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