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Apartment Song
04:26
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Hang the tiny potted plants off the hook that you built into the wall shelf
There may not be a lot of room, but it’s enough for both of you to put
All your things down
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Quirk
04:12
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My laugh’s made like yours
Hearty at its core
I will inherit more
From you and what you leave with me
Not all that I keep
Will work out for me
As you sow your seed
I’ll reap from everything that stays
How the world looks upside down
As your feet shift beneath the ground
You feel your skin start to thicken
With the air as it sinks
(It knows the water
Your mother crossed over
To give life to you)
This is your inheritance
This is the room your father lived
Passed down from child to child to next
From their first to last breath
Your father knew this
Your mother did too
The fault’s not on them
It’s never on
The blame it runs deep
In the cracks of your skin
You don’t want to fight
But you know it will win
My laugh’s made like yours
Callused at its core
I will inherit your
Idiosyncrasies that stay
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3. |
Yellow Fever
03:27
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Spitting out blood
From biting my tongue
You’re calling my name
Even though you can’t pronounce it
You want those eyes, pale skin, black hair you called it
Yellow fever
I grit my teeth and freeze no words come out
If you could, would you take back all the things you said
If you could, would you take back all the things you said
If I could, I would say all I left unsaid
Please let me be unseen
Why can I not correct you
Don’t wanna say it’s true
Why do I feel the need to protect you
You see me in the ways you want me to be
I see you, broke and sick, with a fucked up wet dream
If you could, would you take back all the things you said
If you could, would you take back all the things you said
If you could, would you take back all the things you said
If you could, would you take back all the things you said
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Try Lingual
03:18
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I smile like I can understand
But my mind reminds me I can’t
My ears drop words like slippery hands
Trying to hold on
I listen hard to what you say
And in my head I will translate
I might respond the wrong way
Forgive me, I’m still learning
I panic ‘cause I missed a phrase
Like you can see right through me
I listen hard to what you say
Each word begins to sound the same
The sounds, the words, the goddamn shame
Forgive me, I'm complaining
I wonder where you put the blame
Cause I always put it on me
I smile like I can understand
But my mind reminds me I can’t
They taught me it’s not of this land
Forgive me I’m unlearning the practice
Of self-blaming habits
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5. |
I Live Here Now
04:07
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It seems so quiet that you can’t
Tell the difference
Between the screaming, silence in the
Way it’s so quiet
As the quiet increases
You think of the reason
To make it through the feeling that you
And everyone felt, it’s a feeling you’ll never get used to
It seems so quiet that you can’t
Tell the difference
Between the screaming, silence In the
Way it’s so quiet that you can
Let go of the things you can’t understand
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6. |
Last Kneeplay
01:07
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7. |
I'm From Here
05:06
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I was born with a cord around my head
I was born with a mother almost dead
I was born with a tied twisted tongue
I was born with a father’s heart undone
I was raised by the shoes left at the door
I was raised like my mother was before
I was raised by the fear of my own skin
I was raised with it.
I was born with it.
I will live with it.
I’ll still live with
I come from a whole of different parts
I’m from weary souls and broken hearts
I come from a brown and ancient skin
So let me in
If you ask me where I’m from
I’ll say the rage, the lights the sea
I’ll say the pain passed down on me
And when you say it’s not enough
I will pretend it won’t get to me
Won’t let it get to me
I’m from here, I swear
I’m really from here
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8. |
In the Spaces
05:05
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Move out west, fly up north
By the coast, get a job
Clock it in, clock it out
Be a wife, stick it out
Keep it up, have some kids
Cook some rice, cheap enough
Made enough, just enough
Raise them up, raise them right
Learn the tongue, just enough
Teach the kids, let them switch
Let them live, live again
Keep it up, just for them
Don’t think, just work
Don’t think, just work
Don’t think, just work
Don’t think, just work
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9. |
The House
03:29
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Mom and Dad
They like each other I think
They don’t hold hands or kiss,
But those are things they don’t need
When you raise two kids in a house
You do it for them ‘til they grow and get out
All you have left are the rooms that you two don’t
You don’t share
Mom and Dad
I think they’re fighting again
The rumbling downstairs is hard to tell if it’s them
When you live on the second floor
You don’t think about the reason for
All their arguing, it seems just a waste of time
And breath, and breath
Mom and Dad
They told me separately
They come from different parts
So what does that make me?
Half trainwreck or half burning sea?
Half Boriken or half Chinese?
If I’m the sum of my parts
How can I be whole if their eyes won’t ever meet
If I’m the sum of my parts
And it won’t equal love, what does that make me?
If I’m the sum of my parts
And it’s game is zero, who lost and who gained?
Which one will remain?
Mom and Dad
They both moved out of this house
I understand now
But I still miss the house
And the tree and the small bench
And the grass stains and the fence
It may be haunted
But I still miss the roof, the walls, and the old floor
They don’t live there anymore
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