sagaba lyrics by blue scholars

The song sagaba is one of my favorite songs. The second verse is simply amazing, but the whole song is just great…Here are the lyrics to sagaba…

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sista sits on steps, cigarette rests on fingertips
sipping upon a slow death dripping from her lips
she blows a kiss
which i can only resist in vain
she got that gift of gravity pulling to ask her name
she says sagaba
what’s it mean?
she says in ilokano
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 often hopeless like the manner she spoke
we both two people seeking solace in
remembrance and wondering if miracles were meant for us
but intent was just an innocent talk between a brother
and sister sharing wisdom in the guidance of a mother but
the storyteller stops
waiting for the beat to drop
gathering his thoughts in a cloud
breathing out 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 the lies with twisted notions of survival
and hide behind their armor when karma completes a cycle
she replies
that just because i knew a woman well
it don’t mean i know them all
she feigns her farewell
with her eyes inside the sky sighs, “i don’t need anybody”
true indeed sister but you’ll still need everybody
because we hardly know ourselves if we know nobody else
and only in our loneliness can home become a hell
exhale
a cloud in the loudest form of silence
watching as it rises like suns over horizons
the storyteller stops
waiting for the beat to drop
gathering his thoughts in the wind
breathing in like

dreams be the ashes burnt and thrashing in the wind
flying out of the burning bush attached to sista’s hand
she whispers “word”
smiling giving thanks and living in
doubt, no longer as she figures out the riddle to the song
saying why must we suffer now to not suffer later if
later never comes soon enough to soothe the hatred
and hatred is the cancer spilling out love’s absence
and the absence is the void left from missing every chance to
challenge our fate and perhaps our very names
sista says peace and prayers for rain and change
and tosses out her lighter
walks out of the cipher
fa shizzle it starts to drizzle and then i begin to write this
inhale
the imagery
a queen walking steadily
effortlessly and ready to be every woman and now
the storyteller ends
waiting for the beat to fade
gathering his thoughts near the edge of the day like…

Artist: Blue Scholars
Song: Sagaba
http://www.bluescholars.com/

~ by JF on September 12, 2006.