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We was born up in them other lands
Philippines is our motherland
Me and my brother
Just me and my brother
When they see us they stop and stare
Cuz we are something normal people could never comprehend
Different
Brown skin, black hair, small stature
Two minds, one body, no fracture
Interconnected like that
So you know what we mean when we say
I got my brother's back
Rat tat tat
Connected
Brodie from the womb to the tomb
We connected
Tell me baby am I cutting through
We connected
Do you know everything we been through
What a blessing
Connected
Me and my brodie
We connected
What a blessing
Me and my brodie
We connected
Simplicio:
I don't know if they feel us, Lu
Lucio:
Aye keep talking that talk bro.
Uhh!
Listen up!
1898 the bayan was under siege
Four centuries of Spain
Then entered a new regime
Anglo America
What do you want from me
Rape my momma and my sisters
Then pillage our family tree
It ain't only mangoes and rice
You exporting
No work sa Pilipinas
So the people have to flee
Uhh
Making dollars while we sing
Then send money back in remittances
So the family can eat
Uhh
I keep my family with me
Took us from tatay and nanay young
So they call us a circus freak
Ain't no side show, you paying me
We pulling up in a Phantom
Tailored suits, rocking mink
Lucio:
I know you saw me and my brother
Pull up
Rolls Royce
Something different
Extraordinary
Something you've never seen before
Welcome to the freak show
Connected
Brodie from the womb to the tomb
We connected
Tell me baby am I cutting through
We connected
Do you know everything we been through
What a blessing
Connected
Me and my brodie
We connected
What a blessing
Me and my brodie
We connected
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2. |
Who Am I? (Mr. Godino)
02:28
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That’s my twin
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino, yeah
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino
That’s my twin
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino, yeah
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino
Who am I?
A walking intersection
Godino boys, yeah we repping
Conjoined Filipinos, we some legends
Beautiful beyond comprehension
Who am I?
A walking intersection
Disability but still getting it
Really hyperabled evidenced by the tension
That the audience feels when we singing out our message
One of one
Filipino boys just want to have fun
Find us in the Phantom straight cruising in the sun
Stacking every dollar bill
Boy there ain’t no free lunch
Through the circus lens
Yeah they viewed us with awe
As if or conjoinedness really was a flaw
Musical giants barely five feet tall
And the girls go crazy when they see us at the mall
That’s my twin
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino, yeah
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino
That’s my twin
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino, yeah
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino
Who am I?
Young Lucio
Baby come through shoot it’s about to be a trio
Rapping like a griot
Sipping pinot grigio
Straight out the carnival
Like we out in Rio
Who am I?
Simplicio
Looking real fly dressed like Filipino titos
Raking up the fives, tens, twenties, and the c-notes
And I bet it all on black at the casino
Who am I?
Two beats on the same drum
You’d be stunting to if you came were we came from
A set of twins with more clout? Name one
Why you stuttering? Boy this aint the time to play dumb.
A life story arch you could never make up
Painting perfect pictures, you should come and frame some
Brodie we’re on top
You’re on a lame run
And I promise you, we’ll never change up
That’s my twin
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino, yeah
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino
That’s my twin
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino, yeah
Mr. Godino
Mr. Godino
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3. |
Bodymind
03:01
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Bodymind
Bodymind
Bodymind
Bodymind
Soul to soul
Something you’d hardly find
Story that’s lost in time
Ready behold
Spectacle cruel and it’s taking it toll
We was just youngins forced out on the road
Manager making like hundreds a show
While we singing and dancing with nothing to show for it
Bodymind
Bodymind
Bodymind
Pray this body be kind to us
They staring but really they blind to us
We don’t know anyone we can trust
Everyone trying to make a buck
Tell me what about this is fair and just
Staring but they aren’t hearing us
Bodymind
Bodymind
We are two, yet one of a kind
On the stage in the lights
Tied by fate we still shine
In the eyes of the crowd
Our spirits, they fly
Bodymind
Bodymind
In this life side by side
Oh
In this life side by side
Oh
In this life side by side
Oh
In this life side by side
Oh
In this life side by side
Stuck in a human zoo shackled and chained
Cast for their gaze
In a spectacle dazed
This is how we’ve been spending our days
Two souls emerged yet it’s freedom we crave
Blazing our trail and the road isn’t paved
Making our way brodie day after day
Making our way brodie day after day
Harmonic resurgence in every note
Singing of freedom’s what keeps afloat
From the Philippines, we fresh off the boat
Performing for masses, we put on a show
You wouldn’t want to be me
But we gon keep singing until we’re truly free
We are not spectacle, please leave us be
From inside this cage, music is key
Bodymind
Bodymind
We are two, yet one of a kind
On the stage in the lights
Tied by fate we still shine
In the eyes of the crowd
Our spirits, they fly
Bodymind
Bodymind
In this life side by side
Oh
In this life side by side
Oh
In this life side by side
Oh
In this life side by side
Oh
In this life side by side
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4. |
Wisdom of the Ancestors
02:12
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From the Philippines to Coney Island
On this vaudeville stage me and my bro be wildin’
Come on through right here in my tent
Everything seem cool yet it’s utterly violent
Born in this world where difference is scorned
Conjoined and Filipino our identities adorned
They call us freaks, yet they coming back for more
Shoot we selling Black music
You can’t buy it in the store
Exploitation, degradation
That’s the law of this American nation
Exploitation, degradation
Are you hearing all these words that I’m saying?
