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Artist: M.I.A.
Canonical path: /mia/matangi
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MATANGI
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MATANGI
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It’s so simple, get to the floor
M-a-m-a mamama
Atanatantan tananan
Angiangingingingi
Matangi, matangi
Somalia, Bosnia
Cuba, Colombia
Ecuador, Mexico
Bhutan, Morocco
Botswana, Ghana
India, Serbia
Libya, Lebanon
Gambia, Nambia
Bali, Mali
Chile, Malawi
Bequai, St. Vincent
Trinidad and Norway
China, Canada
U.S.A., and U.K
Nepal, Nigeria
Ethiopia, North K
Myanmar, Panama
Philippines, Nicaragua
Palestine and Greece
Peru and France
It's so simple, do the dance
Oi oi oi oi oi oi oi
Iano inna iano ina
Pretty raw
Get to the floor
I came up listening to war war
Weekend trips to Singapore
I preach like a priest
I sing like a whore
Do you want more?
Do you want more?
Do you know what I got in store?
Do you want more?
Do you want more?
It’s so simple get to the floor
It’s so simple get to the floor
Do you want more?
Do you want more?
Do you know what I got in store?
Immina immina thana thana
Ingana ingana giiina giiina
I'm ice cream
And you're sorbet
They got guns but it points the wrong way
Yeah I’m on it, they Cirque de Soleil
They make big sounds with nothing to say
You school of fakeness
I’m school of hard knocks
You're here to fool us
I’m here to take shots
Look-alike, copycat
Doppelgänger, fraud
They ain't got nothing on me
Now I’m getting bored
If your gonna be me you need a manifesto
If you ain't got one you better get one presto
Yeah, you got money, we sell bootlegs only
When the shit counts our numbers way plenty
We started at the bottom, but Drake gets all the credit
Paper route or life route yeah we be ready
It's so simple, do the dance
Oi oi oi oi oi oi oi
Iano inna iano inabug spray bug spray bug spray
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