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Coqui Lullaby
03:18
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Oo ooo oo oooahh ahhhh hoh
Before you fall asleep before you fall into a dream
And believe what they say
Do you think you can wait
Stay awake with me
They wanna separate us
Criminalize and debate us
We won’t allow it we won’t allow it
Our fists are too high in the clouds
See
And when we pump we summon the rain
The power of water soothing our pain
They can keep testing there’s nothing gain
Seeds that we are we have trained our brains
Mind over matter freeing our chains
Hatred they bring don’t mean a thang
We still spring up when the seasons change
Seasons change oh
Oo ooo oo ooahh ahhhh oh
I know we really thought we'd get free like this
If you've lived a life of deficit it's easy to dismiss
Your own well being / forget you're breathing
Lost in the grind forget you are alive
And have so much to live for
Starting from your core
I hope that you remember
This message from ancestors
We are still breathing
We are still breathing
In everything you do
They’re deep inside of you
You can call on them
If someone attempts
To dim your light
But when day turns into night
It's time for you to rest
Soon we manifest
Our purpose
I need you to be well
Your life is worth it
I need you to be well
On the way
On the way on the way
Preferably the whole way
Cause you’re my ride or die
But I'd rather you live
Your whole and fullest life
Oo ooo oo ooahh ahhhh oh
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2. |
Ain't That Serious
03:19
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Ooo ooo
We try so hard when we could just try easy
I’m busy tryna please you you’re busy tryna please me
This was not our goal from the beginning
All of a sudden our world was spinning
Round habits and actions that truly don’t serve us
Those that bring us down are doing us a service
Give us a stage to share our light
I learned how to beam so bright at night
Sometimes when I’m bein tested and all I wanna do is fight
I count all my blessings everything’ll be alright
It ain’t that serious
Serious after all
It ain’t that serious
Serious after all
It ain’t that serious
Serious after all
It ain’t that serious
Serious after all
Why I gotta stress when we end up in the same place
Evil meets us daily though it wears a different face
I’ve met people all love that still hold on to hate
Starting from the languages they choose not to translate
I’m tri-so-hard lingual, but I still fail often
We are all relearning
How to soften
It ain’t that serious though
You know it’s gotta be funnn
Sometimes when I’m bein tested and all I wanna do is fight
I count all my blessings everything’ll be alright
It ain’t that serious
Serious after all
It ain’t that serious
Serious after all
It ain’t that serious
Serious after all
It ain’t that serious
Serious after all
It ain’t that serious
It just ain’t
It just ain’t (serious after all)
It ain’t that serious
It ain’t that serious no
It ain’t that serious no
Ooo ooo
Serious
Serious after all
It ain’t that serious
Oh oh oh
Serious after all
Serious
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3. |
We Flow (Remix)
03:55
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In a Soultree kinda way
What I’m really tryna say
Is that I love you
I miss you
And I want us to be cool
They say tomorrow’s a new day
And I’m hoping you’ll stay
One night
(and day and night again)
Sooner or later we’ll realize
We flow, we flow, we flow
We flow, like water
We flow, we flow, like water
In a Soultree kinda way
I’m asking if you’ll lay
A foundation
With me based on justice, trust, and creation
Of the good, for the good, of all kinds (of beings)
We lived for this purpose in past lives I'm feeling
Beyond the vessels, we’ve found ourselves in
Our partnership is so much deeper than skin
I am here x4 cuz
We flow, we flow, we flow
We flow, like water
We flow, we flow, like water
Let me ride that wave they call
Ms. Silver Surfer Oceans, babe
I heard that boy been Global Warming your brain
I’ll save the day
Knowing a little bit bout losses lost my homeland
Took my projects and replaced with condo buildings
Plan to keep my family close and you can join us, bae
We flow like rivers on Michigan on a windy day
Flow like Fresco on features with Steph
Keep pressing play and maybe you can catch the wave
Or catch a ray the sun is shining smiling
Girl don’t feel afraid eh eh ey eh ey ey
We flow, we flow, we flow
We flow, like water
We flow, we flow, like water
This is why (V1+2)
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Oh how nice it is to see you again
Linking up at NiteCap
Picking up right where we left off
We got arrested for fighting deportations
