LONO ft. TRIBETheArtist & Chantal Stormsong Chagnon Lyrics

They say that I can't

I say that I can

Locals only?

Now that ain't my plan

But they say

Locals only

Locals only

We don't want you round here (Hell nah)

We don't want you round here

Locals only

Locals only

We don't want you round here (Hell nah)

We don't want you round here

Locals only

Locals only

We don't want you round here (Hell nah)

We don't want you round here

Locals only

Locals only

We don't want you round here

We don't want you around

Picture a playground

Little kids they just wanna play now

Cos they mamas are working for pay now

What you say now, what you say now, what you (Uh)

First on the playground

Bell rings, big kids they come round

They decide that this land is theirs now

So defenseless, lil kids get pushed out

They take your resources, they breaking seesaws and

They left you the sandpit cos that pit was boring

And then they uncover the rocks that were hidden

All of sudden they have a new interest

They come back to your land

They got a new plan

Wanna play new game and put shovel in your hand

Big deeper and deeper, you wanna be the winner

All the lil kids begin to step over

The plot that is yours, you break out in war

Lil kids they dying, they die by the score

Big kids they seen this, they seen this before

But let it play out cos what matters more

The life of the poor?

Life of the people who were here before?

Or what we could make if we just ignore

What kinda future are we setting up for?

They say that I can't

I say that I can

Locals only?

Now that ain't my plan

They say that I can't

I say that I can

Locals only?

No that ain't my plan

Well, They say that I can't

I say that I will

I think it's bout time

We get us a meal

They holding back trillions

They took from the treaties

Then hold it in trust

But it's our money legally

Then force us to lock-in

Phenomenal rates

And who gets the interest?

The federal-state

Then short us our budgets

On purpose and place

And force us

To borrow our own money mang

And fucked up for us

We can't seem to make change

They say we get freedom

Just give up your claim

Greed is the reason

They take us away

And undercut funding

Grade 10 down to K

With No lawyers

No legal

No steak in the claim

No control of our assets

We're begging for change

Dang

And they say (Laughs)

Change