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[Red Reine]

Bein' a sister to a brother, is a charge that could splatter,
My mind is overwhelmed, musta got this straight from our mother.
What you and I have is special, it's a special bond,
But we're so different, we just move on, you drive me outright nutty son!

We used to be so close, we used to joke a lot,
Playin' games, chat and actually give a shot,
Black kettle standing next to the black pot,
We were burnt together, yeah, yeah, so what?

My home boy, you're the kid for me,
You silly selfish child, I still see.
My home boy, you're the kid for me,
We come from the same place, drinkin' tea.
Remember, Chi?

'Cause, I remember when we used to sit,
In the little backyard of old town street,
Oma observing the simple things,
Like the little earth worms wriggling to meet.

It was all so simple back then,
We didn't have nothing to bother when,
Long days playin' in the sunshine can,
Outstretch the evening bedtime to ten.

We used to make fun of passerbys,
Grownups with their dazed confused eyes,
All were honest, there were no lies,
Those clowns all needed them face pies.

My home boy, you're the kid for me,
You soft spoken child, I still see.
My home boy, you're the kid for me,
We come from the same place, runnin' free.
Remember, Chi?

I gotta say if I'm real honest,
I miss you child, like I've been lost,
Beyond the oceans that we've crossed,
Is too high a price we've cost.

Can we heal, get back to the way it was?
When did we drift so far so as to not give pause?
It ain't too late, we ain't a lost cause,
Let's put away the jaws and unstick our craws.

Child, this ain't getting any easier,
We ain't getting prettier, just meaner,
Put away the gripe, nobody's superior,
'Cept maybe your imitation of a pitbull terrier!

My home boy, you're the kid for me,
You kind caring child, I still see.
My home boy, you're the kid for me,
We come from the same place, by the lee,
Remember, Chi?

[Blueback]

They say that blood is thicker than water,
Cain and Abel proved that to the world - and to our father,
We were like peas in a pod, rolling in the trenches,
Still are Jack, we're just behind different fences.

'Member when we used to game down at the school yard?
Nobody mess'in wit the boyz cuz we waz off the chart?
Can see them rollin' past now, yeah - picture us rollin',
Hood down in my Bendz/Fjord with my purple drink sippin',

I was always wit'cha home blood, we were always a tight crew,
But I gotta say, you really got on my nerves too,
It's those times man, I nearly lost my way with you!
'Cause you know, Papa didn't raise no foo, right? Coo!

Of all the times we've been through though, through the thick and the mud,
You never left me sideways, byways, you saved me like the lord,
Changes come and go, people Machivelli and grow old cold,
My brother's faith though, he's the only one who can't be sold.

Bruthas 4 life, ya hear me?
Bruthas 4 life, ya feel me?
Bruthas 4 life, ya see me?
That's three times.
Thrice the price.
Triple bound knotted tight.

They used to say, you look a lot like our father, me more like our mother,
But only when we stand still, smile and we swap one another,
We're a composite you know, we're nothin' like our parents,
Dollar bills have their character, but so do their little cents.

'Member when we looked for them berries down the street?
Those blues and reds, we picked'em clean and stuff'em in the back seat?
We rolled with our Pops then, those days were hot bangin',
Raised on flavanoids, free radicals, just pure free cruisin'.

I'm always wit'cha home blood, you know that fo sho, no charges,
This is unconditional, ain't nothing gonna make no changes,
Justice waits for those who drive a wedge between us,
Woe to those who dare give us probable causes!

You better believe double dragons enter like Shaolin masters,
Roundhouse Norris kick any and all interfering matters,
Grand dragons or biblical beasts - we don't care, it don't matter,
We'll shake 'em, break em' - be like water, hear them bones shatter.

Bruthas 4 life, ya hear me?
Bruthas 4 life, ya feel me?
Bruthas 4 life, ya see me?
That's three times.
Thrice the price.
Triple bound knotted tight.