We’re all tired of exploitation
Creating our own way
We swing, strum, and sway ourselves back together again
Yes, our friendship was meant
Oh how this music mends
No time lost
No love lost
We’ve fought for life at all of our costs
We’re ending this war so much to live for
Love is our purpose - what is yours
What is yours
What is yours
What is yours
This life starts and it ends all over again
And I love to spend my days with hearts like yours
So big and bursting with so much love to share
How beautiful and blessed we care
And I know even when you’re not there
Your love is right here
It migrates to me without any visa
So grateful to meet ya my friend
No time lost
No love lost
We’ve fought for life at all of our costs
We’re ending this war so much to live for
Love is our purpose - what is yours? mm
What is yours
What is yours
What is what is yours
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5. |
Not1More
03:00
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We come together to undo these unjust laws
No longer blaming each other
The system we know is the cause
Too long divided we suffer in silence
Now is the time to break out
We’re not voiceless we’re unheard
Come and take all of these words
We’ve been chanting our truth so loud
Not 1 More
Not 1 More
We won't let them take not 1 more
Not 1 More
Not 1 More
Not 1 More
Not 1 More
They ain't gonna take not 1 more
Not 1 More
Not 1 More of us
Of us one more of us of us
Not 1 more of us not 1 more
3 million deported by Barack’s administration
My family fears my work but I heal with my creations
Inspired by the ways we learn to resist
The most militarized countries that don’t want us to exist
We are joining forces in all areas of life
There is something we can all offer to the light
So think about it long and think about it hard
Know that our resistance is coming from the heart
Not 1 More
Not 1 More
We won't let them take not 1 more
Not 1 More
Not 1 More
Not 1 More
Not 1 More
They ain't gonna take not 1 more
Not 1 More
Not 1 More of us
Ooo ooo ooo ooo
Oo oo ooo
Oo oo ooo
Ooo ooo ooo ooo
Oo oo ooo
Ooo ooo ooo ooo oo oo
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6. |
Soul Womxn
04:30
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Hmm na na na na
Ohh woh hooo ooo
One more time one more time for the mind for the mind
One more time one more time free ya mind free ya mind
The soul of the womxn
Is nothing to be tamed
Cause the soul of a womxn ah
Can never ever be contained
Yes, yes that’s how we survive
Don’t need heroes to be saved nah
No no no no no no no
We pass on our spirit
Even beyond the dead
We just keep on living
Living inside your head
We ain’t going nowhere
In fact we’ve been here
You just arrived
If I am making myself clear
I came cause I always always come first
It took a little while to recognize my self-worth
Doesn’t matter if I’m lonely meditating in my bed
You existed so much better so much better in my / head
That’s the longest home I’ve had in 24 years
Chicago may be clout-y, but my truth / is Crystle clear
You see, I thought my inner spirit was my inner demons
We’re vibrating higher cause we’re closer the sun
Against each other no wars, I mean the touch
In a world that’s full of hatred, I still love oh so much
Can’t deny it, I am tired but I’m in it til the end
That’s the only way to promise that someday we will mend
Yea, we will mend, oh yea, in the end
Uh uh uh uh
If you’re thirsting for some realness they call me the hydrant
Cause I’m flowin without papers and I’m always on the run
You / never know who will be tappin’ on your telephone
Been spending most of my life running away from my home
I have a greater calling and I can’t afford to lose
Don’t have time to be beaten by men that’s when I had to choose
My/self above this broken and beaten family tree
That passed on their abuses onto the past me
Sometimes I forget her name I think it’s Stephanie
Anxious, depressed, trapped in her own body trying to be free
So I rooted myself and I searched deep within my soul
Found the babaylan within me, now I’m fighting to be whole
In my methodology, music, movement, and intentions
I don’t believe in dying only the highest of ascensions
And again we will rise, we will rise to the skies
Because
The soultree of this womxn nah
Is nothing to be tamed
Cause the soultree of a womxn ahh
Can never ever be contained
Yes, yes that’s how we survive
Don’t need heroes to be saved
No no no no no no no no no
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Soultree
Multi-disciplinary, multi-genre Pilipinx Marshallese Undocumented Queer vocalist, songWriter, poet, and Creator based in Chicago and LA
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