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from FolK tOLd Me EP by Folk Told Me

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Plantain chips on the tip of my tongue, bodega store
Same lady begging for a quarter never asking for more
Walk inside what do I buy, a coconut water
Running a Q train’s a coming
Brooklyn trails behind
And I’m on the Manhattan line
Chinatown just passed me by
Overpopulated train of confusion
The next stop is
Not where I live
But I’m gonna get off here

Gibela nasi istimela ntombi
Wasala kuchitheki’gazi lemvana
Uthunyiwe ngegama elabantu abakini
Hamba ntombi uyoslwela empini 2x

Prettiest train that I ever seen
Prettiest train that I ever seen
Prettiest train that I ever seen
Headed in the direction of my destiny 2x

Translation notes:
1. GET ON, HERE’S A TRAIN GIRL (here is a life situation or an injustice that you must tackle girl)

2. IF YOU GET LEFT BEHIND THE BLOOD OF A LAMB(think innocence!) WILL SPILL - (if you miss the opportunity, if you abandon, cower or shy away from your responsibility then a few ‘weak, vulnerable and innocent’ people will suffer)

3. YOU HAVE BEEN SENT IN THE NAME OF YOUR PEOPLE – (you have been entrusted with carrying out your people’s historical mission)

4. GO GIRL AND FIGHT FOR US AT WAR – (you are our servant and hero so go and do good for us…)

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from FolK tOLd Me EP, released December 15, 2011

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Folk Told Me is a band of melodic sankofa martians, spinning stories like hip hop griots doomed to this place called earth, traveling in sound sparring with myopic modes of being…freeing. . .

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