Joel Spiral & Punahele - Blue Tarp Chronicles Lyrics

To all my people with the blue tarp ceilings
Putting Kanaka on ʻĀina is my riches
Shout out to Hale Hoʻomalu
Tarp down tie the tarp down
Got a cowboy coffee with Kona grounds
Outhouse with the bucket cedar chips all around
Rusty generator humming in the background
Tweaker left his clutter and moved back to town
Rooster in my face saying step up step up keep up the pace
Step up step up keep up the pace
Us Kanaka Maoli fight, to have a better life
They want us to end up priced out of paradise
Who benefits from Indigenous erasure
They displace my people to build military bases
You want evidence just look at Makua
To see genocide, trauma, pain, and pollution
How are we homeless in our own homeland
Through settler colonial systemic plans
Sellouts maneuvered like pawns when they play us
This is my home I don't want to move to Vegas
This ain't hi maka maka, this is blue tarp raps
Leave the continent behind, it is time to come back// ʻAuamo kuleana, Keep the iwi safe
For thousands of years all we had was this place
We can fix the pilikia with our own two hands
Only righteousness perpetuates the life of the land
Tarp down tie the tarp down
Got a cowboy coffee with Kona grounds
Outhouse with the bucket cedar chips all around
Rusty generator humming in the background
Tweaker left his clutter and moved back to town
Rooster in my face saying step up step up keep up the pace
Step up step up keep up the pace
Before the storm pounds we tie the tarps down
Creating a space where we can live safe and sound
Bound for a future where we won't drown
From the separation and inflation that surrounds
Proper preparation prevents poor performance
Provide for our family the utmost importance
Though it seems enormous. We keep on moving forward
To the golden threads of hope yet to be forged
Drippity drop tippity tap hear my tarp flap
Assembling like the similes that are placed in my rap
Just trying to land with my feet on the land
Trust in the plan makes me a better man
Protecting precious cargo drafting healthy patterns
Lighting gloomy caverns with the peaceful calming lanterns
Convictions now bestowed to help us pave the road
Toward our final destination at our humble abode
Tarp down tie the tarp down
Got a cowboy coffee with Kona grounds
Outhouse with the bucket cedar chips all around
Rusty generator humming in the background
Tweaker left his clutter and moved back to town
Rooster in my face saying step up step up keep up the pace
Step up step up keep up the pace
Tarp down tie the tarp down
Got a cowboy coffee with Kona grounds
Outhouse with the bucket cedar chips all around
Rusty generator humming in the background
Tweaker left his clutter and moved back to town
Rooster in my face saying step up step up keep up the pace
Step up step up keep up the pace