Remyth Project: Southend Memories

[yeloson]

There's a place where the kids all play
On them bikes, them breakers, them skip rocks on the lake,
The 3 months of sunshine get stretched into lifetimes
And Joe Metro is a heartbeat that defines a city's lifelines.

There's place that cuts from Mount McClellan down to the Beach
The trees cut the gravel that never was sidewalks with they roots deep in the streets
Halfway up the hill no lights and one lane curved roads
Halfway down old homes hard to keep cool and hard to keep warm

Tongues so plenty you speak 9 words of 20 things
Eat Lao food with Haitian racers over Hawaiian breakbeats
And the nights wet and cold make you want to lay down to the last
And the fire of struggle make you the first out to snap

Who you were ain't like who you are to who you is
Even if they cut up Rainier with trains for white folks to take long trips
Even if they Starbuck up and knock out the community biz
Forever immigrant travel long, but don't set out to trip

Southside is the song and in my heart it still lives.