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bandy andy - wheel ii (mama told me) lyrics

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[chorus]
mama told me
this wheel gon’ keep spinning ’round
unless we learn to face our actions and be proud
they tried to take our world back to day one
so you never forget where we came from

[verse 1]
grandma came from one jungle to another
still hung up on what happened to her brothers
and sisters, most of them was dead and gone
like jt and t.i. on that platinum song

mom and dad chose to work a 9 to 9
to keep the lights at the house on inside
kids went to get a shiny college degree
or end up in some shady sh-t that they’d never see

see, all my homies got survivor’s guilt
to go and build a world our parents can’t or will
and when it comes down to what the will’s got in it
i will make sure that they deserve to finish

’cause i don’t like to hear my dad screaming in the night
crying for his brother as he takes a flight
to the land of the free or land of refugees
to wake up and realize his bro’s soul been free

[chorus]
mama told me
this wheel gon’ keep spinning ’round
unless we learn to face our actions and be proud
they tried to take our world back to day one
so you never forget where we came from

mama told me
this wheel always gonna be bound to the spin
of what you let push you around
so my son, one thing you don’t forget
the story of our family, this very moment

[verse 2]
some of my family don’t have it so easy
got a milli problems like they got ’em from weezy
smoking too much, coughing and wheezing
addicted to it ’cause in the camps it was pleasing

they ask, how can we bother to trust?
when my neighbor snitching could’ve turned me to dust
for using tylenol, acetaminophen
k!lling pain-k!ller users, women and men

imagine if the white house and the president
said on cnn it’s just a means to an end
that our whole lives been plagued by what we love
those were just wrong ideas in your heads that were shoved

they shove it down your throat just to drown it
or put the lead in your throat, and down it
whatever makes the k!lling faster in these k!lling fields
our parents got some problems they could never heal

[chorus]
mama told me
this wheel gon’ keep spinning ’round
unless we learn to face our actions and be proud
they tried to take our world back to day one
so you never forget where we came from

mama told me
this wheel always gonna be bound to the spin
of what you let push you around
so my son, one thing you don’t forget
the story of our family, this very moment

[verse 3]
“mama, oh my god, jesus christ”
i exclaimed at the table over rice
“why you never tell me these stories from when you were a kid?
you acting like it’s some fiction that you never did”

she said swiftly
“i don’t wanna talk about it
i have to live my life so i don’t wanna walk about it
the wrong way, holding onto grandpa, he’s in the past
eat your dinner, it’s gon’ get cold fast”

ten years later and i can see
the difficulty in talking
when talking will lead

to nowhere but more bad dreams
that’s bitter, no sweet
don’t even speak the same language
literally

but mama i know i ain’t said this yet
so i’m speaking on the track
to set the record set, you can talk to me ’bout what’s in your head
one thing you don’t forget

[chorus]
mama told me
this wheel gon’ keep spinning ’round
unless we learn to face our actions and be proud
they tried to take our world back to day one
so you never forget where we came from

mama told me
this wheel always gonna be bound to the spin
of what you let push you around
so my son, one thing you don’t forget
the story of our family, this very moment

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