Self-Scribed

Okay, that's so dope
Michelin's in Costa Rica, that's so awesome
What? Costa Rica?
I hate you so much

Finally I can breathe, the silence was created just for me
Mama asked me to find Him, but it wasn't so easy to believe
In attempt to find peace, Michael asked me to look into my soul
In the mirror, he told me: in the love, in the heat, you've found, found a new home

The love, the heat, I've found a new home
The love, the heat, I've found a new soul
The love, the heat, I've found a new home
The love, the heat, I've found a new soul

If you take the chance you're given
You can't blame it on the life you're livin'
Trade it in for the ones you love the most
Or that's your own damn fault

Look at little Lano comin' down from this high
A forgotten story told from an immigrant's eye
Fantasize, hypothesize, if I'd never left the P.I.
If I'd be something more than a product of papa's supply

In Manila, strugglin' to fly across the sea
In a home self-scribed in the key of Scott Key
In a white household with a curly-headed dream
Ignorant to a carousel of demi-gods and fiends

So dramatic, so theatric, but no longer an addict
An erratic force of habit from a model demographic
Not a doctor, not a fighter; a singer-songwriter
In quotes I'm described an occupational liar

There's a fire transpired from a center down below
In a world black and white, where's the fight for brown or yellow though?
A stone already thrown, so I'm letting go of home
But at least in the heat, never again will I feel alone, sige?

If you take the chance you're given (If you take, if you)
You can't blame it on the life you're livin'
Trade it in for the ones you love the most
Or that's your own damn fault

Nevertheless I'm pressed by the pressure of success
To test the less oppressed rest who are the best dressed
Lest we find another, protest to protect each other
I'll never feel content 'til I have a relationship with my brother

And my sisters back home, a father I've never known
It's my own damn fault I'm a myth from their unknown
Will they see me as their kuya? Will it take a hallelujah?
Prove my words can guide me through ya, I gotta sing it to ya with

The love, the heat, I've found a home (I've found a new home)
The love, the heat, I've found a soul (I've found a new soul)
The love, the heat, I've found a home (I've found a new home)
The love, the heat, I've found a soul (I've found a new soul)

Finally I can breathe, the silence was created just for me
And it's not that there's no sorry, mama, I'm just terrified to be
In attempt to find peace, the rhythm found its, found its way into my soul
My brother he told me, in the love in the heat, we're missing you back home

Well, that's my own damn fault