Lyrics for Sunshowers as interpreted by the_dza1

Sunshowers Lyrics
I Bongo
with my lingo
and beat like a wing yo
to Congo
to Columbo
can't stereotype my thing yo
I salt and pepper my mango
shoot spit
out the window
bingo I got em in the thing yo
now what? I'm doing my thing yo>

quit bendin All my fingo
quit beating me like you're ringo
you wanna go?
you wanna win a war?
like P.L.O. I don't surrendo
the sunshowers that fall on my troubles
are you over my baby
and some showers I'll be aiming at you
'cos i'm watching you my baby

I bongo
with my lingo
and beat like a wing yo
to congo
to columbo
can't stereotype my thing yo

I checked that mouth on him
fucking checked that gas on him
I had him
cornered him
fucking shut that gate on him
why should you listen to him?
he had his way I'm bored of him
I'm tired of him
I don't wanna be as bad as him

its a bomb yo
so run yo
put away your stupid gun yo
'cos we see through like a protocol call
thats why we blow it up 'fore we go

the sunshowers that fall on my troubles
are you over my baby
and some showers I'll be aiming at you
'cos i'm watching you my baby

semi-9 and snipered him
on that wall they posted him
they cornered him>
And Then Just Murdered Him

he told them he didn't know them
he wasn't there they didn't know him
they showed him a picture then
ain't that you with the muslims?

he had colgate on his teeth
and Reebok Classic on his feet
at a factory he does Nike
and then helps the family

beat heart beat
he's made it to the Newsweek
sweetheart seen it
he's doing it for the peeps. peace

the sunshowers that fall on my troubles
are you over my baby
and some showers I'll be aiming at you
'cos i'm watching you my baby

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the_dza1
03-09-2005

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Colombo is the Capital of Sri Lanka, where Maya's parents are from. Her father is/was invovled with the Tamil liberation effort in Sri Lanka. This song is somewhat terroristic, though the Tamils state they are looking for peaceful means to liberation and fair treatment.

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clairebaby
05-17-2005

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love it! her voice is awesome. the lyrics don`t mean much to me, but it`s a good song to run to. hah.

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jacky4290
06-25-2005

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its autobiographical deifnetely...i think it describes what her dad was involved in...she had a rough childhood

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kutelilkat
07-23-2005

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autobiographical i feel. my favorite m.i.a song. amazing sound. so unique .

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apollo50
07-24-2005

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I have a feeling that this may be about her cousin that was a suicide bomber in Sri Lanka. She's mentioned him in alot of interviews and did a documentary on trying to find him where she went back to Sri Lanka only to find that he was already dead.

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DevastatorJr.
08-15-2005

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This song is sort of heartbreaking at the end when he get's caught, 'he's doing it for the peeps...'

It's really great how she's able to combine this very serious stuff with outright party music, the only thing I can compare it to is classic period Public Enemy.

Check out the awesome Piracy Funds Terrorism version of this song, it uses the beat to Salt n Peppa's Push It.

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iloveicecream419
12-30-2005

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I fucking love this song. It makes me want to learn about Sri Lankan politics. I wish I knew more. M.I.A.= the only rap CD I've bought...basically ever.

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The_Variable
01-09-2006

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The P.L.O is the Palestine Liberation Organization........Mtv refuses to play this music video just because of her reference that they will never surrender.

How lame.

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music*ismyboyfriend
01-31-2006

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a boy trying to help his family through the war-ish times i guess, man this song has a great beat,, its so different than anything else, when i first heard it i thought it was awful but its deffinitly grows on you.

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killstar
02-05-2006

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It's not rap, fools!

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dmoedman
02-17-2006

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This song is not an original. It is an old song from back in the day. If you look at the movie " Boyz in the Hood" by John Singleton, which was made in the 1991, you will here the original in the scene where "Ice Cubes"child character is getting grilled by his mom inside the house. I hope I'm not the only one who knew this. However, I don't know who sings the original. Props to M.I.A, I hope she knows the deal. All the people other than me who wrote about this song don't know shit! Dumb FUCKS!

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d_meth51
03-13-2006

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What are you talking about? You don't even know the original artist, and you're calling everyone else dumb fucks? You wrote one of the dumbest comment on the page!

Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band is where the ORIGINAL is from.

The song does borrow from that original song, but they lyrics are M.I.A.'s own.

It's called a sample, you fool.

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JamRockQueen
06-01-2006

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take it easy, damn u ppl are so hostile.
yeah yeah this comment makes no refrence to the song, just wanted to share my frustration with ppl bickering about nothing. :)

peace.

