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I Am The One Who Would Save feat. AMYRA

from Boat Building by Tongue Fu

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lyrics

I call on the siren sound for guidance.
Water fills the lungs of the daughter
who has war on her fingertips.
Reckoning fills her lungs with soot,
everything about her is black
and missing,
somehow angry. They never let her tell them
the way she would invite a kinder blessing.

I am the one who would save the ocean from itself.
I am the one who would save.

Too often I feel
running on empty, I manifest the moon as my armour
and begin the journey home,
a place that is riddled with significant dreams
kept in insignificant bodies.
Every body a pawn to the thought of freedom,
every siren song a riot encased in joy,
tinged with wounds and a crimson so violent ,
it challenges the sun at its rise.

I am the one who would save
the ocean from itself.

A roar in the night will find me curious,
will find me knee deep in soil,
begging for the moon to consume me,
always looking to be consumed.
We forget how quickly the tide will come.

I am the one
I am the who would save,
but no one will give me credit.
I am the one
I am the hero in every context,
I am the nigger in every context,
I am the answer to every prayer,
I am the fear in your daughters eyes,
I am the one
I am the one
I am the one they said would not be.

They tried to stop the earth from dancing
but I did not comply.

credits

from Boat Building, released November 27, 2020
Words - Amyra León
Music - Riaan Vosloo, Patrick Davey, Arthur Lea,

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Tongue Fu Bristol, UK

For over a decade Tongue Fu have built a cult following at their live shows where people expect the unexpected. Writer, musician and founder, Chris Redmond, invites poets, comedians, storytellers and rappers to take risks, re-working material live with improvised soundtracks from fleet footed, genre-crunching musicians.

Previous collaborators include Kate Tempest, Soweto Kinch and Akala. ... more

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