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bridge
03:05
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if i am your bridge, understand,
we must let those bridges burn
(turn around) if i'm here to gratify and comply
and for nothing in return
so if i am your bridge, understand,
we must let those bridges burn
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gabriela's knife
03:42
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i can see clearly
cuts through the haze
of geological time
an obsidian blade
i've felt her power
reborn in me
and in my heart
i carry
gabriela's knife.
take me out of the mountains
take me far from my home
take me out of Ilocos
from the things that I know
you can destroy my body
you can take away my life
but in my heart
i'll carry
gabriela's knife
gabriela's knife
gabriela's knife
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fields
03:35
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no consequence, no fight
no need to face the look inside the eye
the price you pay the hollow sacrifice
that fills the need to look within yourself
and feel the fear that lurks within those cells
in flander's fields,
the poppies grow
between the crosses
row on row
that mark their place
and in the sky
the lark still bravely singing flies
the cold flesh of a drone whistles by
your heart is purple
your face is worn
your uniform
is adorned
a hollow symbol of sacrifice
you waited so long
and was it worth the price?
in flander's fields
the soft flowers falling all over the place
the poppies grow
between the crosses
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balikbayan
03:27
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balikbayan
balikbayan
balikbayan
when u gonna come back home
i'm waiting here across that ocean
mind is on the island
comes and goes
call me long distance on the telephone
wire some money
put me on a plane
don't want to be buried in the USA
wire some money
put me on a plane
or scatter my ashes on that blue ocean
when u gonna come back home
i'm waiting here across that ocean
light-skinned baby on my back is getting grown
i'm sending u a box
and i'll tell u when i know
wire some money
put me on a plane
don't want to be buried in the USA
wire some money
put me on a plane
or scatter my ashes on that blue ocean
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coconut
03:49
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you've been swimming long
against the ocean tide
i've been waiting for u
i've been searching far and wide
i wish i could see u face to face
and i wish i could ask
all these questions i can't say
i know where to find u there's a place
and these spirits follow me all along the way
the closer to the ocean
and the saltier the wave
the sweeter is the coconut
is what my mother says
you can taste the ocean when your
mouth is full of tears
my spirit's been in bamban
kept safe for all these years
fragments of us missing
scattered all across the globe
many of them out there still
many still don't know
there's many people out there
with my blood running through their veins
they all have different parents
and they all have different names
you've been searching for me all your life
you've been making circles
making circles in the sky
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reassemblage
03:57
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hold
me in your arms
reassemble me with love
a fractured body
(deep in the heat where rock is soft)
reassemble me
reassemble me with love
i'm gathering the parts of me
that've broken into
a hundred little pieces
maybe you've seen a few
in the bed or in the drain or stuck onto you
we could take our time and see how we do
you've got me baby
every single piece
collecting up the parts of me that
broke into
a hundred little pieces maybe you've seen a few
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