Children of Romania by Maisey Rika

How far our painful past can travel and how the universe did answer back with a very powerful beautiful song by a Maori artist.

Maori singer/songwriter Maisey Rika, has one of Aotearoa’s (New Zealand’s) most impressive lead vocal style, fused with her honest and thought invoking messages. Some have described her sound similar to Tracey Chapman or Sade, with a splash of India Arie.

Children of Romania

Sun down
Sit up in my room now
The walls are closing in, closing in
Borderline the sanity I keep up in my head
Innocence is stolen
Doomed from the beginning
The walls are paper thin, paper thin, babe
The screams, they lock me in, they lock me in
And I join in

I think its time they realise
I said, I said I think it’s time they see it through my eyes
I’ve paid for mistakes I never made
Children of Romania
I’ve paid for mistakes I never made
The children of Romania

Sun down
Kept up in my room now
The walls are closing in, closing in
Borderline the sanity I keep up in my head
Innocence is stolen
Doomed from the beginning
The walls are paper thin, paper thin, babe
The screams, they lock me in, they lock me in
And I join in