You call yourself human
Well, you have no idea
What it is to walk in my shoes
What it cost me just to be here
How I paid with my dignity
How I sacrificed
How I had the chance to fuck shit up
I promised myself I would always be nice

But you pushed me away
And you fed me a line
That you would give me a refuge
But it was District 9
I have a slum for a city
And I have nothing of my own
I had no choice but to stay put
I wish I could go home

CHORUS
All I seek is refuge
All I seek is sanctuary
You don’t have to fear me
You don’t have to be wary
You don’t need to hurt me
You don’t need the military
All I seek is refuge
All I seek is sanctuary

You shoot us if we’re bad
You shoot us if we’re good
You’d wipe us from existence
If you actually could
You’d rather see us dead
Than part of your nation
It’s hatred, xenophobia, and social segregation
Stick us in a ghetto
Just to keep us poor
And then you all complain
About us not doing more
More for the country
More for the economy
You have made us scavengers
Cut the arm to spite the body

Treat me like an animal
I’ll act like one
Staring down the barrel of your MNU gun
Act like it’s our fault we can’t fucking integrate
View us as filth
Like we had a choice to emigrate
You think we’re stupid
We just prawns
We just pawns
We just living beings trying to all get along
All you wanna do is make us disappear
If the world were a better place
We wouldn’t even be here

CHORUS

BRIDGE
(x2)
Don’t you know we want the same things?
We just want to live and breathe free
Wanna live a life without oppression
Without feeling like you hate me
Don’t you want the same things? (x6)
Wanna live a life without oppression
Without feeling like you hate me

CHORUS