Lemongrass

from S A L V E by NASRA

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lyrics

yellow was my name growin up
smile saved the bell
brought the day
no matter what
couldn’t bare to give it up
the sweetness
the deepness
the good that made me up

the story goes
curiosity shows
the little ones
the cosmic tongues
could bare the load

CHORUS
*SHAKER LAYER TO BE CHORUS*
Lemongrass
grows through my fingers
pray it lasts
the poison still lingers

roots intact
Water filling seed
this joy
could be
sowing
growing
all I need

Opening the road
Feeling holy
Been a long time
Moulding slowly
Still a Sun
A lil stronger
no longer on the run from
Me
met the mirror
mirror won
took the time
to come undone
learn my language of love
see fear as the drug

that hooked
the crooked
kept us cooking
bent the backs
taxed the land
taught to grin
and bare the bullet
this the solar plexus
of the new school
say my name
say my name
the ground rule
i am me
i am you
i am we
a generation overcome
meeting shame
praising love

Lemongrass
glows through my fingers
pray it lasts
the poison still lingers

roots intact
Water filling seed
this joy
could be
sowing
growing
all I need

BRIDGE
could this really be my happy
could this really be the day i enjoy me (for me)
could I really be my own free
call me lemon
call me sour
you don’t own me
Lemongrass
glowing through my fingers
pray it lasts
cause the poison lingers

Lemongrass
glows through my fingers
pray it lasts
the poison still lingers

roots intact
Water filling seed
this joy
could be
sowing
growing
all I need

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from S A L V E, released August 8, 2020

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NASRA Edmonton, Alberta

NASRA is a queer, Muslim, Oromo multidisciplinary artist living in Amiskwaciywaskahikan (Edmonton)/ Youth Poet Laureate of Edmonton 2017. Founder of Black Arts Matter. 2017 Recipient of the Mayor’s Emerging Artist award.NASRA’s chapbook A God Dance in Human Cloth was the co-recipient of the BP Nichols National Chapbook award in 2019. Their newly released EP “Salve” is their latest call to healing. ... more

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