(guitar plays introduction)
girl:
adah da da da da da! adah da da da da da! adah da! adah da da da da da!
(drum beat)
boy singing chorus in flipino language:
lapit mga kaibigan ko at makinig kayo. (listen up, ya'll!) u buy! Meron akong dala-dalang balita galing sa bayan ko. (listen closely, ya'll!) nais kung ipamahagi ang mga kwento at ang mga pangyayaring nagaganap sa lupang ipinangako a oh!
(yo! every place got a getto! dis my version of it. check it out!)
listen closely ya'll! i got a story to tell. a version of my getto of wat life felt for real. someone called it hell, but for me, it was heaven. God gave me da amanin' ways of livin'. how would u feel if you had to catch a meal, build a hut to live in, to eat and chillin'? having to pump da water out of da ground. da way we put it down, you'd realize wat is around like land for farmin', river for fishin', everyone helping each other whenever thinking. we makin' it happen. for nothin' to somethin'. dat's wat how we be somebody back in my homeland.
(chorus)
(yo! it's been a while, but i've been back home in my homeland. check it out. dis is wat's goin' on)
man! it's great to be back at home. (back at home) it's been a decade on da journey all along. i was 14 when i first left Phillipines. i've been away half my life, and it felt like a dream to be next to my mom with her home-cooked meal, man. i feel complete! my emotions are filled now! life fast chis for me in the U.S., but back at home , man, life was a mess. i guess sometimes life's besses get u down. (oh, your knees!) oh brother, wish i could've helped u out!
(chorus)
(man, help!) repeat 14 more times, but voice is going deeper.)
(end)
