Paradise? [Song]

PARADISE?
By 3CANAL

Heya Heya Heya-Heya-Heya
Heya Heya Heya-Heya-Heya
Heya Heya Heya-Heya-Heya

Hear mih Amerindian spirits calling [Heya Heya Heya-Heya-Heya]
Hear them Amerindian spirits calling [Heya Heya Heya-Heya-Heya]
Hear mih Amerindian spirits calling [Heya Heya Heya-Heya-Heya]
Hear mih Amerindian spirits calling [Heya Heya Heya-Heya-Heya]

A surf rise up deep in the ocean [Heya-Heya-Heya]
Loaded with Amerindian potion [Heya-Heya-Heya]
Come to bring the healing tide
And resurrect them ancient tribes
But something blocking the vibes. Yes!
Something just blocking the vibes. Why?
'Cause buildings filling the skies
A people dying for another to rise
Black gold and crimson tides
Is this Paradise?

Some say that we lost [Paradise]
Some say that we live in [Paradise]
Some say, well if this is [Paradise]
Good God, where the hell is [Paradise?]
Some say that we lost [Paradise]
Some say that we live in [Paradise]
Some say, well if this ain't [Paradise]
Good God, where the Hell is [Paradise?]

Paradise, oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go!

Some say we lost, blown off course, help we find we bearings today
Some say we lost in a fog, lost at sea, we can't see we way
Lost, way off course, help we find we way back today
Lost, hopeless cause, help we, father, help we today.

Some say that we lost [Paradise]
Some say that we live in [Paradise]
Some say, well if this is [Paradise]
Good God, where the hell is [Paradise?]
Some say that we lost [Paradise]
Some say that we live in [Paradise]
Some say, well if this ain't [Paradise]
Good God, where the Hell is [Paradise?]

Paradise, oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, leh we go, leh we go!

Some say we lost,
Some say we lost in a fog
Some say we lost, way off course, help we find we way back today
some say we lost
Lost, hopeless cause, help we, father, help we today.
Some say that we lost.

Long time they call it town
Town now turn upside down. Oh-oh
Paradise it seems so faint
Them Amerindians done turn in dey grave
Long time they call it town. Ah-ah
Town now seem upside down. Wo-oh
Paradise it seems so faint
Them Amerindians done turn in dey grave.

Some say that we lost [Paradise]
Some say that we live in [Paradise]
Some say, well if this ain't [Paradise]
Good God, where the hell is [Paradise?]
Some say that we lost [Paradise]
Some say that we live in [Paradise]
Some say, well if this ain't [Paradise]
Good God, where the Hell is [Paradise?]

Paradise, oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go, oh-oh, to Paradise
Oh-oh, oh-oh, leh we go!

Ga coo ma kak coo ma kak eee ke aa kee zoe mama
aa kee o kee aa gaa coo ma ka co ma kak coo ma tae zoe
Ga coo ma kak coo ma kak eee ke aa kee zoe mama
aa kee o kee aa gaa coo ma ka co ma kak coo ma tae zoe
Unde Taino [ah taa tun Taino]
Taino [ah taa tun Taino]
Unde Taino [ah taa tun Taino]
Taino [ah taa tun Taino]...

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!
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A Note From The Gull

Thank you, 3CANAL! I love the use of the maracas. So few are the times when our First Nations people are remembered and mentioned in our songs. We are not all turning in our graves though. We are still very much alive. Without knowing it, perhaps even you, whether rootstock or scion, will ensure the continuation.

But even on a deeper level, beyond genetics, if you embrace what is life affirming and nurturing in ALL our cultures, you will amplify and return the love that this land shows to us. This is the only way in which we will become truly native. We will also be Amerindian and fully OF this place. We will be all First Nation people.

It is what I was thinking about when we did reworkings of the National Anthem.

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REWORKING #2
Submitted by Guanaguanare



What do we know of liberty?
Paralysed by hope and fear
Like slaves to alien destinies
We want to fly from here.

Shipwrecked, still we stand
Staring at these Amerindian seas
This won't be OUR land
Until we learn to see
In every creed and race, the aboriginal face
Of the spirit of this nation
Here, by this Trindian place will we be embraced
When we ALL bless this nation.

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare