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island people - soultree lyrics

rise up, rise up, rise up
rise, rise, rise, rise, rise

we’d always go cruisin
in the islands we’re losing
which side are you choosing?
with their guns or the people they’re shooting?
which side are you choosing?
with their guns or the people they’re shooting?
i wanna see you rise up my beautiful island people

i’m just an island girl who always loved to sing
i would walk beside the sea send a natural ring
to my motherland across the ocean
mama esther’s ancestral home in catbalogan
this heart has been filling with a long distance love
you give /as much as you can but it never / feels enough
calling cards and sending money to family you never met
the mind may not remember, but the heart never forgets
the closeness can be dependent in debt it’s hard to survive
our gdp is dependent on caring for others’ lives
even though we putting our health and families on hold
streets watch after your babies you pray they get to grow old
we all inherited forms of internalized hate
not knowing that the root is violence by the state
colonial conversions seem like they control you now
take the food your lola makes and tell you how to sip sabaw, h*ll nah!
we’d always go cruisin
in the islands we’re losing
which side are you choosing?
with their guns or the people they’re shooting?
which side are you choosing?
with their guns or the people they’re shooting?
i wanna see you rise up my beautiful island people

stolen lands living the broke stay woke
y’all might share the same skin but don’t act like kinfolk
found my people in the streets, writing songs, making beats
i been sharpening my tongue on tagalog & marshallese
now we’re facing the reality of being climate refugees
my body, mind, and heart fell in a state of dis*ease
sought healing from my shaman brother beating on the drums
ancestors of our lands told me they will never succumb
i’m taking refuge by calling our islands by their real name
etan in lolelaplap though she may never look the same
kwōj ped ilo buruō ikaw ang nasa puso ko
you’re in my heart is what i’m saying and i refuse to go
when they tell us stay in line and take all of their orders
imma tell em they can eat all these rocks i’m throwing at their borders
stop their military occupation of our lands
they only care bout power not a single grain of sand so

we’d always go cruisin
in the islands we’re winning
the world keeps on spinning
lift up your voice if you feel what i’m feeling
the world keeps on spinning
lift up your voice if you feel what i’m feeling
i wanna see you rise up my beautiful island
i see you
i love you
naj loe eok
iakwe is eok
kitang kita kita
mahal na mahal kita

- soultree lyrics

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