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[Intro: Aluna Francis, David Dallas]
We are the nightburn that keeps you runnin'
Makes you wanna be in the fight, better hold on tight
We are the blaze that keeps you raisin'
Higher, higher, higher (Yeah)

[Verse 1: David Dallas]
If you come from where we come from, know we don't ever run from
Gettin' money in a lump sum just to pay it back later
If the family need a favour then it ain't nothin major
Paper changes hands quicker than a DJ hits the fader
That's just how we do, how we grew, hard to understand it
As a sour youth, mum explainin' that you ain't allowed to choose
Your family's your family, they're gonna look out for you
Still a Samoan boy, don't forget about your roots
Growin' up in A.K. where they don't forget their rugby boots
Didn't play much five-eighth, I would play way more Kurupt and Snoop
Play way more Mobb Deep and Wu, say, hey, all my people who
Been goin' against the grain but don't forget 'bout why we really do
What we do, where we came from, got our names from
People I lay next to in the ground when my day comes
Chance to make my music, a gift for me that they brung
Think I ain't proud then you mistaken, uce

[Chorus: David Dallas]
That's just how we do, how we're raised, island roots, Auckland ways
People overseas wonder if I'll ever change
But I came from the future, today is tomorrow
That's why whatever we do then the world gonna follow
The world gonna follow, the world gonna follow
Celebrate it with my fam, feel like we just hit the lotto
The world gonna follow, the world gonna follow
Man, I came from NZ, my today's their tomorrow (Yeah)

[Verse 2: David Dallas]
I got them laid back island genes, I don't need no drama
In my ear, lava-lava, listenin' to "Dear Mama"
With my peers, sippin' lagers, reminiscin' on the years
May the tears that we shed for the departed disappear
So, for real, Rod, see you when I get there, I still got
Some things that I need to tackle, 'bout to get my headgear
Like I'm Thurston or Kronfeld, man, I'm certain, if things round here
Were perfect, feel I'd be half the person, I was birthed in
Middlemore for a reason, on any day in Auckland
Could see all four seasons, so we're born believin'
The sky ain't the limit, it's just somethin' to react to
Things are lookin' cloudy now but the sun will crack through
Umbrella packed too, you can read it like I'm tattooed
Proud of where I'm from, it pulls me back like a lasso
Laugh how we used to pay for Sky before the rent
This that hamo that palagi pito saute aukilagi shit

[Chorus (Extended): David Dallas]
That's just how we do, how we're raised, island roots, Auckland ways
People overseas wonder if I'll ever change
But I came from the future, today is tomorrow
That's why whatever we do then the world gonna follow
The world gonna follow, the world gonna follow
Celebrate it with my fam, feel like we just hit the lotto
The world gonna follow, the world gonna follow
Man, I came from NZ, my today's their tomorrow
That's just how we do, how we're raised, island roots, Auckland ways
People overseas wonder if I'll ever change
But I came from the future, today is tomorrow
That's why whatever we do then the world gonna follow
The world gonna follow, the world gonna follow
Celebrate it with my fam, feel like we just hit the lotto
The world gonna follow, the world gonna follow
Man, I came from NZ, my today's their tomorrow