Born For Prawns
by Mizhowlinmad (HBF), 2010
Disclaimer: This is done purely for fokkin' enjoyment. "Born to Run" original lyrics by Bruce Springsteen, 1975. He may be The Boss (or der Baas)…but he's no match for the Swietie Man. Enjoy!
Wikus (translated from the Poleepkwan):
In the day I sweat it out in the slums of a runaway South African dream
At night I scrounge for some empty catfood tins and I surely wanna scream
Strung out baby, out in District 9
Mutated, transmogrified and havin' a helluva time
Baby, this place takes the skin right off my back
It's a run down, shanty kinda town
Gotta wonder where the fok I've gone
'Cause okes like me, baby I was born for prawns
Tania, let me in, come be my wife again
I want to feed your hopes, drive you insenn-a
Just wrap your arms 'round my exo-shell
And put your hands on my antenna
Together we could make it work
Gotta run from your dad ,('cause you know he's a jerk…)
Will you come with me and risk it all
'Cause bokkie, I'm just a scared half-breed animal
But you gotta walk a mile in my skin
I want to know what prawn love is like; is that a fokkin' sin?
Beyond the barbed wire the MNU choppers scream down out of the sky
My people open some more catfood cans
And I know they just wanna get high
It's cold at night, and I hate the sight
Prawns are walkin' round in a fokkin' daze
I just wanna walk with you, Tania, get outta this place
See you with my alien's gaze
The streets are crammed with rundown shacks and the filth of twenty years
Every prawn's out waitin' tonight, but there's only pain and tears
Together, Tania, I live with this madness
I'll love you with all the sadness in my soul
Someday, bokkie, I don't know when, we're gonna be together
Like it's supposed to be, and it'll be a brand-new dawn
But then, okes like me, baby, I was born for prawns
Okes like me, baby I was born for prawns!
Fini