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Bamboo
06-28-2006

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"Sunshowers is about how in the news the world is being divided into good and evil with this axis of evil and terrorism thing, so the song is asking: how can we talk about gun culture and other issues while Blair is preaching that if someone hits us, we should hit back twice as hard?" - M.I.A.

From the wikipedia

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RyGuy86
10-23-2006

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I really wish people would get their facts straight about the Tamil Tigers. Do any of you know anyone in Sri Lanka? "Liberation effort?" Her father pretty much invented suicide bombing, and he's the one who trained the PLO in how to use it as a successful weapon of terrorism.

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morock23
10-24-2006

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This song does bring out some innuendoes about the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka where apparently the minorities are being harrassed and tortured by the sinhalese population. The Government headed by Mahinda Rajapakshe is carrying out an inhuman bombing campaign in poor ethnic minority villages. He is a very unpopular president especially to the Tamils.

Anyways it's an amazing song. Has a very hollow but catchy beat to it. Her songs are simple (the music) but the lyrics are quite complex. That's her view and we have to respect it. So people if you don't like her music don't listen to it. Simple as that...

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rrrachel
05-14-2007

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from sri lanka, get what she means. k so the meaning of the songs basically explained in all the comments above. but salt and pepper on the mango. well, that's the way its sold on the streets of colombo. pretty damn good stuff :)

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I_heart_lyrics
11-15-2007

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I love this song - a lone (beautiful) voice rappingin the wilderness...

Political songs are always cool...this makes me want to dance and weep! I think the meaning is quite difficuklt to extract but:

"he had his way I'm bored of him
I'm tired of him
I don't wanna be as bad as him"

Makes me think of how the Western world views supposed, accused terrorsits - kinda, who acers about the fcat? Im bored of him, dont wanna be as bad as him, etc

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orangeandlemon
04-05-2008

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morock23
"the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka where apparently the minorities are being harrassed and tortured by the sinhalese population."
As a sri lankan AND a sinhalese, i just have to say WTF???
I have a lot more to say to you, but I will try to be rational about it.
I have no idea what kind of country you're from but it seems a bit obvious that you've never even remotely experienced war in any form. If you do, you'd realise that sweeping generalisations like yours are dangerously incorrect. And you don't even need to be involved in war to realise your comments are downright racist. Before you make comments on a public forum and label an entire race with comments that you "APPARENTLY" believe in, think twice because there's a lot more to Sri Lankans and Sinhalese and Tamils than the conflict. And whether you can stretch your narrow mind to comprehend it or not, we do co exist peacefully together and a lot of us, myself included, have best friends who are Tamil.

To everyone else, yes I know this is a forum about songs, I'm sorry, but I just couldn't let that comment go by.

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redearth
07-05-2008

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orangeandlemon, I agree with Morock23 - you cannot call someone's comments racist because they point out the racism by one powerful group which is exterminating a minority. I am Tamil from Sri Lanka and have lived in the war, at the height of the war, in Vanni, the place where the army bombed us, invaded village after village with tanks and airfire and took over entire towns and villages and killed any civilians who hadn't run away - then proceeded to loot the empty houses of everything including the roof and transport their booty down to their homes in the South. Those places are still ghost towns where only the military is allowed to stay. It is ethnic cleansing and any Tamil knows it, even if most Sinhalese are in denial. Remember the government and the military are 99.9% Sinhalese...and the war they are waging is against the Tamil population...you have the Western governments on your side so you can continue to pretend...but MIA is speaking out in her songs for all the Tamils who have been censored.

There are some brave individual Sinhalese I know and admire who stand up against what is happening to the Tamils. There are LTTE fighters I know who have one parent who is Sinhalese and supports their involvement in the freedom struggle. There are LTTE fighters who are married to a Sinhalese. My view is that the only just position for someone who is Sinhalese is to stand up against it, not try and pretend there is peaceful co-existence. There is no peace without justice, and you can turn a blind eye to when your Tamil neighbour is disappeared in the night by the army, or slaughtered in the street while you keep your doors and ears closed.

You say "a lot of us, myself included, have best friends who are Tamil" - but that sounds too much like that well known Nazi leader quote 'some of my best friends are Jews'. It means nothing.

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lika08
01-10-2009

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This is one of my favorite M.I.A. songs. Especially because both sound and lyrics are good.

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laxer4
05-30-2009

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I really like to talk with more of you from Sri Lanka, both on the Tamil side and the Sinhalese side. This conflict intrests me and I would like to learn more!

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MrLo20
02-10-2010

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The second line of the chorus is not "are you over my baby", but in fact "are over you, my baby". For a poetry class assignment I'm analyzing a few of Mathangi's beautiful songs.

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