Aroha Mai, Aroha Atu
It's like a rash
A rash in the summer sun
Crawling up your back
Baby, calm down, baby, calm down
What do you see?
Blood on your hands that you can't wash clean
In so deep that you couldn't even see it
It's like a slap
A slap burning on your cheek
Now you see the cracks
Baby, wake up, baby, wake up
What do you see?
All the missing parts of the person you were meant to be
It's never too late to return mana wahine
I'm going to share our love
Manaakitanga, speak the truth
Kōrero te reo, feel the shame
And then move beyond it
It's not my shame, I don't have to hold it
Reinvigorate my thinking and speaking
For my whaea and kuia who never got to see it
Live whanaungatanga everywhere I visit
Whānau takatāpui always in my spirit
I may have come late, but better late than never
There was healing to be done so I could hold my mana
I'm nobody's saviour, just here for the mahi
I hope this waiata frees anybody
Who didn't grow up close to Māoritanga
It runs in your blood through your whakapapa
Aroha mai, aroha atu
The circle of love will always hold you
A rash in the summer sun
Crawling up your back
Baby, calm down, baby, calm down
What do you see?
Blood on your hands that you can't wash clean
In so deep that you couldn't even see it
It's like a slap
A slap burning on your cheek
Now you see the cracks
Baby, wake up, baby, wake up
What do you see?
All the missing parts of the person you were meant to be
It's never too late to return mana wahine
I'm going to share our love
Manaakitanga, speak the truth
Kōrero te reo, feel the shame
And then move beyond it
It's not my shame, I don't have to hold it
Reinvigorate my thinking and speaking
For my whaea and kuia who never got to see it
Live whanaungatanga everywhere I visit
Whānau takatāpui always in my spirit
I may have come late, but better late than never
There was healing to be done so I could hold my mana
I'm nobody's saviour, just here for the mahi
I hope this waiata frees anybody
Who didn't grow up close to Māoritanga
It runs in your blood through your whakapapa
Aroha mai, aroha atu
The circle of love will always hold you
Credits
Writer(s): Jennifer Cloher
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.