Pearl Jam - Hawai'i '78 lyrics

Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i

(Spoken) i feel free now, you know?
I was just confined like, you know?
My Mom was born on Niihau
My Dad was born here my Dad
He was ahe worked for the Navy down at PWCA
Public Works down Pearl Harbor
Oh my mother was tight ahwas
Tight my Poppa was tight
My Poppa died when he -when I was 10 I think
Was 10 years old but every once in a while
He come back you know i trip! Just
Like couple of weeks ago
I was sleeping my place
And then my mother and auntie Nina came
How would they feel?
Would their smiles be content
Rather then cry? Cry for the gods
Cry for the people
Cry for the land that was taken away
And then yet you'll find Hawai'i

He loved music brah
He had a massive heart attack
The way that -just depression brah
He was real depressed
I was on the same course he was going
And he knew that too and
That's why he came back
And tell me that "eh" -'cuase he DID
Come back and told me that
"Eh, 'cause, you know
No be scared there's people here for
Help you brah" it's kinda like telling me
If he had themhe would still be here i still
Believe if he had called me he'd be alive
'Cause he died of a broken heart brah

How would he feel?
Would his smiles be content rather then cry?
Cry for the gods cry for the people
Cry for the land that was taken away
And then yet you'll find Hawai'i
Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i

Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
Ua mau, ke ea o ka aina, i ka pono, o Hawai'i
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