Lyrics Nu‘uanu - sans

Nu‘uanu

I love where I’m from
I love it so much
My valley scenic
You ain’t seen it
Nu’uanu and Hialoa
Those be my streets, kid
23 years in Apartment 25
I stole the street signs after a tropical storm
They blew down and I wanted em encouraged by mom
She told me wait a day, grab em after sunset
So nobody would see, does that make her my accomplice?
Probably not, but I stole the signs and I’m proud of it
The eight one seven, Noa in the back of the valley
We’d write songs on his porch and post em
They missd me at the Okazuya while I was at Harvard
Kalihi on port, Manoa on starboard
Sam’s Dlicatessen fed me more than my moms did
I worked at Huckleberry Farms before it closed
And they rebuilt the shopping plaza with the Banyan tree that was in Hungry Lion
Still enclosed
Remember VHS copped from the video shop
Rent em for a weekend, two dollars a pop
Jurassic Park, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Pokemon Blue version, I chose Squirtle
Royal School fool, super super citizen
Kawananakoa Middle, the botball champion
Shoutout Mr. Hasuko, for telling me that I wouldn’t get my life together 'til I
turn thirty
I’m not there yet, still a few years
But I’m back now with some new peers
Teaching downtown, back where I was grown
This is a love song to the valley I call home