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Lost in LA (LiLA)

from Good Grief by Sanyu Estelle

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An ode for my city

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You think you know my city
You think you know her name
Thought you'd land in Hollywood
But you in LA County
Land stewards the Tongva
And the Chumash upstream
That's when LA had water
Now the river concrete
First colonized by the Spaniards
They sent missionaries
Most mestizo or mulatto
Means Europe was rapin'
New Spain thought they could get in
In 1821
Called it Alta California
Land of the setting sun
British don't know how to share
Waged war with Mexico
Claimed California, America
And let her people go
The Chinese built that railroad
Then men came searching for gold
Used up they privilege and hope
Most then became drunkards

Lost
Lost, lost, lost, lost
In Los Angeles
Lost
Lost, lost, lost, lost
In Los Angeles
Lost
Lost, lost, lost, lost
In Los Angeles
Lost
Lost, lost, lost, lost
In Los Angeles
You came here to make it
You came here to make it
But will LA break you
But will LA break you

Wagoned women, children in
Misery loves company
More genocide and war
Then came the United States
Ratified questionable
All based upon enslavement
But then this slice of coast
Stated in 1850
In 1876
The railroad reached LA's shores
Little did we know
That would bring Kinney and Tabor roads
By the turn of the century
Anglo pop done struck black gold
Mad racist and trifling
They used up all they water resources
You seen that film Chinatown
That movie cishet as what
One thing it keeps real real
LA been corrupt as fuck
So now the land stewards less
The cops basic terrorists
Black, Brown locked in prisons
Classism segregates us

Lost
Lost, lost, lost, lost
In Los Angeles
Lost, lost, lost, lost
In Los Angeles
Lost, lost, lost, lost
In Los Angeles
Lost, lost, lost, lost
In Los Angeles

Tired of people walking 'round
Running they whole entire mouths
As if they hometown hold the crown
Talking my whole ass city down
What do you know about LA
You just moved here to make it
Claim we shallow and we sin
But, Bitch! Whose city you in
Tired of people walking 'round
Talking my whole city down
Running they whole entire mouths
As if they hometown hold the crown
Tired of people walking round
Talking my whole city down
Running they whole entire mouths
As if they hometown hold the crown

LiLA, please
LiLA, please
Please have some humility
LiLA, please
LiLA, please
Please have some humility

Have some fucking humility
And welcome to Los Angeles

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from Good Grief, released February 5, 2021
Track by Onegg Band

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Sanyu Estelle Los Angeles, California

Sanyu Estelle is a pigmented, womoonist, cissy, flexible asexual, travel-apt and fashion forward SSJW (Sarcastic Social Justice Warrior). Born, bred n' buttered in Los Angeles, Sanyu has long held the woowoo job of reading people and now she sings her reads too!

Genres: Rhythm & Pop, Dance, Electronic, Electro-Pop, Neo-Soul, Synth-Pop, Electro, Spoken Word
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