[Intro - spoken, seething with anger] You know what? I'm done. Done with the system, done with the grind, done with every single person who told me what my life was supposed to look like. Watch this. [Verse 1 - furious, rapid-fire, explosive] I'm sick of the alarm, I'm sick of the commute I'm sick of the tie and the polished-up suit Sick of the meetings that could've been emails Sick of the system that's rigged and it never fails To keep you right there, right where they want you Chained to the desk while the years just haunt you Mortgage and rates and the power bill rising While the suits at the top keep on capitalising I looked at my life and I wanted to scream Forty years of this? That ain't a life, that's a dream A nightmare dressed up in a picket fence And I'm done paying for it, I'm done, past tense So I signed the papers, I let the house go Told the bank to take their interest rate and blow Packed the caravan, loaded up the rig Four of us and Shadow, we don't need your grid! [Chorus - loud, defiant, anthemic] We burned it down, we walked away from all of it Every chain, every cage, every bit You said we needed more, we said we needed less Took the whole broken system and we said get wrecked We're off the grid, we're off your map, we're gone Living on our terms from now on! [Verse 2 - building rage, sharp and precise] You want to talk about pressure? Let me paint you a picture Nine to five to nine again, the grind gets sicker Every year you give them more, they just want another Watching your kids grow up on a screen, not with their father And I'm supposed to smile and say yeah, this is fine While the best years of my life are spent on someone else's time? No. I refuse. I'm not doing it anymore I flipped the table, kicked open the door Sold the TV, sold the couch, sold the whole damn show Took the money, bought a caravan, and let it go Now I'm standing in Fiordland with the mist on my face And no boss alive can take me from this place Shadow's running wild through the tussock and the fern My kids are learning lessons that no classroom could earn How to light a fire, how to read the sky How to look each other in the eye and ask why Why were we so scared? Why did we wait so long? Because the system had us thinking that this life was wrong [Chorus] We burned it down, we walked away from all of it Every chain, every cage, every bit You said we needed more, we said we needed less Took the whole broken system and we said get wrecked We're off the grid, we're off your map, we're gone Living on our terms from now on! [Bridge - raw, almost spoken, seething] And don't come at me with your "be responsible" Your "think about the future" and your "that's not possible" I've seen what responsible looks like at sixty-five Worked their whole life away and barely felt alive That's not happening to me, not to my family Not while I've got breath and a tank of petrol and the land is free So take your opinion and your unsolicited advice And understand we only get to do this life once, not twice [Verse 3 - fastest, most intense, relentless] We're tearing through the South Island at the break of day Frost on the windscreen, kids are on the way To somewhere we've never been, somewhere we've never seen Living in the spaces in between No algorithm, no feed, no notification ping No subscription, no renewal, no anything Just the sound of the river and the wind through the trees And four people breathing like they finally can breathe And yeah the roof leaks and yeah the heater's slow And yeah some nights we don't know where we're gonna go But I'd rather be lost out here in the wild Than found in a cubicle, dead inside, in denial This is for every parent who ever sat at a desk And thought there has to be more than this, I need the rest This is for every family running on empty and fear We made the jump — the other side is right here Shadow's howling at the moon on a Southland night And for the first time in years, everything feels right [Final Chorus - screaming, maximum energy] We burned it down, we walked away from all of it Every chain, every cage, every bit You said we needed more, we said we needed less Took the whole broken system and we said get wrecked We're off the grid, we're off your map, we're gone Living on our terms from now on! [Outro - spoken, cold and final] We're not coming back. Not to the mortgage. Not to the grind. Not to any of it. Four of us. Shadow. Every corner of New Zealand. The off-grid Kiwi way. And if you don't like it — that's your problem.