(Chris Tucker sample from Rush Hour: Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?)
All this for fun and entertainment
Me and my brother like, “Are you entertained yet?”
Look at our pictures, is it painted or it’s tainted?
Audience laughing, but their minds lay vacant
Me and my brother stay patient
Work seven days a week, homie no vacation
Exploitation, degradation
That’s the law of this American nation
Uh
Wisdom of the ancestors
Wisdom of the ancestors
Wisdom of the ancestors
Wisdom of the ancestors
In the midst of all this darkness
We gon always make a way
Navigating all challenges
Come what may
Conjoined body is a symbol of our strength
Bound together by the rhythm
We’re defying all the hate
Pinoy roots, yeah it’s deep within our soul
Heritage rich, with these stories untold
Look at our lineage
Vibrant and bold
Survived Spain and American
Boy them Filipinos cold!
Wisdom of the ancestors
Wisdom of the ancestors
Wisdom of the ancestors
Wisdom of the ancestors
Take heed to the score
From Luzon’s green mountains
To Visayan sea shores
Born in this world where different is scorned
Cojoined and Filipino, our identities adorned
Wisdom of the ancestors
Wisdom of the ancestors
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5. |
They Don't Even Know
03:08
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They don’t even know
Everything that we’ve been through
They don’t even know
Everything that we’ve been through
But we’re still here
(Still here, still here)
And we’re not going nowhere
No, nowhere
Brother we done come from out of nothing oh
Never seen us coming but we’re coming for
Every single reparation that we’re owed
Finally feeling free and so fantastical
Hop out the whip, asking what’s next
We’re paying respects
The rooking, the vet
Who making it crack
Don’t get yourself checked
We’ve been with the shits
We’re still with the shits
We’re just older and wiser
Growing in spite of this American nightmare
That want me to die young
Two Brown boys but we’re pro Black
Military minded, better know that
Revolution recorded on audio tracks
Uplifting the people no Prozac
We are the kings and the queens
And spiritual beings
Don’t get caught up with material things
I’m saying keep your heat pure and you will be at peace
And may the light inside you shine bright and never do cease
They don’t even know
Everything that we’ve been through
They don’t even know
Everything that we’ve been through
But we’re still here
(Still here, still here)
And we’re not going nowhere
No, nowhere
Brother we done come from out of nothing oh
Shining cuz we’re from the archipelago
Water on the beat
Water on the beat
I call this here my Pacific ocean flow
Hop off the boat into the Rolls
Get it an go
We are the goats
From growing up poor
To touring the road
You don’t want smoke
With me and my team, we’re living out dreams now
Getting this cream
And fans start to scream
“We want Godinos!”