[Red Reine]

Dear pretty one, you ain't the only one,
Who felt like she was born to live out her life like a pawn,
You were the sun, and I the missing one,
Of the family fun - if only I'd been born a son.

I say this as a confessor, that bein' a sister,
Was bound to fester my mind to a scarring blister,
But how I miss her when she not nearer,
That life is so much colder, my smiles are much too rarer.

Let it go (shout), let it go (shout),
Tonight I ain't holding nothin' back no more,
There are things you do I can do without,
Yeah, who do you think I'm talkin' to? Come on!

This competition is a replay repetition,
A sort of rendition of a well-known exposition,
Of a tragic drama, like a cheesy soap opera,
Filled with life time trauma, you may say, childhood karma.

Sometimes you cared, and I took it all bare,
For all you spared of the scraps from the table there,
Picture perfect princess always knew what was best,
You're so lovely and smart, life just wasn't fair!

Let it go (shout), let it go (shout),
Tonight I don't want to hold onto anything bad no more,
There are things you do I can do without,
Yeah, but who can I talk to if not you? Come on!

I want to tell you that what you do,
Or rather the hurtful things that you did do,
Was a lot to take, you know I took all the cake,
No mistake, you really drove in that wooden stake.

But I see now that the stabbing, the crying,
The lying, the mean girl justifying,
Was all a part of growing up, a callousing tear up,
We never shut up, we let them words fly open up.

Let it go (shout), let it go (shout),
Tonight I want you to know that you mean much more,
There are things you do I can do without,
Yeah, but sisters need to hold each other true too. Come on!

Cuz when the world keeps getting cold,
And we're told that we shouldn't ever fold,
We got each other with our tongues like razor blades,
Slicing and dicing, whopping savage all 'em shades.

Sister, sister, we got each other,
We ain't rivals no more, isn't that right partner?
We used to be princesses but look at us now in the mirror,
Behold the queens of the chessboard - your move, sugar!

Let it go (shout), let it go (shout),
Tonight I'm all about shaking this house to the core,
There are things you do I can do without,
Yeah, but water under the bridge, we do what we do. Come on!

[Blueback]

Seems like yesterday when mama told me,
Look after bonita, keep an eye on her for me,
Listen for dangers, don't talk to no strangers,
Stay out of trouble - it was almost like you were born in a manger.

Like a shining angel, you flew into our lives,
You appeared one day and you lit up the house with your bright lights,
You spread your feathered wings of innocent white,
And showed us a splendid glowing sight of heavenly might.

I don't think I ever felt burdened by you,
To look after you even though you didn't need me to,
It was me that needed looking after, you know,
Big brother always got in more trouble than my pequenita.

And although I was never as good as I shoulda been,
I fell short many a time of the charge that I was put in,
I cared for you a lot, although I coulda showed it better,
It just didn't ever come out as well I had hoped together.

Que sera, sera,
What will be, will be,
How could I foresee,
That you'd mean so much to me.
Que sera, sera.

Of all the times you stood up for me, and for our family,
I never had the balls to tell you, but believe me,
They touched my heart even though I played my part,
Of the stoic man scared of his emotional past.

El nina, you're sweet but you're a storm when you're fuming,
Sky grows dark when your blood starts boiling,
People run for shelter when they see you approaching,
Just glad that your anger for me was rare to see.

That's the thing you see, about you and me,
Nothing comes between the familia en nuestra casa,
They can say all they want about us and our quaint ways,
But they ain't gonna ever win against this angelita mia.

Que sera, sera,
What will be, will be,
How could I foresee,
That you'd mean so much to me.
Que sera, sera.

[Red Reine]

I have a friend on this ship, who gives me a whole lotta lip,
It's like a snip from a clip, from an old blockbuster flick.
A dojo hammer whammer, sprayin' slammer grammar,
Lets me know with no manners, holds nothin' back - except maybe for the spanners.

