Woke up in the morning With a song of you on my mind Tried to sing your love away But the memories just stayed And if you care I'll never know and if It hurts I'll never show Sit down with the pain and hope It brings a better day And if the blues come running back I'll sing until they fade away She had 3 names maybe had 4 Hell if I know yo she probably had more Met her as 1 then after a month She told me her name really wasn't what it was So I switched it up called her name by her second But Io and behold name 3 came the next month So many secrets so many lies So many times she told me last time so I Rolled with it and deeper I went Somehow I felt the need to be her hero and shit Maybe 'cause she was lost a timid immigrant Left her mom working a job that I didn't see fit I just wished I coulda seen the real her Beneath the smiles and laughs the real hurt But she never did let me she left me instead Whatever name she has I hope she finds herself in the end Woke up in the morning With a song of you on my mind Tried to sing your love away But the memories just stayed And if you care I'll never know and if It hurts I'll never show Sit down with the pain and hope It brings a better day And if the blues come running back And if the blues come running back I'll sing until they fade away I'm a sentimental fool a detrimental fool Listening to instrumentals full of existential bull Got a penchant to be cruel 'cause I'm sensitive to you But essentially it's used to pre-empt all of these blues Did I mention I'm a fool Co-dependent tenant on a remedy of booze Necessary rules A lifetime of fences is a senseless thing to do Eventually you lose still defenseless to the blues I see you I feel you What happend to us Backs tumed we grew apart I hear you I feel you We shattered in bullets We chanced it and blew it all We blues people coming back we never left Grooving on another track another step There's something in the way Of things baraka said To live a life of legacy madiba rest Poverty's homicidal things go in cycles Love's anti-suicidal it's the reason to what I do See it past the titles the labels they put on ya Shouts to eddie kochiyarna those who live with honor Do we really listen in our activism What we doing to our children When the schools look prisons When the problem's in the system it's the Spirit thatll free it Take the wound and heal it the solution Is to be it Ain't no power like the power of the people Ignited when the streets move a wave over evil We here to put the neighbor back in the hood Pushing back pushing forward to what's really good I see you I feel you What happend to us Backs tumed we grew apart I hear you I feel you We shattered in bullets We chanced it and blew it all Woke up in the morning With a song of you on my mind Tried to sing your love away But the memories just stayed And if you care I'll never know and if It hurts I'll never show Sit down with the pain and hope It brings a better day And if the blues come running back I'll sing until they fade away
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