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  • (echoes)

  • (echoes)

  • (distant drumming)

  • (gasps)

  • (echoing)

  • (shouts)

  • (voices chanting in foreign language)

  • ♪ ♪

  • Tatou o tagata folau

  • Vala'auina e le atua

  • ♪ O le sami tele e o mai

  • Ia ava'e le lu'itau e lelei

  • Tapenapena... ♪

  • ♪ ♪

  • Aue, aue

  • Nuku i mua

  • Te manulele e tataki iei

  • Aue, aue

  • Te fenua te malie

  • Nae ko hakilia

  • Kaiga e ♪

  • We read the wind and the sky

  • When the sun is high

  • We sail the length of the seas

  • On the ocean breeze

  • At night we name every star

  • We know where we are

  • We know who we are, who we are

  • Away, away

  • We set a course to find

  • ♪ A brand-new island everywhere we roam

  • Away, away

  • We keep our island in our mind

  • And when it's time to find home, we know the way... ♪

  • Away, away

  • We are explorers

  • Reading every sign

  • We tell the stories of our elders

  • In a never-ending chain

  • Aue, aue

  • Te fenua te malie

  • Nae ko hakilia

  • We know the way... ♪

  • (gasps)

(echoes)

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