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VUOI VUOI ME

Lyrics/sánit: Rauni Magga Lukkari
Music/nuohtta: Mari Boine, Georg Buljo

Vuoi my little yellowbird
Vuoi my summernight bird
cuckoo and eagle
Vuoi my swallow
who nests inside the riverbanks
Vuoi night owl
with limitless vision
Vuoi vuoi me

Vuoi vuoi joy
with hearty laughter
Vuoi sorrow
with seas of salty tears
Vuoi vuoi frost
winter and cold
Vuoi summer with hot, burning days
Vuoi vuoi me

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THE SHADOW

Lyrics/sánit: Mari Boine/ Sámi proverb
Music/nuohtta: Mari Boine/ Georg Buljo

The gákti of the envious
never gets longer
The plate of the envious never fills up

Shoulda beens
Coulda dones
Woulda dones
Carrying the guilt
Carrying
Always gotta do
favours favours
forever favours

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WHERE DID ALL OUR COLOURS GO?

Lyrics/sánit: Mari Boine
Music/nuohtta: Svein Schultz

Our festive garments
Where on earth
did all our colours go?
Do we actually
have anything
to dress up with?
Tainted whites
a shining stranger’s gifts

Breathe me back to life
Unchain and free me

Festive garments
yours and mine
Where are they?
Suitor’s presents still awaiting
at the bottom of the chest
So
off they went
wanting to find out

Breathe me back to life
Breathe me back to life

You knew I stood there
right by the edge of the cliff
You saw
I’d been to the shadowlands
My face was sinking
sinking to the deep
All saturated
about to drown in guilt

Breathe me back to life
Free me back to my life

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MY FRIEND OF ANGEL TRIBE

Lyrics/sánit: Rauni Magga Lukkari
Music/nuohtta: Mari Boine/ Georg Buljo

I have not reached far
am only halfway
Now
I am ready to leave
begin
my own journey

My friend
in league with angels
dances so easily
between people
holding my hand
and warming me

Now I am born
to new pain
In the doorway to a new life
I wait for change
Same child
with the same easy nature

Come
into the embrace of my thoughts
come in my embrace
I lay out blankets of clouds
Sing your songs
gently

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ON THE FELLS OF THE NORTH

Lyrics/sánit: Karen Anne Buljo
Music/nuohtta: Mari Boine

The longhaired shaman daughter
herds her white and dappled reindeer
On the northern fells as in an old picture
the shaman daughter sleeps, entranced

The longhaired shaman daughter
herds her white and dappled reindeer
On the northern fells as in an old picture
With echoes sounding off the cliffs,
she joiks

On the northern fells in cool waterfalls
she bathes
pleading for tears from the rain
Bathing herself with tears from the rain
Cradles the child, chilled by the night

On the fells of the north
in cool waterfalls
she bathes
With the echoes sounding off the cliffs,
she joiks
bathes her intuition in the rushing water

…the shaman daughter sleeps entranced
…bathes herself…
…cradles the child chilled by the night…

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REINDEER OF DIAMOND

Lyrics/sánit: Karen Anne Buljo
Music/nuohtta: Mari Boine/ Svein Schultz

Big roaring beasts
skeletons of steel
have found their way
to our land

They are scraping and digging
searching for our reindeer of diamond

Big ravening beasts
colossal toxic claws
are here
Run
to your sacred place
reindeer of diamond
Run
don’t let them find you

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IRRESISTIBLE

Lyrics/sánit: Rauni Magga Lukkari
Music/nuohtta: Georg Buljo

Entices
beams light
heats the blood
fox love
approaches
pierces
fades out
and shrivels

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THE MERMAID

Lyrics/sánit: Karen Anne Buljo
Music/nuohtta: Mari Boine/ Malika Makouf Rasmussen

The proud mermaid shows the way
to whomever she wishes
The fair maiden of the sea shows the depths
wherever she appears

Let the north wind birth the waves

The lovely mermaid explains dreams
to whomever she wishes
The fair maiden of the sea purges the depths
wherever she falls

Let the thunderstorm fling the shattering
stones
Let the whirlwind make a crag of the waves

The thunderstorm will not reach the seabed stones

The whirlwind will not raise the proud maiden
from the bottom of the sea

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ULDDA GIRL

Lyrics/sánit: Karen Anne Buljo
Music/nuohtta: Svein Schultz

This night I want to be your uldda girl
will be unchanging beauty
This night I want to be your only pleasure
It’s me to be your uldda girl

This night I will bloom in all my colours
Coming for you tonight in your dreams
This night I am your uldda girl
I will be your harbor in the night

If you don’t show a drop of your
human red blood
or wear your shining
amulet protection
Then you will be here with me
forever
If you don’t show me your silver
button

This night I want to be your uldda girl
I will be unchanging beauty
This night I want to be your only pleasure
It’s me to be your uldda girl

If you don’t show a drop of your
human red blood
or wear your shining
amulet protection
Then you will be here with me
forever
If you don’t show me your silver
Button

Uldda nieida is the daughter of the earth people living underground. She is a real beauty and the dream of most men living on the earth.With her luring charm, she makes a man her captive, unless he drives her away with magic tools, such as silver or a drop of his human blood.

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BIG MEDICINE

Lyrics/sánit: Ross Reaver
Music/nuohtta: Ross Reaver, Mari Boine

Thinking ’bout where we come from
Thinking ’bout how far we’ve gone
Thinking ’bout how far we’ve come
There’s a big medicine

There’s a wild melody
There’s a million harmonies
There’s a note with everyone
There’s a big medicine

Think we know what we need now
Think we got it figured out
Right inside of everyone
There’s a big medicine