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Overboard (Prelude)
01:38
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2. |
From Yemaya, with Love
03:18
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Let me let me
Captivate your mind
Hit you with some knowledge
Don’t care about credentials
Don’t care if you went college
Can you treat me good?
Redistribute all them dollars?
Peace is what it I’m seeking
Do you practice what you preaching?
Theatrics you can leave it
I don’t care what you believe in
How do you lead in action?
Is you loaded? Is you packin’?
Yeah my name’s Nina
You can bet I’m ‘bout it
I bust back
Baby don’t you doubt it
Don’t you doubt it
Indigo’s my spirit
Truth lives within it
Dripping with
Divinity
Don’t question
Just follow me
I could never stray you
Don’t wanna delay you
Just tell me all your dreams
Watch how they come true
Watch how they come true
Let me
Captivate your mind
Hit you with some knowledge
Don’t care about credentials
Don’t care if you went to college
All you have is time
You’re the Rolex you’re the rhyme
To get to know yourself
And love it’s the real wealth
Trust that you’re as divine
As what everyone says is outside of you
Celebrity
Politician
And programming
Don’t do shit for us but
Control our will
Everyone dies but not everyone lives
If you can’t see me do I even exist
On your tv screen, phone or tablet
Searching for meaning but you won’t find it
No you won’t find it
No you won’t find me
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3. |
Toe the Line
03:04
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I can take it there if you wanna go
I don't toe the lines
I cross them you should know
Do I come on to you eager to please?
Baby I'm twenty-something
Tryna be free
(eh eh)
I can take you there if you want the snow
Show you the other side
My divine feminine so cold (ooh)
Honey I hope that you are eager to learn
We can role reverse
Do I make you yearn? (huh)
It's all fun and games
Til it's you getting played
Don’t do fall out boy
Don’t you cause delay (no)
I'd rather disengage
Than have to chase you (dun know)
I have no time (eh eh)
I need this paper (move!)
I can take it there if you wanna go
I don't toe the lines
I cross them you should know
Do I come on to you that strongly? (really?)
You can just say if you don't want me
Since you never had me
You could never leave
Mmm
I am a healer
But I don't have patience (doctor Nina)
My emotional labor's
Gonna cost the basics (pay up)
Unless you're giving me
Reciprocity (oh no?)
Don't waste my time (boy bye!)
With your mixed messages
I can take it there if you wanna go
I don't toe the lines
I cross them you should know
Do I come on to you eager to please?
Baby I'm twenty-something
Tryna be free
It’s sunshine it’s rain
I bring pain
i bring pleasure
Not on your time
At my leisure
It’s my life
Don’t you forget her
I can take it there if you wanna go
I don't toe the lines
I cross them you should know
Do I come on to you eager to please?
Baby I'm twenty-something
Tryna be free
Be free
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4. |
Shipwrecked (Interlude)
02:42
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Victim, rescuer, persecutor
Wash, rinse, repeat
Which role do you reenact
Out of comfort, out of ease
How do we free ourselves
From this cycle
When we’re all damaged
Panicked, projecting answers
Onto whoever’s standing
Next to us
How do we free ourselves
And not abandon love
Without isolating
And staying stuck
How do we free ourselves
From should’ve’s and would’ve’s
That confine us to versions
Of the past or future us
How do I️ free myself
From the affliction inside me
When me and you at “we”
Was the only thing to ever satisfy me
Even when I couldn’t satisfy me
Guess I have to try to satisfy me
And calm the demons that whisper
To me, You’re unworthy
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When in doubt
Sister call yo mama
When in doubt
Sister call your friend
You ain't got to face the storm alone
You ain't got to pretend
When in doubt
Sister call yo mama
When in doubt
Sister call your friend
You ain't got to face the storm alone
You ain't got to pretend
Tell me you recognize these stones
I'm tryna turn them all over
But I don’t recognize my own strength
Can I borrow a shoulder
Society, men
Jobs
Supply and demand
Getting lost in the sauce now
Do I sink or do I swim?
When in doubt
Sister call yo mama
When in doubt
Sister call your friend
You ain't got to face the storm alone
You ain't got to pretend
When in doubt
Sister call yo mama
When in doubt
Sister call your friend
You ain't got to face the storm alone
You ain't got to pretend
I've been down that road before
I know all those doors
You can tell me anything sis ‘cause
In the struggle what's mine is yours
Society, men
No Jobs
Supply and demand
Shots fired, no justice
Can I lend you a hand
Remember remember (Remember)
We’ve lived this before
Remember remember (Remember)
The gifts to break the curse are yours
When in doubt
Sister call yo mama
When in doubt
Sister call your friend
You ain't got to face the storm alone
You ain’t got to pretend
When in doubt
Sister call yo mama
When in doubt
Sister call your friend
You ain't got to face the storm alone
You ain't got to defend
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Push
03:14
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I need to see you
Can I feed your
Bare bones
Put your birthday suit on
When you're alone
Think of me when your heart is on
(Break down my walls
I wanna see you with your natural on
Come inside
I can serve it any way you like
Push me
Touch me
Tease me
Feel me
I need your hot hands
Gripping on my body)
Take your time
Cause ya can't press rewind
But you can press my buttons baby
Fair warning you might go crazy
(I can feed your appetite
Versatile, and I keep it tight
Drown inside me it's alright
After rebirth I give life )
(Don’t care to tease you )
I wanna seize you
(Can I free your )
Bare bones
Put your birthday suit on
When you're alone
Pull me up on your telephone
(Break down my walls
I wanna see you with your natural on
Come inside
You can do me any way you like )
Push me
Touch me
Tease me
Feel me
Hold me
Know me
Your hands
On my body
*harmonizes*
(Bare bones
Put your birthday suit on
When you're alone
Think of me when your heart is on
Break down my walls
(I wanna see you with your natural on )
Come inside
I can serve anything you like
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7. |
Osmosis (Outerlude)
01:15
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I’m drowning in desire
Pulled asunder
Oozing obsession
Left to wonder
Submerged somehow, I like it here
Adept to it, the depth of it
Blinding so I can’t see
But I learn to breathe
Deeper
Deeper
To just be
Metamorphosing
Eyes closed tight
Falling into your sea
Unbeknownst to me
Surrounded by corals, teals, evergreen
Is this osmosis?
How to take it slow
When the rush of each wave
Electric currents between us
Greenlight go?
You the sea
And I the ocean
Your mouth opens to me
Stretching and becoming
vastly
More cognizant
Whole, complete
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8. |
Ocean
01:58
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I feel you wanna get in my ocean
I feel you wanna dive deep and float in
I feel you wanna get in be open
You know, I know
I feel you wanna get in my ocean (like a Cancer)
Get deep and own it (like a Scorpio)
Wanna lay down and romance (like a Pisces)
You know, I know
We can play pretend
While I water-bend (come close)
You don’t have to
Run from emotion (no)
I feel you wanna get in my ocean
No holding noses
I see you wanna ride this wave, babe
You know, I know
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NINA RIVERA Washington, D.C.
Human
Producer
Performer
Singer-Songwriter
Multi-
Instrumentalist
From New York, raised in Florida, and based in Washington D.C., Nina is known for singing playfully provocative and wistful lyrics over atypical and textured music
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