Oshen adalah seorang Amerika yang besar di propinsi Morobe, Papua New Guinea. Meri Lewa adalah sebuah lagu reaggae berbahasa PNG (Pacific) yang sangat terkenal di kota kelahiran saya, Merauke, Papua.

Meri Lewa Lyrics by Oshen

* Meri lewa mi save misim yu turu
Na mi wari wari tumas lo yu
Longpela taim mi no kisim wanpela leta
bai mi mekim wanem nau,
sapos Yu lusim mi bai mi indai olgeta.

Meri lewa yu kam na yu senisim laif blo mi.
Mi save salim tinging taim mi raun wantaim ol mangia.
Long wanem“na mi bisi lo yu olsem
Mi save laik lo bungim yu lo wara butaweng.
Maski lo wanem nap“we mi save stap
Kainkain gut-pela memori bilong yu bai kamap, yes.
Mi olsem kanu, na yu, yu olsem saman
Mi no ting sapos mi tanim not, bai yu inap giaman.

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Meri, mi save tinging tumas lo’yu
mi tok olsen mi bai kambeck na dispela tok i turu.
Mi rasta mang-i bilong PNG na mi stap
i no long taaim bai mi kam na lukim you long hap.
Ooooh, nogut yu tinglus long mi, meri ye
Ooooh, nogut yu tinglus long mi, meri ye.

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Rap:
Thinkin about you girl because I’m so far“away from you
wantin you to know that this love for you is“always true.
Not a day goes by“that i don’t see you in my eye
but I try to carry on, my God so lonely I could die.
And my heart, feelin the sparks that u been giving me
why we in 2 different places, girl u know it’s insanity.
The man in me is what i gotta find to carry on
the song is what I’m sending to u girl, it’s been so long.

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* NOTE: I need an English or Indonesian translation for this song, please”.