'Think Smart' NEW Big Local Song launched!

By MADE in HESTON WEST

'THINK SMART' was written, produced and directed by our young people (9-18yrs) involved with our Big Local Music School and Film Club during February 2019 in collaboration with Heston West Big Local, Make A Difference Entertainment and Hounslow Citizens. 

This song is part of our new Anti-Knife Crime Awareness Film Campaign aimed at primary students in partnership with the London Borough of Hounslow, Cranford Community College, Berkeley Academy, Mayor of London and the Metropolitan Police. 

Our Chair Alan Fraser said: "Think Smart was written and performed by young people from Heston West Big Local music workshop supported by two professional musicians Luke Joyce and Rory O'Hare.  They were given a brief to write a song which captures the importance of making right choices to create a song for the Hounslow Citizen scheme which brings over 2000 year 6 Hounslow children to Cranford Community College to learn about making the right choice when growing up.  It has been sent to all Hounslow primary schools to practice and then sing at the end of their Hounslow Citizen Day."

THINK SMART LYRICS

So you going to a new place
You gonna turn a new page
But there obstacles along the way
And you got to make the right choices
Listen to the right voices
Think about what the point is
You’re the one in control

We are growing up
Learning right from wrong
But you gotta think smart
When you’re out there
This is the beginning of something good
A chance to start anew
But you gotta think smart
When you’re out there

Looking over my back
And then ahead of me​
Thinking about who I want to be
I made some mistakes
But that’s a part of my story
And I got to make the right choices
Listen to the right voices
Think about what the point is
I’m the one in control

We are growing up
Learning right from wrong
​But you gotta think smart
When you’re out there
This is the beginning of something good
A chance to start anew
But you gotta think smart
When you’re out there
(Smart when you’re out there)

(Smart when you’re out there)
(When you’re out there x 3)
(Smart when you’re out there)

Heston West Big Local
And Hounslow Citizens
We know they got your back
(They got your back)
Heston West Big Local
And Hounslow Citizens
We know they got your back
 
We are growing up
Learning right from wrong
But you gotta think smart
When you’re out there
This is the beginning of something good
A chance to start anew
But you gotta think smart
When you’re out there

Smart when you’re out there

Big thank you to Luke Joyce and Rory O'Hare for producing the song with our young people (Lovell, Luliya, Daniyal, Amadeus, Huzayma, Sanjay, Brooke and Crystal) and also thanks to Alan Fraser, Taz Virdee, Blaise Singh, Arfhan Razak, Joan Conlon, all our fantastic community volunteers and the Heston West Big Local Board for leading and supporting this project.