Blues

Chorus: Teng Yang
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
Verse 1: Derek Kan
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
Chorus: Teng Yang
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
Verse 2: Theresa Vu
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
Bridge: Teng Yang
I see you
I feel you
What happened to us
Backs turned we grew apart
I hear you
I feel you
We shattered in bullets
We chanced it and blew it all
Verse 3: Taiyo Na
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 that’ll 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 for what’s really good
Bridge: Teng Yang
I see you
I feel you
What happened to us
Backs turned we grew apart
I hear you
I feel you
We shattered in bullets
We chanced it and blew it all
Chorus: Teng Yang
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