Two Brown boys wearing black tie
Hate to break it to you but we’re that guy
Everything we do we’re looking mad fly
Cuz we are Filipino baby that’s why
No flexing
Pay us full in cash, nah we don’t accept checks and
No stressing
Anything is possible that be the message
They don’t even know
Everything that we’ve been through
They don’t even know
Everything that we’ve been through
But we’re still here
(Still here, still here)
And we’re not going nowhere
No, nowhere
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6. |
Self Love
03:34
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah oh
Born in Samar
On an island near a beach
They in uproar when they see we
But we only wanna sing
For you and you
Coming from far
But it’s closer than it’s seems
Prism lights a trillion beams
Entire spectrum full and deep
Deep lover
I could show you whole new worlds
Under covers
Two become one
Too much wouldn’t wanna
Pressure make diamonds
And we pressing on forward
Take a ride with me
Multiple facets
Different sides of me
Oh
We just doing our thing
Put us on stages so we could be seen
Come come
See the universe through the eyes of my brother
Two minds one lover
Heart shine through
Lead us out of the struggle
Take your time with me
Multiple facets
Different sides of me
Oh
We’re just doing our thing
Dancing on stages
Living out dreams
Loving you is easy
Loving me loving you oh
Loving you is easy
So wonderful
Gotta love the skin that we in
This a toast to our melanin
Breaking gates down that they wouldn’t let us in
Playing keep away with our medicine
I mix the candy with the healing
Candy paint drippin riding low when you see us
Go from the islands cuz we wyling with the sound
Grow from the ocean we got water watch you drown with a frown clown
We was selling out shows down town
Before sun down towns
Fans going crazy when we come ‘round now
Billboard saying that we wow our crowds
All in attendance for the spectacle that we be
When really all we dreaming of is how to live freely
Still showing love holla at me when you see me
This life gets freaky, we be shining bright in 3D
I just wanna chill by the water with the family
We just want our fair share, honesty, integrity
Carve our own history, change the world viscerally
Debunk any mystery, with dignity
The missing link
Deep lover
I could show you whole new worlds
Under covers
Two become one
Too much wouldn’t wanna
Pressure make diamonds
And we pressing on forward
Take a ride with me
Multiple facets
Different sides of me
Oh
We just doing our thing
Put us on stages so we could be seen
Come come
See the universe through the eyes of my brother
Two minds one lover
Heart shine through
Lead us out of the struggle
Take your time with me
Multiple facets
Different sides of me
Oh
We’re just doing our thing
Dancing on stages
Living out dreams
Loving you is easy
Loving me loving you oh
Loving you is easy
So wonderful
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah oh
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7. |
We Are Filipino
03:35
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Sample:
We are Siamese if you please
We are Siamese if you don’t please
Lucio and Simplicio:
Aye yo I’m tired of this Siamese stuff bro
I know all in the papers, they be calling us Siamese
We’re not Siamese, we’re Filipino
Exactly
We’re going to let them know, though
We are Filipino if you please
We are Filipino if you don’t please
Embracing our roots and proud to reassure
Filipino blood flowing in our core
We are Filipino if you please
We are Filipino if you don’t please
Now we’re looking forward to a world tour
United we stand a cultural allure
We’re not the Bunker twins
We are the Godinos
We are not from Siam
Nah, we’re Filipino
Different set of twins, next of kin
We’re the truth
They reduced us to the sideshow circus booth
At the World’s Fair
They referred to us as savages
No longer confined by everybody’s ravages
Uncharted territory, marking new passages
If you call us Siamese, we calling you blasphemous
Don’t label us freaks
Can’t you hear the revolution whenever we sing?
Conjoined by fate but our heartbeat is free
Filipino pride is our one true decree
We’re not Siamese
We come from the Philippines and we’re proud to be
Ako ay Pilipino
Sing it with me
Lucio and Simplicio
Proud Pinoy kings
We are Filipino if you please
We are Filipino if you don’t please
Embracing our roots and proud to reassure
Filipino blood flowing in our core
We are Filipino if you please
We are Filipino if you don’t please
Now we’re looking forward to a world tour
United we stand a cultural allure
Legends of the fall offs
Can we escape it?
Story so crazy they should tape it
Filipino twins getting paper
Play our instruments and keep it player
Teddy Yangco got us out in D.C.
Selling out box offices to party with we
You could hear the bass bumping all down the street
All Filipino band, all Filipino team
Look
All Filipino me, checking in the hotel
In the Palomino suite
Riding Rolls Royce, singing get like me
We’re our Filipino ancestors’ wildest dreams
That’s the nature of this bond
Testament of love where we both belong
We are Filipino baby and we’re putting on
For our cultural legacy
Represent it strong
We are Filipino if you don’t please
Embracing our roots and proud to reassure
Filipino blood flowing in our core
We are Filipino if you please
We are Filipino if you don’t please
Now we’re looking forward to a world tour
United we stand a cultural allure
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8. |
Looking Glass
02:56
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Look
What do you dream of when dreaming of free
What does cost and is it what you believed it to be
Who got exploited for their labor in creation of it
And who is raking all the profits off the making of it
Taking public credit for the work of others
Subordinate the artist while we running up the numbers
Would you rather be the puppet or the puppet master
Or the arsonist who burned the theater stage down faster
A selfish bastard
What do you dream when you dreaming of free
Is it chains around your neck or shackle less feet
Why do they call me such a savage when they savage to me
Why do they refer as a monkey when they dumber than me
Why do they exhibit my existence and call me a freak
All because I am a twin and my brother with me
Took us from the Philippines to perform for the world
Gave us diamond and pearls
This life of luxury
Look
What do you dream of when dreaming of free
Is it the kiss from a lover you ain’t seen in weeks
Is it choosing a dollar over family
Are you living in the moment as it’s happening
We been working for the man all day
Don’t know when we gon see our pay
Easy for you to pass judgment
Staring through the looking glass
Looking glass looking glass
We been working for the man all day
Tell me what’s normal anyway
Children laughing as they walking past
Staring through the looking glass
Looking glass looking glass
I am not your pet
I’m not your scapegoat
Not to be studied for you to take notes
I am human
I am a man
I am human
I am a man
Look
Autonomy’s in the plan
Tour the world with bro
And stack every chip we can
Betting on ourselves
And all the members of this band
Turn third world poverty into a couple hundred bands
A couple hundred bands?
