Hey little man I\'m gonna need you for a korero

This here says your 12 sit down and have a cordial

Drink driving and ram raiding with a stolen vehicle

Did you need a booster seat to see over the holden\'s steering wheel?

Why\'d you do it? open up you can trust me

Let me guess no one shows you love and life is ugly

You and the bros just having fun outside of rugby

Or you ticked too many tinny\'s and needed funds to pay the cuzzies?

Mean kicks, look I\'ve walked in your shoes

I was raised in a broken home I\'ve endured the abuse

I was addicted to drugs they gave the endorphins a boost

I was caught in a loop with the thought of a noose

You blame it on your upbringing that\'s an excuse

We could offer another road but i know you\'ll refuse

You could prove me wrong please tell the truth

Do the right thing and tell police about your crew.

This is what I know, this is what I see, this is how I was raised to be by family

No offence stop defending your perspective, my mind is made I’m fine with my perspective

You judge a book by it’s cover you don’t know my story, we don’t know each other

No offence stop defending your perspective, my mind is made I’m fine with my perspective

I ain\'t got no statement or time for you crooks

I know exactly where you want me and all of my crew put

You’re too rookie, you probably just read a few books

And yea I\'m 12 years old but I\'m not as stupid as you look

You work for the system, so none of us like you

And you want me to trust you? and snitch on my crew?

Nah fuck you, you know snitching is what I cant do

So don\'t talk all that shit about how you’re walking in my shoes

We do crime cos we have to, not cos we want to

My caregivers an alcoholic and eats all of our food

And when there is money left, he spends it on booze

And i don\'t have a say in the matter and that\'s where I lose

You just want a statement to give to the pig shits

So they can take me away and you can get back to business

You really think I\'m afraid of convictions?

I feel safer in prison, I don\'t have any faith in this system.

This is what I know, this is what I see, this is how I was raised my mentality

When it comes to me I don’t care about your perspective, I only care about how I’m perceived

This is what I know, this is what I see, this is how I was raised my mentality

When it comes to me I don’t care about your perspective, I only care about how I’m perceived

I was left with my father when him and mum divorced

Our whare is where the scum would come to score, every drug endorsed

Crackheads to pill poppers, the local drunken whores

When dad was mad that\'s when I suffered trauma from the bluntest force

Can’t fight back so I\'d punch the walls

I do this for a living helping kids cus I love the cause

I know what it’s like my dad’s nan is maori

So we share the same land you’re just not evolving

I don\'t care that you know until I know that you care

It\'s the way I live my life so please don\'t interfere

And I would tell you the truth but you ain\'t shit

And I ain\'t shit to you, just another pay slip

Ah a shut the fuck up it’s time to listen to wisdom

You seem to think that those in prison are victims

And we\'ve done you wrong because you live in the system

You\'ve caused pain and should be guilt ridden

I\'ve seen on your Facebook page you claim to hate the police

But when your mum left home you went straight to police

And please stop claiming that you\'re raised in the streets

As your standing in a house that your racing to keep

I try to give advice but it’s falling on deaf ears

The bros that you hang with a glorified meth heads

Ride or die’s a joke, an overused expression

You call them snitches we call it confessions

Last week I sat with your sister for a whole day

Listened to her stories and nodding at every false claim

Trust me I can tell you\'ll be a nothing in your old age

Another hood rat but at least you\'ll have a gold chain

And probably a patch what\'s the catch with you gang members?

Calling them family then forgetting your grandparents

And that’s why I voted National

Taxed to pay for your dole is so irrational

You’re a lost cause who mops floors

But still needs money for crack so you rob stores

And you take what is not yours

Your girl gets made then you rock jaws

Just like your dad you’re a lost cause

There\'s too many like you our countries infested

Spit in my face and waste time I\'ve invested

You wonder why I\'m mad you\'re not getting the message

Put yourself in my shoes and view you from my perspective.

This is what I know, this is what I see, this is how I was raised to be by family

No offence stop defending your perspective, my mind is made I’m fine with my perspective

You judge a book by it’s cover you don’t know my story, we don’t know each other

No offence stop defending your perspective, my mind is made I’m fine with my perspective

Here we go again same shit different person

Pretending to be a friend but youre more of a burden

I just wanna get the fuck outta here, put some work in, make an earn, hit the turf, get a blaze and a box of boubons

I would tell you the truth but you don\'t fucking deserve it

I don\'t give my trust to anybody, nah you gotta earn it

You ain\'t in it for the purpose, you\'re just a clown in a circus full of overpromising under delivering social workers

Every home that I\'m placed in

No one is safe and so I feel safer when I\'m with my bros getting wasted

I\'m over this overcomplacent, broken and shameless system

That plays with my emotions for your own entertainment.

You just want that statement to give to the pig shits

So they can take me away and you can get back to business

You really think I\'m afraid of convictions?

I feel safer in prison, I don\'t have any faith in the system.

And when I view you from my perspective, I resent it

You\'re just a white picket fence type that I find offensive

I try defending myself but I\'ll likely end up in cells

So you\'re the last person I would ever try be friends with

And I\'m sick of seeing your fucking faces

I\'m sick of living in these fucking places

My sister ran away cos she was living with a bunch of rapists

Taking advantage of underage\'s

When I see them I\'m punching their fucking face in

And who are you to speak on gangs and my crew cuz

For years they\'ve been taking better care of me than you cunts

And yea I hate the police, cos when I needed them all they did was detain me

Then they took me straight to you cunts

And yea there is too many of us, our countries infested

cos we\'re placed in your care thinking we\'d be protected

Instead we get neglected

Beaten and get molested

Now put yourself in my shoes and view me from my perspective.