mi ken ala moli e pipi | Futile Attempt of Killing Mosquito

toki! tenpo pi nanpa wan la mi pali e kalama musi pi toki pona e sitelen tawa!
sina wile sona e ijo sin pi kalama musi la, o lukin e lipu ni: https://sadale.net/55/

Hey guys! This is my first toki pona song and my first animation! It's also my first lyrical kinetic typography animation.
Check out this blogpost. It contains additional info about this song as well as resources for remixing and voice-swapping of this song. The source file of the music is also available: https://sadale.net/55/

License: CC BY 4.0. Please attribute to "sadale.net" or the URL to the official blogpost above. If you don't want to do the attribution, please contact me and tell me what you're going to do with this piece of work. It's highly likely that I'll grant you attribution exemption.

Made with LMMS, Inkscape, Synfig, Kdenlive, Audacity, Aegisub and Palette MCT.

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tenpo seli la pipi mute li tawa tomo mi a!
ona li pimeja li lili li jaki
mi kepeken e telo moli tawa pipi mute ni a!
tenpo lili la ona mute li moli.
taso pipi wan li lon wawa li moli ala!

nimi mute lawa:
ona li tawa kon sinpin mi a!
mi pakala e ni.
tenpo lili la ona li tawa monsi mi!
mi lukin e pipi lon monsi mi li pakala e ni.
ona li tawa anpa li tawa sewi li tawa poka ali mi.


pipi li kama tawa tomo mi tan lupa tomo mi a!
mi pini e lupa tomo mi tan pipi.
lupa pini la pipi li ken ala kama e tomo mi.
tenpo pimeja ni la mi ken lape a!
taso tenpo pi lupa open la pipi li kama!

(o toki kalama e nimi mute lawa sin!)

taso pipi wan li lon wawa li moli ala!
(o toki kalama e nimi mute lawa sin!)
mi ken ala lape a! mi pilin ike mute mute a! pakala!
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During summer, mosquitoes are entering my home
They're black, little and gross
I sprayed mosquito repellent against them
Most of them died in no time
But one of them survived strong!

Refrain:
It took a flight to my front. And I tried slapping it
Shortly after that it escaped to my back!
I looked at the mosquito behind me and slapped it
It got to the bottom, got to the top and got to everywhere around me

Mosquito enters my home from window
I'm closing the windows so that they can't enter my home
With the windows closed, mosquitoes can't enter my home anymore
I guess I can sleep well tonight
It turns out that mosquito came before I closed the windows!
(repeats refrain)

But one of them survived strong!
(repeats refrain)
I can't get asleep at all! I'm infuriated! Damn it!

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This lyrics of this song are in Toki Pona. Toki Pona is a minimalist, constructed langauge with 123 words invented by jan Sonja. It doesn't take much work to learn this langauge. It can be learned in days and it won't take long to get fluent on it. Learn more by checking out http://tokipona.org/