(Intro) (Sound of a wooden waka creaking heavily on the open ocean) (A low, rumbling throat-singing drone begins: 'Ooooooh...') (The sound of a heavy bone hook scraping against wood) (Whispered, intense chant) Mow-ee... (Māui - The Demigod) Teh Ee-kah... (Te Ika - The Fish) Mow-ee... (Verse 1) (Slow, heavy drum beat enters like a heartbeat: THUD... THUD... THUD...) Hidden in the belly of the wooden boat Where the freezing winds of the ocean float The brothers curse the trickster’s name But he holds the bone and he holds the flame Moo-ree-rah-ngah-feh-noo-ah (Murirangawhenua - The Grandmother) gave the jaw To break the deep and rewrite the law He strikes his nose and paints it red The blood of the living to wake the dead. (Chorus) (Drums erupt into a violent, heaving rhythm—like men pulling a massive weight) (Full choir of deep voices roaring in unison) Hee-tah! (Hita - Heave/Pull!) Pull the shadow from the deep! Hee-tah! Wake the monster from the sleep! Teh Ee-kah! (The Fish) The ocean boils, the water breaks! Teh Ee-kah! The pillar of the heaven shakes! (Verse 2) (Music drops back to a pulsing drone and the terrifying sound of a thick rope stretching: Creaaaak...) The line goes taut, the Wah-kah (Waka - Canoe) spins The battle of the gods and the earth begins He chants the Kah-rah-key-ah (Karakia - Incantation) into the storm To force the chaos to take a form The giant scale, the silver fin The crashing of the water and the deafening din It breaches the surface, a mountain of stone Caught on the hook of the grandmother's bone! (Bridge) (Acapella. Fast stomping, chest-slapping, and the sound of axes striking meat and stone) Pah-too! (Patu - Strike/Club) The brothers carve the bleeding meat! Pah-too! Greed and hunger at their feet! The valleys crack! The mountains rise! Beneath the heavy, bleeding skies! Teh Ee-kah-ah-Mow-ee! (Te Ika-a-Māui - The Fish of Māui / North Island) (Chorus) (Maximum volume, huge wall of sound with crashing percussion and roaring voices) Hee-tah! Pull the shadow from the deep! Hee-tah! Wake the monster from the sleep! Teh Ee-kah! The ocean boils, the water breaks! Teh Ee-kah! The pillar of the heaven shakes! (Outro) (The heavy percussion suddenly stops) (Only the low drone and the sound of waves lapping against the newly formed cliffs remain) (Spoken in a deep, exhausted whisper) The line is cut. The earth is still. Ow-tay-ah-row-ah... (Aotearoa) (A single, heavy thud of a foot against the dirt)