Ia Ora Te Natura
E Mea Arofa Teie Ao Nei
Ia Ora Te Natura

E Mea Arofa Teie Ao Nei

Nature lives (life to nature)

Have pity for the Earth
(Love the Earth)


I know I don't get there often enough
But God knows I surely try
It's a magic kind of medicine

That no doctor could prescribe

I used to rule my world from a pay phone

And ships out on the sea
But now times are rough
And I got too much stuff

Can't explain the likes of me

But there's this one particular harbour

So far but yet so near
Where I see the days as they fade away
And finally disappear


But now I think about the good times
Down in the Caribbean sunshine

In my younger days I was so bad
Laughin' about all the fun we had


I've seen enough to feel the world spin
Mixin' different oceans meetin' cousins
Listen to the drummers and the night sounds

Listen to the singers make the world go 'round

Ia Ora Te Natura

E Mea Arofa Teie Ao Nei
Ia Ora Te Natura
E Mea Arofa Teie Ao Nei


Lakes below the mountains
Fow into the sea

Like oils applied to canvas
They permeate through me


And there's that one particular harbour
Sheltered from the wind
Where the children play on the shore each day

And all are safe within

Most mysterious calling harbour

So far but yet so near
I can see the day when my hair's full gray
And I finally disappear


Ia Ora Te Natura
E Mea Arofa Teie Ao Nei

Ia Ora Te Natura
E Mea Arofa Teie Ao Nei


Ua Pau Te Maitai No Te Fenua
Re Zai Noa Ra Te Ora O Te Mitie


Bounty of the land is exhausted
But there's still abundance on the sea