Bang Data performing "Loco" in Oakland, CA for 2017's NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest submission.
LOCO
Loco I’m goin’ loco loco
We goin’ loco
The mirror it looks back
Can I handle this?
I strive for the good life
Just a small fish
A house and a good wife
It’s a small gift
Zombies in the street walking’ like they soulless
People pass by looking’ at a stranger’
I don’t ask why they puttin’ me in danger
It’s hard to focus
That’s why I wrote this
It’s not a joke
it’s hard
I’m feelin’ hopeless
Ya can’t stop it
I’m getting’ fed up
When I fell my daddy told me better get up
When your talking’
Keep your head up
Pay attention every word and every letter
Loco I’m goin’ loco loco
Don’t wanna go loco
Run the streets at night
Homeless outta sight
Fires shinin’ bright
Can you see the light?
Raise a fist to fight
Are we gonna be alright?
Never wanted to go loco
But I just might
Run and tell a friend
this is not the end
Here we go again
Wanna be a father not a hooligan
Think I’m ready to begin
Gotta hold it all together
For these children
I got a broke soul
And a heart of gold
I’m a give it
How I give it til I get old
They got a choke hold
They won’t let go
its enough to drive another brother loco
Loco I’m goin’ loco loco
Loco We goin’ loco
Loco feeling loco loco
Loco I wanna go loco
I know that sometimes it be looking’ like a brick wall
They wanna stop us from connecting but it will fall
It’s hard to keep it all together when you feel it all
But we gon make it feel like everyday is new ya’ll
My abuelita used to pray for me like everyday
I think of all the dreams she had when she moved the The Bay
She helped to raise a little soldier but I went a astray
I know that many people feel the way I do today
They desecratin’
but my peoples on the frontline
I celebrate em’ every time I write another rhyme
They can’t create em’ better
We did it in this time
It’s ok to be a little loco in your mind
I got a broke soul
And a heart of gold
I’m a give it
How I give it til I get old
They got a choke hold
They won’t let go
its enough to drive a another brother loco
Ohhhh 4x’s
Ya can’t stop it
I’m getting’ fed up
When I fell my daddy told me better get up
When your talking’
Keep your head up
Pay attention every word and every letter
I got a broke soul and a heart of gold
I’m a give it how I give it til I get old
They got a choke hold
They won’t let go
its enough to drive a another brother loco
Loco I’m goin’ loco
Loco We goin’ loco
Loco I’m feelin loco
Loco I wanna go loco
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