Lorde
Te ao mārama lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2021
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:11
E ngau mai ana te hōtoke
Waiho mai ahau kia noho (Haere, hoatu koutou)
Nau mai te waru whakahihiko
Me puta rā?
Ehara
Hanahana ana taku kiri
Noho ana i te rēhia
Kei taku taha taku kaingākau
E te tī, te tā, tahuti mai rā
Ki te ina i ngā hīhī o te rā
Taku rite, ko Hinemoana
Ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
E pura i te pō ki te ao mārama (rama, rama, rama, rama)
Titiro ki mua, hoaka tāua
Wai uri, wai pounamu
Kani ana ngā mōrehu
Whiua aku māharahara ki waho rā
Hinengaro wātea (hm)
Hanahana ana taku kiri
Noho ana i te rēhia
Kei taku taha taku kaingākau (kaingākau)
E te tī, te tā, tahuti mai rā
Ki te ina i ngā hīhī o te rā
Taku rite, ko Hinemoana
Ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
E pura i te pō ki te ao mārama (rama, rama, rama, rama)
Piri mai Hine-raumati
Taukamo kia puta rā koe ki te ao mārama, rama, mārama
Mārama, rama, mārama
Mārama, rama, mārama
Mārama, rama, mārama
Mārama, rama, mārama
Mārama, rama, mārama
Key vocabulary
- e
- letter E
- hine-raumati
- summer girl (Māori)
- ana
- cave; pitB1
- mai
- from here; brought here
- hōtoke
- winter
- waiho
- leave
- ahau
- I (me)
- kia
- may; let; to (purpose)
- noho
- to live; to stay
- haere
- go
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About this song
Lorde is a New Zealand singer-songwriter known for electro-pop and pop with a sharp adolescent perspective. She is best known for the 2013 debut Pure Heroine, especially the breakout single “Royals,” and for later albums Melodrama and Solar Power.