Lost Visions-te Awanui Lyrics

Lost Visions-te Awanui lyrics

*Verse 1*

Here's an insight to a time

You gotta step back to before the spring box tours

Where social circumstance, conditioned minds

Had to adapt to survive, our people in the frontlines

Now Maori response a resistance

A form to challenge to system

Nga tamatoa had heads on the line

Maori language they potitioned



*Hook*

Suffered they did, ignorant of implications

Ostrasized, against what they knew was wrong

For what they knew was right

The blood shed flowing tears

Bearing scars from the years

Can even explain the entirety of what they did



Connections pierced of the past into the land

Wounded links between those gone 

And who now stands



We do remember(Bastion Point)

We do remember(Parihaka)

We do remember(Waitangi)

We do remember



So comprehend, yes comprehend the 10 seconds before

Because the line is never straight

No, no, no it ain't ever straight 

And it ain't ever what you saw



Wouldn't you call them soldiers

Wouldn't you bow your head

Wouldn't you raise your hands

Instead of closing your ears



Wouldn't you seek their knowledge yes

Wouldn't you wake the dead yes

Wouldn't you applaud the cause yes

Instead of fearing what is yes