Topenga Ataata
Kupu Tūpato
Don’t you let me down
– Kaua e tukua ahau e koe ki raro
If you let me drown
– Ki te tukua ahau e koe kia horomia
I’ll die in your arms again
– Ka mate ano ahau i roto i o ringaringa
I’ll die in your arms
– Ka mate ahau i roto i o ringaringa
I won’t make a sound
– E kore ahau e hanga i te tangi
Blood on the ground
– Te toto i runga i te whenua
When they take my crown
– Ka riro i a rātou taku karauna
If they take my crown
– Ki te tangohia e ratou taku karauna
Oh
– Aue
Oh
– Aue
Oh
– Aue
Reflections lookin’ back at me
– Ngā whakaaro e titiro ana ki ahau
They’re smilin’, they’re smilin’
– He ataata rātau, he ataata rātau
I’m trapped inside a gilded cage
– Kua mau ahau ki roto i te kātene koura
A golden blade I’m sharpening
– He mata koura kei te whakakoi ahau
It pleases you, I’ll see it through
– E pai ana ki a koe, ka kite ahau i te reira i roto i
I feel your chill across my skin
– Ka fe ahau i tō mātao puta noa i toku kiri
The seasons never change
– Kāore e huri ngā wā
Don’t you let me down
– Kaua e tukua ahau e koe ki raro
If you let me drown
– Ki te tukua ahau e koe kia horomia
I’ll die in your arms again
– Ka mate ano ahau i roto i o ringaringa
I’ll die in your arms
– Ka mate ahau i roto i o ringaringa
I won’t make a sound
– E kore ahau e hanga i te tangi
Blood on the ground
– Te toto i runga i te whenua
When they take my crown
– Ka riro i a rātou taku karauna
If they take my crown
– Ki te tangohia e ratou taku karauna
Oh
– Aue
Oh
– Aue
Oh
– Aue
Oh
– Aue
I know you’re up
– E mohio ana ahau kei runga koe
You think I don’t know you’re staying up all night
– Ki taku whakaaro kaore au i te mohio kei te noho koe i te po katoa
Cooped up in that hotel room?
– I whakauruhia ki roto i taua ruma hotera?
I know you
– E mohio ana ahau ki a koe
You still got that adrenaline from the concert
– Kei a koe tonu taua adrenaline mai i te konohete
Ain’t no way you’re asleep
– Kāore he ara e moe ana koe
My girl told me she saw you in Dallas, said you didn’t look good
– I kii mai taku kotiro ki ahau i kite ia i a koe i Dallas, i kii kaore koe i te pai
That you barely finished the show
– E kore e oti i a koe te whakaaturanga
I just hope you’re not back to the old you
– Te ti’aturi nei au e kore koe e hoki ki te tawhito koe
How much longer you in Texas for?
– Kia pehea te roa Koe I Roto i Texas hoki?
I’m just worried, you worked so hard to be better
– E manukanuka ana ahau, i whakapau kaha koe ki te pai ake
And now you’re back, drowning in that shit
– Na inaianei kua hoki mai koe, e horomia ana i roto i taua mea
Don’t let this industry break you, baby
– Kaua e tukua tenei ahumahi pakaru koe, baby
Don’t let them take you from me
– Kaua e tukua kia tangohia koe e ratou i ahau
Wait
– Tatari
I been up tourin’ state
– I haere au ki te tūruhi
45 off a safe
– 45 atu i te haumaru
At the top is my place
– Kei runga ko taku wahi
You and I, different wave
– Ko koe me au, he ngaru rerekē
Always know when you’re late
– Kei te mohio tonu koe i te wa e roa ana koe
I could never tell you wait
– Kāore au i taea te kī atu ki a koe taria
Made me talk at the lake
– I korero ahau ki te roto
Lavish life type of estate
– Momo oranga nui o te whenua
Losin’ time when you pace
– Ka ngaro te wā ina haere koe
What we can do if you’d waste
– He aha e taea e tatou te mahi ki te hiahia ururua koe
I know the sky’s been in haze
– E mohio ana ahau i te rangi i roto i te haze
You never been through this phase
– Kāore koe i haere i tēnei wāhanga
Been in fire, livin’ fake
– I te ahi, e noho ana i te mea teka
Know you try, but it’s late
– E mohio ana koe e tamata, engari te reira te mutunga
I run the lobby, every summer
– Ka whakahaerehia e au te rori, ia raumati
Buy her body, two-stepper stutter
– Hokona tona tinana, e rua-taahiraa stutter
Platinum ’round my wrist, bird chirp like I’m Stunna
– Ko te Platinum ‘ a tawhio noa toku ringa, manu chirp rite Ahau Stunna
Look around this bitch while the DJ set cut up
– Titiro a tawhio noa tenei wahine i te dj whakaturia tapahia ake
Flashes from the pics in my sections while I’m fucked up
– Ka puta mai ngā pikitia i roto i aku wāhanga i a au e pōhēhē ana
Bad bitch I been waitin’ to get with, hope I don’t nut up
– He wahine kino I tatari ahau kia haere tahi, ko te tūmanako kāore au i te tino pai
Yeah, nut up, man, this shit is trouble
– Ae, e te tangata, he raruraru tēnei mea
I been hittin’ licks, seein’ splits, doin’ double
– I patua e au, i wehewehea, i mahi takirua
No, it’s no events, check my temp, watch it bubble
– Kāore, ehara i te mea he kaupapa, tirohia taku wā, mātakitaki i a ia e pupuhi ana
Don’t you let me down
– Kaua e tukua ahau e koe ki raro
If you let me drown
– Ki te tukua ahau e koe kia horomia
Die in your arms again
– Ka mate anō i roto i ōu ringa
I won’t make a sound
– E kore ahau e hanga i te tangi
Blood on the ground
– Te toto i runga i te whenua
When they take my crown
– Ka riro i a rātou taku karauna
If they take my crown
– Ki te tangohia e ratou taku karauna
What does that shit feel like anyway?
– He aha te āhua o taua mea?
