Blues-Magnetic North/Robert de Boron

[00:02.45]Woke up in the morning [00:04.51]With a song of you on my mind [00:06.87]Tried to sing your love away [00:09.55]But the memories just stayed [00:11.99]And if you care I'll never know and if [00:15.23]It hurts I'll never show [00:17.75]Sit down with the pain and hope [00:20.26]It brings a better day [00:22.11]And if the blues come running back [00:27.74]I'll sing until they fade away [00:33.28]She had 3 names maybe had 4 [00:35.54]Hell if I know yo she probably had more [00:38.20]Met her as 1 then after a month [00:40.64]She told me her name really wasn't what it was [00:43.14]So I switched it up called her name by her second [00:45.93]But Io and behold name 3 came the next month [00:48.79]So many secrets so many lies [00:50.76]So many times she told me last time so I [00:53.67]Rolled with it and deeper I went [00:55.93]Somehow I felt the need to be her hero and shit [00:58.48]Maybe 'cause she was lost a timid immigrant [01:01.03]Left her mom working a job that I didn't see fit [01:03.56]I just wished I coulda seen the real her [01:05.95]Beneath the smiles and laughs the real hurt [01:08.43]But she never did let me she left me instead [01:11.10]Whatever name she has I hope she finds herself in the end [01:14.03]Woke up in the morning [01:15.87]With a song of you on my mind [01:18.46]Tried to sing your love away [01:21.09]But the memories just stayed [01:23.54]And if you care I'll never know and if [01:26.72]It hurts I'll never show [01:29.27]Sit down with the pain and hope [01:31.79]It brings a better day [01:33.63]And if the blues come running back [01:37.32]And if the blues come running back [01:39.47]I'll sing until they fade away [01:44.65]I'm a sentimental fool a detrimental fool [01:47.06]Listening to instrumentals full of existential bull [01:49.48]Got a penchant to be cruel 'cause [01:50.94]I'm sensitive to you [01:52.00]But essentially it's used to pre-empt all of these blues [01:54.75]Did I mention I'm a fool [01:56.11]Co-dependent tenant on a remedy of booze [01:58.75]Necessary rules [01:59.86]A lifetime of fences is a senseless thing to do [02:02.44]Eventually you lose still defenseless to the blues [02:04.90]I see you [02:07.37]I feel you [02:10.09]What happend to us [02:12.59]Backs tumed we grew apart [02:15.27]I hear you [02:17.69]I feel you [02:20.20]We shattered in bullets [02:22.74]We chanced it and blew it all [02:30.62]We blues people coming back we never left [02:32.93]Grooving on another track another step [02:35.50]There's something in the way [02:36.71]Of things baraka said [02:38.22]To live a life of legacy madiba rest [02:40.66]Poverty's homicidal things go in cycles [02:43.06]Love's anti-suicidal it's the reason to what I do [02:45.92]See it past the titles the labels they put on ya [02:48.33]Shouts to eddie kochiyarna those who live with honor [02:50.98]Do we really listen in our activism [02:53.18]What we doing to our children [02:54.64]When the schools look prisons [02:55.90]When the problem's in the system it's the [02:57.48]Spirit thatll free it [02:58.56]Take the wound and heal it the solution [03:00.32]Is to be it [03:01.15]Ain't no power like the power of the people [03:03.10]Ignited when the streets move a wave over evil [03:06.36]We here to put the neighbor back in the hood [03:08.78]Pushing back pushing forward to what's really good [03:11.29]I see you [03:13.76]I feel you [03:16.47]What happend to us [03:19.00]Backs tumed we grew apart [03:22.20]I hear you [03:23.98]I feel you [03:26.37]We shattered in bullets [03:28.92]We chanced it and blew it all [03:32.01]Woke up in the morning [03:34.35]With a song of you on my mind [03:36.46]Tried to sing your love away [03:38.98]But the memories just stayed [03:41.50]And if you care I'll never know and if [03:44.44]It hurts I'll never show [03:46.99]Sit down with the pain and hope [03:49.82]It brings a better day [03:51.64]And if the blues come running back [03:57.18]I'll sing until they fade away