Tahiti

(album: The Collection - 1998)

Will you please grant me
The honour of receiving
These tokens of my love
Though we stand worlds apart

My dreams were battered and torn
But they brave the stormy seas
Tahiti, the goal of my life
Receive me home
(Tahiti, the goal of your life, receive you home)

Tahiti tia a mama
Tahiti te arey a mama
Tahiti tia a mama
Tahiti te arey a mama
Tahiti tia a mama
Ta ho oh wa

Pu ti iapa eri ta ne
I love you
Ma ru arey arey a mama
Love me too
Te arey hiti ma hana
The flowers, the sky, the sun
Ma ria Tahiti
U ana Britani oh wa
Ma ria maniti
U ana Britani oh wa

We are worlds apart
But together
Now, in one dream
We cannot talk
But we feel love
Our hearts run wild and free
Together now in Tahiti
After sailing the stormy sea

Tahiti, the goal of my life
Please, love me
Mamiti the love of my life
Please, love me

The beauty of this emerald isle
Set in a sapphire sea
The flowers, the sky, the mountains high
Bow to your beauty

When I left England's shore
Bound for Tahiti
I believed in dreams
I believe that man should be free
But how those dreams were battered and torn
Like the storms that hit The Bounty's beams

Tahiti, the goal of my life
You've given me back my dreams

Pu ti iapa eri ta ne
I love you
Ma ru arey arey a mama
Love me too
Te arey hiti ma hana
The flowers, the sky, the sun
Ma ria Tahiti
U ana Britani oh wa
Together now and forever
Tahiti a lo wa

Tahiti tia a mama
Tahiti te arey
A lo ra a ho ra oh ra
Tahiti te arey
Tahiti tia a mama
Tahiti, oh ra wa
Tahiti tia a mama
Ta epa a roa oh wa (Tahiti te arey)
Tahiti tia a mama (Tahiti, oh ra wa)
Tahiti tia a mama (Tahiti te arey)
Ta epa a roa oh wa (Tahiti te arey)
Tahiti tia a mama (Tahiti tia a mama)
Tahiti ti ara oh waa...