Flip that then double back
Til we raking in
Big checks and fat money stacks
Shows so crazy audience keep coming back
If the critics say it’s weak
Then we show them why they whack
For publishing that bullshit
Preach tabernacle coming live from the pulpit
Conjoined twin brothers that you was cool with
Going out with a bang like a bullet
We been working for the man all day
Don’t know when we gon see our pay
Easy for you to pass judgment
Staring through the looking glass
Looking glass looking glass
We been working for the man all day
Tell me what’s normal anyway
Children laughing as they walking past
Staring through the looking glass
Looking glass looking glass
Aye Lu
What up Simplicio
They wouldn’t even know what it’s like mane
Haha for real
I hear you bro
But we gon show em what it’s like on this side of the looking glass
Yup!
Turn up on em!
One time!
Let’s go!
We Out!
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9. |
Get By
02:30
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Follow me come through
Know the way
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
One two
What would I be without you?
I’d traverse this Earth for you
Baby
Home’s where I’d rather be
But in our society
I gotta leave while I’m dreaming of you
Boat ride or a jet ride
Feel right or we get fly
Baby we’re just trying to get by
Get ours and we get mine
Boat ride or a jet ride
Feel right or we get fly
Baby we’re just trying to get by
Get ours and we get mine
I just want to stay
In this place forever
In this sacred space
Distance couldn’t sever
Keep it a hundred, yeah we banging like drum
I just want to put on for the city and the slums
Finna get it hot
If you let me in it, I’mma stunt
Yeah we really pop
And them pretty islands where we from
Riding the waves, say bye to the days
Where we taking less than we worth
Hi to the pay, smile in our faces
We make what we deserve
Yeah they need us now
They see us wow
Yeah we shifting the culture for good
Me and my brother here
Love and fear
We might just be in your hood
Like
Get busy
If you couldn’t get it, then try your best to get with me
In and out of cars, onto the next city
And every time we leave
Write a letter saying you miss me
What would I be without you?
I’d traverse this Earth for you
Baby
Home’s where I’d rather be
But in our society
I gotta leave while I’m dreaming of you
Boat ride or a jet ride
Feel right or we get fly
Baby we’re just trying to get by
Get ours and we get mine
Boat ride or a jet ride
Feel right or we get fly
Baby we’re just trying to get by
Get ours and we get mine
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10. |
Farewell
02:26
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This is where we say goodbye
Bye bye bye bye bye
This is where we say goodbye
Bye bye bye bye bye
We’ve been inseparable since birth
We are a gift, they call us cursed
Now I gotta see you in this hurst
I don’t know what makes me feel worse
The ridicule we took as little kids
Being exhibited like we did
Or having to live life apart
Please God mend my broken heart
I don’t want to live without you
I don’t want to live without you
Please don’t make me have to
I don’t want to live without you
Please don’t make me have to
A moment, a decision
Fate we have to face
Illness struck with a cruel embrace
Dr.’s of the West steady trying to find a cure
This is an experiment I doubt we’ll endure
Scalpel’s blade so cold on our backs
Tearing us apart yet the soul’s intact
In that fateful moment our lives were changed
Forever marked by decisions estranged
This is where we say goodbye
Bye bye bye bye bye
This is where we say goodbye
Bye bye bye bye bye
Farewell to the fans and the family
Farewell y’all, thank you for having me
Farewell to the stage and the lights
Farewell brother this is your time
Farewell to the fans and the family
Farewell y’all, thank you for having me
Farewell to the stage and the lights
Goodnight
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11. |
Outro
01:47
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Melvin Earl Clemson, South Carolina
Born during Rodney King LA Riots, Melvin Earl, LA native, began crafting songs since childhood piano lessons. He honed his skills in performance & songwriting, apprenticing at The Underground Studios in Inglewood, CA. Influenced by 1990s LA culture, West Coast Hip Hop, G Funk, his music blends soulful melody and groovy rhythms, offering a vintage vibe with timeless appeal. Stay tuned for more. ... more
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