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balikbayan

by bamban

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1.
bridge 03:05
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
2.
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
3.
fields 03:35
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
4.
balikbayan 03:27
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
5.
coconut 03:49
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
6.
reassemblage 03:57
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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released April 29, 2018

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ancestral spirit and colonized flesh cannibalizing empire from within

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