I was told the other day that I was on the wrong,
Of something clever I had heard, that I parroted from a song,
We argued a lot about it, then about everything under the sun,
I couldn't understand then, but in hindsight it was all in good fun.

Because when a mate on this ship is about to go over,
You make sure you get your crew back in order,
No man or woman left behind on this maiden voyage,
First mate reports with ropes on high sailage.

A friend asked me the other day, why I gotta be that way,
To which I answered, I gotta be me, I gotta do what I gotta do,
Then I saw that look on my friend's face, and I gotta say,
That was not a good day, to which I dearly still pay.

I know I messed up constantly, you were always there for me,
I never asked for you to be though, you did so anyways for free,
You said that that's what friends do, that we gotta stay true,
It's the life we choose, cuz if we don't choose, we ultimately lose.

Because when a mate on this ship is about to go over,
You make sure you get your crew back in order,
No man or woman left behind on this maiden voyage,
First mate reports with ropes on high sailage.

When I'm down and out, those times I scream and shout,
When the world chews me up bubblegum and spits me out,
You're there to catch me fallin', before I hit the ground burnin',
You wrap me up and keep me from turnin' into somethin' not worth considerin'.

So yeah, "thank you", that's what I really wanted to say,
It was just my long winded way of saying what I was owed you to pay,
You set me straight when I went awry, and kept me laughin' instead-o being sorry,
You're a good friend, the best, and yeah... I need to also say, "I'm sorry".

Because when a mate on this ship is about to go over,
You make sure you get your crew back in order,
No man or woman left behind on this maiden voyage,
First mate reports with ropes on high sailage.

[Blueback]

I don't want to set the world on fire,
But you pushed me to the edge of this funeral pyre,
To set ablaze this our bridge over the mire,
Such a waste built by a *sigh* a treacherous liar.

I know people change, they rearrange,
Two become estranged, boil hard enraged,
We're all strange, friends become strangers,
Burning tips to cinders, we grow sharp stingers.

But most of all, out of all-a-dis-is I'm hurt,
I'm hurt the way you so easily discarded us,
Our companionship through the cold darkness,
Our shine through the gaslit midnight madness.

Call it my indignant righteous sadness,
Of a grievance, of a once-upon-a-time partners,
I gotta say, I just gotta say,
You broke my heart! You broke my heart!

After the fire comes the nuclear winter,
"Now is the winter of our discontent", says the writer,
We ain't no more after this meteor shower,
Scorched earth, sour, dour, prickly prig power.

I don't get it, but this is what you wanted,
Seriously, is this what you really really wanted?
What happened to the good times, the old times,
The best of days, before the commitment of your crimes?

I'm ice cold, as cold as I've even been,
There's no room here for you and for your sin,
You brought this house of cards to ruin,
Take the pain, the bloody rain, I ain't goin' feign.

Call it my indignant righteous sadness,
Of a grievance, of a once-upon-a-time partners,
I gotta say, I just gotta say,
You broke my heart! You broke my heart!

Once the winter parts, the green will return,
But until then, I wish you good luck, "my lesson learned",
We traded blows, slaps and taps, and the occasional snack,
I'm still mad at you though, so you better watch your back.

You think I hold a grudge? Over you? Nah,
Do whatever you want, disappear, get outta here,
Just sayin' it'll take more than an olive branch and a dove,
For the bridge your blew up to rise out of the pigeon grove.

Call it my indignant righteous sadness,
Of a grievance, of a once-upon-a-time partners,
I gotta say, I just gotta say,
You broke my heart! You broke my heart!

[Red Reine]

Enemy - I know you want the death of me,
Like - "Do I know what nemesis means", really?
You think I was born yesterday, do ya?
Come here for a second and hold this for me, would ya?

Sup, doc? That anvil's not a good look on your head,
Maybe you want a carrot with a fuse instead?
I dunno why I bother to even light it,
Ja'know you'll do it yourself, right mate?

