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We Need Each Other
04:03
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Every morning
In the garden
I pray sweetly
For our protection
Every morning
In the garden
I pray sweetly
For our protection
Peace defenders
Tender artists
Punks + lovers
The broken hearted
We need each other
We need each other
We need each other
We need each other
Help me, cousin
Hear me, kasama
Speak the feeling
Shift the trauma
Rage is power
And hope’s a drug
But grief is love
Grief is love
We need each other
We need each other
We need each other
We need each other
We need each other, we need each other
We need each other, we need each other
We need each other, we need each other
We need each other, we need each other
We make mistakes
We keep on moving
We celebrate
We keep on moving
Hold the vision
Trust the longing
There’s no map for where we’re going
We need each other
We need each other
We need each other
We need each other
Every morning
In the garden
I pray sweetly
For our protection
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2. |
Without You
04:59
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I’m touching down wheels hit the ground
How do I know what’s real?
I’m home but you’re not here
You taught me to stand with your broken hands
And always demanded
Everything I could give
You raised me to whisper to flowers
Showed us how to fight for what’s ours
The night is longer, the morning colder without you
It burns inside, but I’ll let that guide me without you
Oo, without you
Oo, without you
Climb into bed, sleep to forget
Your empty room
We said goodbye too soon
That hunger for sky, relentless desire
The grit and the fire
I got it all from you
You raised me to whisper to flowers
Showed us how to fight for what’s ours
The night is longer, the morning colder without you
It burns inside, but I’ll let that guide me without you
The last time I saw you, you could not remember me
So I waited, holding your hand
Until my name was safe in your mouth again
The night is longer, the morning colder without you
It burns inside, but I’ll let that guide me without you
Oo, without you
Oo, without you
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3. |
Gold
03:53
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We paint our faces bright
To outshine the sun
We cruise in chariots
Underneath the palms
This is our place
These are our streets
Our secret corners
Try to make us small
Like we don’t belong
But we won’t fracture
We are gold
Like sun on the water
The first day of summer
Leaving home
We are gold
Got no scars to cover
Can’t fade the color
When we know
We are gold
They’re trying not to stare
But we own the light
See them whispering
But we won’t be quiet
Try to hold us down
Make it hard to breathe
We keep on rising
We’re not going home
We’re where we belong
Look at that horizon
We are gold
Like sun on the water
The first day of summer
Leaving home
We are gold
Got no scars to cover
Can’t fade the color
when we know
We are gold
Gold
Sun on the water
Can’t fade the color
Gold
The first day of summer
Can’t fade the color
Gold
Sun on the water
Can’t fade the color
Gold
The first day of summer
Can’t fade the color
We know we are
We know we are
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Nikbo Oakland, California
Nikbo is a shapeshifter. Born in Morocco, and raised in Canada, Malawi and Kazakhstan, she weaves pop hooks with global influences to create genre-fluid songs about belonging. This is Third Culture Pop.
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