Topenga Ataata
Kupu Tūpato
Saging my bedroom
– Te whakanoho i taku ruma
Dusting every surface, every corner
– Puehu nga mata, nga kokonga
Pleading and praying it gets warmer
– Inoi me te inoi riro te reira mahana
In this hollow winter tide
– I tēnei wā o te hotoke
Three hours of sunlight
– E toru haora o te rā
Don’t really matter when you’re deprived
– Kaua e tino faufaa, no te e mahue koe
Of happiness, enweakened, advised
– O te oaoa, enweakened, tohutohu
To find some oxygen
– Ki te kitea etahi hāora
Sweeter pastures, wait for me like a lover
– He whanga reka ake, tatari mai ki ahau, ano he hoa aroha
My soul has suffered, get the fuck out of my atmosphere
– Kua mamae toku wairua, tangohia te fuck i roto i toku huru
I’m breathing clean, clean air
– Kei te manawa ahau ma, ma te rangi
Went through an X-ray
– I haere I roto i te X-ray
Doctor said there’s nothing left to see now
– Ka mea a tākuta kāore he mea e toe ana hei kite ināianei
Nothing weird or scary, although somehow
– Kāore he mea whakamiharo, he mea whakamataku rānei, ahakoa he aha
Your heart turned back to gold
– Kua huri tō ngākau ki te koura
Guess I’d been wounded
– Ki taku whakaaro kua whara ahau
Tiny comments ricocheted like bullets
– Ko nga korero iti i rere mai ano he pupuhi
Cyclone on a sunny day, you shook it
– He hau hau i te rā mahana, ka wiri koe
And dragged me down to hell
– Na ka toia ahau ki raro ki te reinga
Now sweeter pastures, wait for me like a lover
– Na, he whanga reka ake, tatari mai ki ahau, ano he hoa aroha
Lord knows I’ve suffered, get the fuck out of my atmosphere
– E mohio ana te ariki kua mamae ahau, tangohia te fuck i roto i toku huru
I’m breathing clean, clean air
– Kei te manawa ahau ma, ma te rangi
Oh-oh-oh
– Ko te Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh, clean air
– Aue-aue, te hau ma
Oh, I’m breathing clean, clean air
– Aue, kei te manawa ahau ma, ma te rangi
