Turn of the Centuries

"The Hawaiians are the native people of Hawai'i nei.
They are the children of Papa and Wākea.
They are the Indigenous sources.
They are the roots of the taro." - Haunani Kay-Trask

(Queen Maile)
Wind me waist
'Uehe, 'ami, and slide
Up and down we go
We kū'ē side-by-side

Skank away your blues
Till the morning light
Rise a new day
E kū'ē for your rights

(Illnomadic)
Honolulu Rifles missionary white militia vision
Clouded with ambition, greed, and dreams of annexation listen
Treacherous design, the bayonets made him sign
The misnamed Hawaiian League plotted schemes and aligned
With foreign-born conspirators, criminal subjects
Well-versed in conquest destabilize the object
The context elitism, whiteness, supremacy
Deception with words. Committee of Safety?
Lied to the world they don't act in accordance
Laws that are broken, they acted in forces
On the palace grounds where they landed a fleet
Overthrew the Queen with the US Navy
But Grover said no it belongs to the people
Wanted restoration but the forces of evil
Held the occupation till their own man got
Put in into office now to finalize the plot
McKinley's doctrine illegal invasion
The senate didn't ratify the treaty he was chasing
Still he went and took it when couldn't get the votes
The Kū'ē Petition held deep in the vaults!

"Congress shall not pass or enforce any law or resolution
Outside of the existing borders of the United States."

(Drifton Limrik)
From week in to the weekend we see them let the weak in
When it leaks out and they depress it the lesions are deepened
We descend off the deep end too deep in well it depends
Who does the pen's allegiance give credence (shh)
Preventative reason or repress the reception
Try to resend as of recent the pretext since pre-text
To the present, press reset, control, alter, delete it
Created a scenic achievement that pleases
As long as the readers believe it succeeded
We built tables that we'll never have a seat at
Paid the price for our limited time
But it's always a little too high and a bit outta reach
So continue the climb
See the tracks on the landscape tax on the back pay
Mass cracks for vanishing acts on the pathway
As they pass the transaction on that slate
Epitaph second class rates on a mass grave

(Mr. Kapu)
As the foreign tide is rising enterprising on the prize
Overtake our home
Holding the line when the wa'a capsizing
Realign foundation stones
Struggle and we strive through the day and night
As we navigate our lives thru the great unknown
Kānaka still alive and forever we survive
For the future seeds are sown
Never giving up never giving in spear or the pen
That's the element that we living in
Renaissance is a benefit like a medicine
Resistance to a mind like a vitamin
We goin' keep that native intelligence
Slap that pahu till oppressor is irrelevant
Kū'ē is the center of the sentiment
Hawai'i nei, kānaka hold precedence

Foreign tides rise over take our home
Rinse away the right to our foundation stone
Struggle and a strife through the great unknown
Forever we survive from the root we grow

(Queen Maile)
Wind me waist
'Uehe, 'ami, and slide
Up and down we go
We kū'ē side-by-side

Skank away your blues
Till the morning light
Rise a new day
E kū'ē for your rights

"Well, as far as I'm concerned,
I'm a patriot of the Hawaiian Kingdom." - Haunani-Kay Trask

Wind me waist
'Uehe, 'ami, and slide
Up and down we go
We kū'ē side-by-side

Skank away your blues
Till the morning light
Rise a new day
E kū'ē for your rights

(Punahele)
When they look at Hawai'i, paradise is what they see
Not the water pollution, by the military
This ain't the land of the brave, or the home of the free
'Til this day, my people fight for political sovereignty
I want the smoke with anybody, that desecrates land
You can still get slapped by these lovely hula hands
Decolonization, no more cultural degradation
No more military bases, we want 'āina restoration
We want LAND BACK and de-occupation
For my people I will stand with no hesitation
Don't want dependency, sustainability's the goal
Tourism economies is Babylon control
My language still spoken, 'ohana's still growing
They try, but our spirit will never be broken
Aloha means Joey Carter types gotta go
My advice to tourists; visit, spend, go home

(Paniolo Prince)
This aloha 'āina action is for real
Our kingdom occupied cause they couldn't steal
Patriots on Kaho'olawe say no deals
Hōkūle'a proved our kupuna had mad skills
Brada Iz over da rainbow reaching the masses
Pūnana Leo 'ōlelo Hawai'i classes
Charter schools at the capitol chanting 'em down
How Sudden Rush made us all super proud to be brown

(Inalihi)
1954 The Democratic Revolution
Settler backdoor deals model minority collusion
1959, setting the stage
To be a territory or the 50th state
All in all, the process invalid
Because the option for independence was left off the ballot
Often debated as the less of two evils
Between a rock and a hard place is an occupied people
From a territory laced with haole plantations
To a poisoned state, military and tourist destination
No pineapples but still Dol(e)ing out poverty wages
Cuz under 50 stars nothing fundamentally changes
We are not American, is what we've been saying
Nor Republican vs Democrat but de-occupation
Our time is coming, and we have been patient
In the death of the state lies the rebirth of our nation

(Mr. Kapu)
Foreign tides rise, overtake our home
Rinse away the right to our foundation stone
Struggle and a strife through the great unknown
Forever we survive from the root we grow
Foreign tides rise, overtake our home
Rinse away the right to our foundation stone
Struggle and a strife through the great unknown
Forever we survive from the root we grow

(Queen Maile)
Wind me waist
'Uehe, 'ami, and slide
Up and down we go
We kū'ē side-by-side

Skank away your blues
Till the morning light
Rise a new day
E kū'ē for your rights

Wind me waist
'Uehe, 'ami, and slide
Up and down we go
We kū'ē side-by-side

"We are here for our future!
We're gonna reclaim it one ku'i at a time,
One hā at a time—slowly but surely." - 'Īmaikalani Winchester

Skank away your blues
Till the morning light
Rise a new day
E kū'ē for your rights

"So my call out to you, 'ōpio, take up the call to aloha 'āina.
Not just take care of the land, of course,
But to take care of the nation,
To take care da truth, to take care of our kuleana,
To take care of ourselves." - 'Īmaikalani Winchester