand. From where I stand, just from where I stand.”
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14. |
Upoko Blues
04:05
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Upoko Blues
I've got the 'Worried course numbers
12.5 students blues.'
Got the right socks matching in my Whakapakari shoes.
(Chorus)
Upoko Blues
only in my head.
KIa kaha kia maia kia manawanui,
Kia better not said.
Rosalyn, your policy drives me wild.
Roslyn, your policy drives me wild,
You've been hanging around the Backbencher,
lots of cheap talk and wine.
All your pens are known to me,
your plans are so unkind.
You're a Commerce child.
“Seen the cut of your suited one, here he come, David. Talk of Tuwharetoa, here he come, David. How come nobody talks to me, nobody takes my time. Nobody wants my number, my fax is unverified. Is my policy, jaded?”
Rosalyn, your frequency drives me wild.
Rosalyn, your frequency drives me 42 dbw wild,
I asked you for your footprint,
you never asked for mine.
I must have 10 thousand listeners,
or we all must be,
broadcasting blind.
(Chorus)
Kia better off dead.
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15. |
Whaanga
03:15
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Piripi Whaanga Whanau New Zealand
Irish/NZ Maori
leprechauns/
mischief makers ...a family of musicians and singers from down in the
Pacific.
Original songs of contemporary New Zealand/
Aotearoa told through the journeys of the Piripi Whaanga Whanau.
... more
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