Love Me - Intellectual

*Door opens*

{Hook}

Love me love me love me, say it

Let me fly away with you

{Verse 1}

We fly across the sea to a better destination

Give your brothers and sisters a better education

But you come over here and you do something else

Why? Hurry up open your mouth

You wanna be a street kid? Huh? (No)

Then why you fight? Why you not listen to the teachers?

Why you not come to church to help sing his praise

Only bring disgrace make me shame to show my face

That's why I hit you, its the only way you listen

And don't you ever think I'm scared to go to prison

Who you think gonna love you?

When we die tomorrow do you think another family gonna want you?

No 'cause you useless

You only good at excuses and listening to that stupid music

We send you to school, become a doctor or a lawyer

Instead the principal call pick you up from the foyer

I told you only make a friends with the white kids

The kids from the islands is only make the violence

And they join with the gangs

Look at Julie and Sonny

Julie is work in the office and Sonny is play the rugby

And look at you nothing

(But that's not me) just waste the money

Mum is say take you to go stay with your aunty in Samoa

No gang, no TV, no computer (oh nah)

And you see what they do to a loser

If I know you gonna grow up to be a dumb kids

When you a baby I throw you in the rubbish

I wish somebody is come and take you

But it's not happen 'cause everybody hate you

(No they don't)

They say oh look at that street kids answer back to his parents

Ohhhh they must be embarrass

So its better you go live on the street

And go in the toilet to find you something to eat

'Cause you waste of time

I tell you read the bible but you never change your mind

Argh I can't wait to die

This is the work of the devil

Please Jesus put a curse on this rebel so this hurt can settle

We raise you be a good boy I don't know what's happen

And tell your friend if I catch him I'm gonna smash him

(Nah leave him alone)

'Cause look he make u do all the dumb things

And you...

Wait wait, I wanna say something

{Hook}

Love me love me love me, say it

Let me fly away with you

{Verse 2}

I know what you went through and I know where you came from

'Cause all my life you've been singing that same song

I don't wanna sit in the can or run with a gang (why)

Because I give a damn but you just don't understand

I was looking for a fam, they looked at me as a man

You and mum don't agree but that is what I am

But you take that away calling me all types of names

Leaving scars on my legs and up and down my face

Then when I'm at school how can I not feel out of place

'Cause those aren't memories a pc can help erase

People say I'm humble, but really I'm just shy

That's why I mumble and can't look them in the eye

So whats the point of school (what you say) wait just listen

Not everyone is built for a life of submission

Not everyone can persevere through this sort of adversity

Then make it to a uni or some form of tertiary

That requires desire and a healthy self esteem

Picking upon my character isn't helping me

And church? Man that's the last place I wanna be

With a bunch hypocrites in glass houses judging me

('Cause you the devil)

And yeah maybe I should hang around with the white kids

Maybe they're not prone 'cause they're not exposed to violence

If they were they would be followed by a path of sirens

But you can beat me at church and no one bats an eyelid

Have you ever thought you brought that with me from the islands

Have you ever thought to talk? Have you even tried it

Do you realize I'm going through a transition

How can I see a good future if I have bad vision

You sent me to school I was fortunate no less

Apart from my reports you never checked on my progress

A flower doesn't blossom if nature ignores it

So how can I be successful if I'm not conditioned for it

Too many of us have fallen by the wayside

And your oblivious to the fact that something just ain't right

You see white kids on the news you blame on it the parents

When you see us on the news you say its 'cause we're bad kids

Thats it? In other communities parents don't get immunity

From their kids acting out their insecurities

(Oh u blame us?) No your missing the point

(No u blame us, mum go get the extension cord)

{Hook}

Love me love me love me, say it

Let me fly away with you

{Verse 3}

That's your kids problem you got no respect

We're taught to respect everyone but ourselves what do you expect?

You beat the shit out of a dog and treat it like shit

And then you turn around wonder why you got bit

If I teach a dog its clever by now

But you haven't taught yourself to get it together by now

Look at Joe's son he never answer back

He got a good job and buy a car after that

What about Mary's son? He's sitting in jail

And Will? What about Will? He talks about killing himself

Ahh you know nothing, he's just possessed

What are you talking about? Will is fucking depressed

Just last week he sent everyone a text

But his sister sprung him just before he hung his neck

And if things don't change any one of us is next

But you don't see that and brush it off as just a threat

(Oh bullshit)

And then you mourn us but it's too late we've ended it

If you just broke the cycle you could've prevented it

(What cycle?)

You presented it, we grow up and perpetuated it

Then spend the rest of our fucking lives trying to break it

Listen to your mouth, can you hear yourself?

Yep, I sound like history repeating itself

Instead of seeking help for your anger we'll see it out

'Cause God forbid feelings are something you speak about

The bible say, "Honor your mother and your father"

'Cause you never get another and you only gonna suffer

Fuck! Do you it's hard to raise up a family

No skills for anything, only work in a factory

Only live in a government house, never make it out

Never have the money to buy the food or pay the house

Do you? Never good at school, never have a shoes

Do you know? Do you?

{Hook}

Love me love me love me, say it

Let me fly away with you

Love me love me love me, say it

*Door closes*