Someday - Ruby Ibarra

Yeah, okay

Okay, okay

I wrote this album ‘cause I want my life to change

Tired of being short-changed, I’m tryna remain sane

Hopped off the plane, didn’t stop all the pain

My father’s still in debt and we’ve been strugglin' to pay

For a bedroom up on Meekland Ave, reachin' for just meetin' half

Hands tied against the odds, how the fuck you even that?

The people from the slums once, now livin' the humdrum

Mama from the barrio, so we dreamin' we can stunt once

Mama, I know it’s gon' be fine wherever we go

Cause we know, you raised this girl to dream and be a hero

What’s an ego to an eagle?

I free flow when I speak though

My pipe dream’s through a peephole, my skin’s so Filipino

But often times my pride, inside, is fightin' high tides

The day we broke the ocean was the day I learned to nosedive

Closed eyes, fingerprint ink with the most dye

Those times, mama never blinked, say the oath twice

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday»

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday»

So what’s a freestyle to me?

I been doing this as six years old

Thinkin' on my own two feet, survival pick and go

Pick a role, you can be the swimmer or a sunken soul

I was a six year old without a father figure role

No silver spoons or dinner rolls, so will you fold or will you go?

Pretend to sing like Figaro, my people still invisible

When you the spittin' image of a person that you hate

Makes sense, I’m spittin' images of dawn that never breaks

Nirvana never waits, I was a pawn of bitter fate

That spawned from inner hate, I never wanted to be great

I study my mother, wonder how she holds this family

That minimum salary, stretched as much as it can be

She stressed but keeps that shit from me, I’m just tryna fit in, see

I crave for that acceptance like it validates my sanity

I wrestle with affirmations, settle for masking faces

After all, the stolen lands are always greener places

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday»

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday»

At school, reduced lunches while my mama skip her lunchtime

Nine to five minimum wage, she at the bus line

Here I am, fillin' a page, waitin' to bust rhymes

‘Til I’m nearin' the day I’m getting cosigned

Snare rolls and punchlines, to payrolls and punch time

We take shows like crunch time, we braved those like front lines

My life on these lines ‘cause we never had lifelines

And these days I’m scared of what might go through my mind

I flow like Rizal and I’m writing like Hagedorn

Mixed with Gabriela Silang, now watch as the page mourns

Say my name, it tastes foreign, type to make your face form in ways you never

made

Born from another place, thorns couldn’t break away

Or am I just a breakaway?

From being center stage from off the page, or will I fade away?

I never been the type to say I’m scared of what I have to face

Cause all I ever knew is being me, so all I ever need to say is

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it there someday»

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday» (Someday)

I said, «Mama, we gon' make it here someday»

«Now, before we proceed, we’re going to need you to recite the Naturalization

Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.

You may begin.»

«I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure

all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign state, or sovereignty,

of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;

that I will

support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America…