Try to understand, Coy ACME Wily,
Meep meep meep, meep-meep, meep meep meep,
That's code for Sundown On Sucka,
Don't look up! Reality's about ta drop on ya!

Hey-Ho-Professor! Lesson's in session! No more messin'!
Teacher's about to ring it! The bell says, teacher's about to bring it!
Yo-yo-Professor! Pupil's in regression! Pay attention!
Take a seat - ya heard it! I herd ya - Sit! I said sit!

I ain't gonna lie - your stare? I don't care,
Not a single bit about you or your death scare,
You're just not that important to register,
Go back into your hole and become uncle fester.

I'm a menace, though some call me Dennis,
To you I can be a heap of letters on a terrace,
All-a-them with pink notes and pretty pictures saying,
"Hi! Ok lady, I love you, buhbuy!"

Hey-Ho-Professor! Lesson's in session! No more messin'!
Teacher's about to ring it! The bell says, teacher's about to bring it!
Yo-yo-Professor! Pupil's in regression! Pay attention!
Take a seat - ya heard it! I herd ya - Sit! I said sit!

Vengeance is a dish I'd rather saute,
Though some like it salty with vinaigrette,
Burn! Just a little bit cuz I don't wanna hurt ya,
Believe me homie, this way you cook a lot betta!

Puttytat, puttytat, where're you at?
Look behind ya! Andale, Arrrrrriba!
Did ya forget my dogs have my back, mac?
You about to suffer a whole-lotta succotash.

Hey-Ho-Professor! Lesson's in session! No more messin'!
Teacher's about to ring it! The bell says, teacher's about to bring it!
Yo-yo-Professor! Pupil's in regression! Pay attention!
Take a seat - ya heard it! I herd ya - Sit! I said sit!

[Blueback]

Guilt. It hits you suddenly like a guillotine.
But it also lingers, rotting within - a long time coming.
It gnaws away at you, eating you alive from the inside.
Maggots in my eyes, flies in my tortured mind confide.

Buzzing in my head, screaming in my ears,
Can't get it out, not even with an evening full of tears,
I want to be rid of it, but my pride gets in the way,
Grounded knees is the price asked to be paid.

For all the pain I've caused you.
For all the ways I've mistreated you.
For turning you away when you needed me the most.
For the hurtful things I've said - some of the worst.

I'm sorry. Please forgive me.
I'm so sorry. Believe me, please believe me.

Forgiveness. It's a gift most precious given.
But it's rare to receive it, transgression's too big to be forgiven.
It's a torture to be denied, where pointing fingers reside.
Specters stare knowing, geists howling hollow beside.

Can't escape fate full of hauntings, familiar faces.
Face the music - pay the ferryman - no more seats or spaces.
Don't know what to do, I beg you to give me rest,
Outstretched hands and repentance are the precious coins of test.

For all the misery I've caused you.
For all the ways I took advantage of you.
For turning you into something you didn't want to be.
For keeping you down under - downtrodden under me.

I'm sorry. Please forgive me.
I'm so sorry. Believe me, please believe me.

Reconciliation. It's a big word full of promises.
But a promise nonetheless - and it takes time to heal, I must confess,
Unless we take less from each other, and give more than we rake in,
Fly from the lake of fire, where angels dwell blest singin'.

What I've taken from you, I can never repay enough,
But to make right the wrongs of the tumbles and the rough,
If the penitent's path is a fool's journey north,
Then let it be so. There's only eternal fire below.

For all the shame I've brought on you.
For all the ways I've lied and manipulated you.
For making you think and do the things you never wanted to do.
For making you suffer - just because I wanted you to.

I'm sorry. Please forgive me.
I'm so sorry. Believe me, please believe me.

I'm your worst enemy and you have every reason to deny me.
But I'm asking you in my hour of need. Can you please forgive me?