'For the life of me' sample playing
It's like I'm stuck in this routine
It's like my life's mapped out like a movie
And exposed to the naked flame
Trying to make the pay working the shifts day to day
Living off the un-drained takeaways
I'm up early when the birds chirp
Ever since I wrote my first verse
I've been working towards making an album
Still living in state houses Still working the late hours
I'm straight double shifting now
Cos back in the day I was a trouble mischief
Thrown in the deep end the hard slog
Just to get hammered on the weekend
The old school ways always got fill cupboards and plenty beers
For busting their guts at the same place for 20 years
I'd rather try and fail trial and error
Then driven by the sole fear of not making it anywhere
When I feel kind of lost I remember I'm here
I talk to myself when nobody would lend me an ear
I need you right now all(Prince Tui Teka)
All my whanau all my friends I'ma need you all til the very end
I've got a dream to make music for a living
And travel the world and go places that I thought I wouldn't
I'd take my family and my kidz with me
Cos everyday I might be busy
But I'd always make time for my misses and the tamariki
Cos without that nothing would be worth anything on this earth
Its shelf life since birth it's the curse of man-kind
If you ain't got health on your side
You can't spend a damn dime and enjoy it
I ain't flushing my dreams down the toilet
I'm so broke right now I can't afford unemployment
And Baycorp knocking on the door final warning
Notice on the fricken wall so annoying and every single day
I keep coming up with rhymes but my mum she tells me hurry up
You're running out of time
Put it down put it out and try and stay focused
Just listen Mum it's important I think you should know this...
I need you right now all(Prince Tui Teka)
All my whanau all my friends I'ma need you all til the very end
Well it's a hard road tryna crack it
I've seen a lot of talent come and gone that couldn't hack it
This industry is cut-throat oh-well just as well I'm a noble savage
I've got no problems taking if it's dope or cabbage
I always try to give it to hundy on a track
It always makes it easier cos Mumzies got my back
I love Aotearoa flavour because it always brings me back
To the old school way before rap
I remember Poi E and that break-dance cuzzies pretty cool
And John Rowles on TV with Paki Paki school
I member Hi Marks chur! Billy T chur!
Māori Volcanics chur! Is you feeling me? hard!
Sir Howard Morrison quartet Tui and Missy Teka
I don't wanna talk about it cover sound pretty reka
I'm destined to walk the same journey down the same road
But before I do I want everybody to know
I need you right now all(Prince Tui Teka)
All my whanau all my friends I'ma need you all til the very end
I acknowledge all the greats of Aotearoa music
Cos without them I simply wouldn't be doing this
I also know they wouldn't be up there without your support TAUTOKO
For I must have you for the life of me(Prince Tui Teka)