Queen Maile feat. Bn5stax, Illnomadic, Inalihi, Kahale Naehu-Ramos, Mr. Kapu, Ohtoro, Paniolo Prince & Punahele -
Hoʻokupu - A Hip Hop Anthology of Hawaiian History
Together
(Queen Maile)
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
(Introduction)
(Mr. Kapu)
Said it's a different time, different wave
Different climb, different place
But I got that same state of mind on my face
As we move to a new line, new rhyme, new age
Still got dat same damn look on my face
That's the sight of revolution
A sign of the solution
Me and my people ride for righteousness, we moving
Sliding, riding
Shot in gliding
Tryna get dem damn blinds
Right up off your eyelids
(Paniolo Prince)
When I see you my spirit heightens
Light brightens, kuleana it starts to lighten
For people and place, I feel like fightin'
An aloha 'āina titan at the bit bitin'
Mo'olelo(s) we reciting keiki's fire we ignitin'
Throwing sparks like we making lightnin'
Smitin' down Babylon system delightin'
Feeling our kūpuna had, seeing the islands on the horizon
(Punahele)
No matter where I go, I represent where I'm from
No switching up, I just stick to my guns
And reach out to the hui when there's work to be done
I stay pili to the 'āina, because that's my day one
I'm there like the sun brings light, and the moon in the night
Protecting nature is the way that I live my best life
The trees we plant today makes sure that our kids survive
I wish that every single river gets to kiss the shoreline
(Illnomadic)
I traveled in from distant suns, a refuge my life begun
At the edge of violence no honor in the rule of gun
They stole my people's movement so we had to leave, got deceived
Set sail on the open sea I never would believe
I would be here today
Give praise to spirits and the gods of this land
To kānaka and the culture, I'm your guest and I'm grateful
I'll stand with you to the end and put my life up on the table
(Inalihi)
Want us to let them use our language but never let us use our land
And they put up sea walls to erase our birthing sands
So you'll be met with force if you don't meet our demands
Because not everything's according to the settler's plan
A propensity for genocide is manifest destiny
In America's checkerboard of war we're nothing but the centerpiece
So this system of governance is what we will flip
And the U.S. is nothing more than a sinking ship
Never trust the government that overthrew your own
America will sell everything, right down to your soul
Hā'ina 'ia mai, the stories been told
So I'm telling you things you already know
Because they apologized in '93 and nothing happened
Except for more troops, more tourists, and a bunch of land grabs
To fight their wars our own people they deploy
Because the kōlea comes to only steal, kill, and destroy
So it's power to the people and not to the commodities
'Āina as an ancestor, never as property
Sovereignty is more than a state, but bodily autonomy
E ola mau nā 'ōiwi o Hawai'i
(Everyone)
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
(Introduction)
(Mr. Kapu)
Said it's a different time, different wave
Different climb, different place
But I got that same state of mind on my face
As we move to a new line, new rhyme, new age
Still got dat same damn look on my face
That's the sight of revolution
A sign of the solution
Me and my people ride for righteousness, we moving
Sliding, riding
Shot in gliding
Tryna get dem damn blinds
Right up off your eyelids
(Paniolo Prince)
When I see you my spirit heightens
Light brightens, kuleana it starts to lighten
For people and place, I feel like fightin'
An aloha 'āina titan at the bit bitin'
Mo'olelo(s) we reciting keiki's fire we ignitin'
Throwing sparks like we making lightnin'
Smitin' down Babylon system delightin'
Feeling our kūpuna had, seeing the islands on the horizon
(Punahele)
No matter where I go, I represent where I'm from
No switching up, I just stick to my guns
And reach out to the hui when there's work to be done
I stay pili to the 'āina, because that's my day one
I'm there like the sun brings light, and the moon in the night
Protecting nature is the way that I live my best life
The trees we plant today makes sure that our kids survive
I wish that every single river gets to kiss the shoreline
(Illnomadic)
I traveled in from distant suns, a refuge my life begun
At the edge of violence no honor in the rule of gun
They stole my people's movement so we had to leave, got deceived
Set sail on the open sea I never would believe
I would be here today
Give praise to spirits and the gods of this land
To kānaka and the culture, I'm your guest and I'm grateful
I'll stand with you to the end and put my life up on the table
(Inalihi)
Want us to let them use our language but never let us use our land
And they put up sea walls to erase our birthing sands
So you'll be met with force if you don't meet our demands
Because not everything's according to the settler's plan
A propensity for genocide is manifest destiny
In America's checkerboard of war we're nothing but the centerpiece
So this system of governance is what we will flip
And the U.S. is nothing more than a sinking ship
Never trust the government that overthrew your own
America will sell everything, right down to your soul
Hā'ina 'ia mai, the stories been told
So I'm telling you things you already know
Because they apologized in '93 and nothing happened
Except for more troops, more tourists, and a bunch of land grabs
To fight their wars our own people they deploy
Because the kōlea comes to only steal, kill, and destroy
So it's power to the people and not to the commodities
'Āina as an ancestor, never as property
Sovereignty is more than a state, but bodily autonomy
E ola mau nā 'ōiwi o Hawai'i
(Everyone)
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Making our way through the stormy weather
The only way we going home is all together
Credits
Writer(s): Guy Naehu, Navid Najafi, Paul Kutzen, Ciera Lasconia, Brandon Pajimola, Tanya Naehu, Scott Ohtoro
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