Blues - Magnetic North, Taiyo Na, Teng Yang

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