Blue Scholars - Sagaba

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LYRICS:
Sister sits on the steps 
Cigarette rests on fingertips 
Takes a sip of slow death deathly through her lips, 
She blows a kiss 
Which I can only resist in vain 
She got the gift of gravity pulling to ask her name 
She says Sagaba 
What's it mean - she says in Ilocano 
It translates into suffering 
I'm pondering the irony to conjure up the fearlessness to find a conversation 
She offers me a square, I decline the invitation 
It reminds me of the days when I would chain smoke 
Broken with no hope 
Like broken like the manner she spoke 
We both 
Two people seeking 
Solace and remembrance 
And wondering if miracles were meant for us 
But intent was just an innocent thought between a sister and a brother 
Who been building in the guidance of a mother 
And the storyteller stops 
Waiting for the beat to drop 
Gathering his thoughts in the wind, breathing in like...

Now, I couldn't stand to see the queen breathe her dreams away 
And tell me her tomorrow will never become today 
I say I used to know a woman just like you, 
Beautiful but jaded by the multitude of men who'd often try to 
Justify their lies with twisted notions of survival 
And hide behind their armor when karma completes a cycle 
She replied 
That just because I knew a woman well it doesn't mean I know them all 
She begins to bade farewell 
Eyes up to the sky, she sighs, I need nobody 
True indeed, sister, but you still need everybody because 
We hardly know ourselves if we know nobody else 
And only in our loneliness can home become a hell 
Exhale 
The cloud in the loudest form of silence 
Watches as it rises like suns over horizons 
The storyteller stops 
Waiting for the beat to drop 
Gathering his thoughts in the cloud, breathing out like... 

Dreams be the ashes 
Burns and thrashing in the wind 
Flying out the burning bush attached to sister's hand 
Who whispers “word” 
Smiling and giving thanks, living in doubt no longer 
As she figures out the riddle to the song 
Saying why must we suffer now and not suffer later if later 
Never comes soon enough to soothe the hatred 
And hatred 
Is the cancer born out of love's absence 
And the absence is the void left from missing every chance to 
Challenge our fates and perhaps our very names 
Sister says peace and prayers for rain and change 
Tosses out her lighter 
Walks out of the cipher 
For shizzle it starts to drizzle and then I begin to write this 
Inhale the imagery – a queen walking steadily 
Effortlessly 
Ready to be 
Every woman and now the 
Story teller ends 
Waiting for the beat to fade 
Gathering his thought near the edge of the day like...