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!

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