Fonua Fua'anga

Artist: Natalie Merchant
Album: Motherland (2001)
Song: Motherland
Translation: English → Tongan
Submitted by SilentRebel83 on Wed, 13/06/2012 - 02:33
Translations: Italian

English

Motherland

Where in the hell can you go
Far from the things that you know
Far from the sprawl of concrete
That keeps Crawling its way
About 1,000 miles a day
Take one last look behind,
Commit this to memory and mind.
Don't miss this wasteland,
This terrible place
When you leave
Keep your heart off your sleeve

Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,
Lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe, lie with me,
Stay beside me don't go
Don't you go
Oh, my five and dime queen
Tell me what have you seen?
The lust and the avarice,
The bottomless, Cavernous greed,
Is that what you see?

[Chorus]
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,
Lullaby me to sleep.
Keep me safe, lie with me,
Stay beside me don't go

It's your happiness I want most of all
And for that I'd do anything at all,
Oh mercy me!
If you want the best of it
Or the most of all, if there's anything
I can do at all

Now come on shot gun bride
What makes me envy your life?
Faceless, nameless, innocent,
Blameless and free,
What's that like to be?

[Chorus]

Don't go

Tongan

Fonua Fua'anga

Ko fe 'i heli te ke 'alu
Mama'o mei he ngaahi me'a 'oku 'ilo'i koe
Mama'o mei he fakamanga 'o e sima...
'Oku totolo pe 'i hono alu'anga
Mahalo koe maile e 'afe ki he 'aho
To'o ha fakasio e taha ki mui
Tuku 'eni ki he loto manatu mo 'atamai
'Oua teke manako ki he fonua to'afa ko 'eni
Koe feitu'u fakamanavahe 'eni
'I ho 'alu...
Tuku ho loto mei ho'o kofu nima

Fonua fua'anga, fua au, tapuni'i hoku mata
Hiva keu mohe
Malu'i au, tokoto mo au,
Nofo ma'u pe mo au, 'oua teke 'alu
'Oua teke 'alu
'Oiaue, ho'oku fika nima mo seniti tu'i fefine
Tala 'ange kiate au, koe ha me'a na'e sio?
Koe holi kovi mo manumanu,
Koe 'uakai fakaluotaomama'o mo faka'ata'ata
Ko 'ia 'oku sio e koe?

[Tau]
Fonua fua'anga, fua au, tapuni'i hoku mata
Hiva keu mohe
Malu'i au, tokoto mo au
Nofo ma'u pe mo au, 'oua teke 'alu

Ko ho'o monu'ia 'oku 'ou fie ma'u 'aupito fakamanavahe
Ko 'ia teu fai ha fahinga me'a kotoa pe
'Oiaue 'alo'ofa au kita
Kapau 'oku fie ma'u he lelei lahi taha ko 'ia
Pea koe lahi 'o e me'a kotoa pe, kapau 'oku 'i ai ha me'a pe...
Kuou lava ke fai

Ha'u ta'ahine ketelau
Koe ha me'a 'oku 'ou meheka ki ho mo'ui?
Ta'emata, ta'ehingoa, tonuhia,
Ta'ehala'ia mo tauataina
'Oku fefe ke pehe pe hange ko ee?

[Tau]

'Oua teke 'alu