this is my toki pona cover of 10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories! https://emperorx.bandcamp.com/album/10000-year-earworm-to-discourage-settlement-near-nuclear-waste-repositories 10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories is a song about raycats, hypothetical cats that change color when exposed to radiation. the idea behind it is that if we replace cats with raycats, and people 10,000 years from now have traditions and folk songs about how cats changing colors is bad luck, they'll know not to settle near nuclear waste repositories. toki pona is a minimalist conlang created by Sonja Lang! it has a vocabulary of under 200 words, and you can learn it completely in a few weeks. i'm not 100% happy with the translation, but it's good enough and i don't want to re-record it. also, i fumbled a bit in some parts. but this is a "folk" song, so perfection wouldn't be expected. also, the audio is bad because i recorded it with a laptop microphone with the instrumental version playing in the background. this also happens to function as a voice reveal! ⚪️ lyrics: soweli o ante ala e kule sina. o awen kule. soweli o ante ala e kule sina. o ike ala. soweli o ante ala e kule sina. sina ante la sina suno kin e oko sina la mi ale li tawa. soweli o ante ala e kule sina. o awen jelo. soweli o ante ala e kule sina. mi olin e sina. soweli o ante ala e kule sina. tan ni: sina pona. sina ante e lukin sina la mi ale li tawa. soweli o ante ala e kule sina. mi sona ala. soweli o ante ala e kule sina. ni li ike a. o ante ala e kule sina. sina pali la tomo tawa sina li pona tawa sina mi ale li tawa. soweli o ante ala e kule sina. o awen pimeja. wawa nasa tan ante kule li ken moli e mute. wawa nasa pi sona ala li ike tawa mi. ni li moli e kasi li ike e selo li ike e soweli. o ante ala! soweli o ante ala. o ante ala! soweli o ante ala. o ante ala! soweli o ante ala.
