Lyrics: Stephanie Poetri/Dorothy Chan/Anna Kate Nelson
Music: Stephanie Poetri/Young Bin Park/Andy Toy
It’s my mother’s language
It’s my mother tongue
I don’t speak it perfect
And that makes me dumb
First to lose the accent
Last to get the joke
What’s the word for having nowhere to go
And its always in the back of my mind
Or on the tip of my tongue
Ooh
If it’s hard to read
It’s just poetry
Ooh
That’s just how I speak
Ini puisiku (translation: this is my poetry)
Dari dulu (translation: from long ago)
Aku tahu (translation: i knew)
That I sound nothing, nothing like you
Ooh
So they laugh at me
At my poetry
It’s my fathers’ lessons
From his fathers hurt
Try to disagree but I can’t find the words
It’s pain that’s in the silence
The tears that speak for me
What’s the word for all that’s lost in between
And it’s always in the back of my mind
Or on the tip of my tongue
Oh swear i was fluent when I was young
Now I can’t even write you a song
Ooh
If it’s hard to read
It’s just poetry
Ooh
That’s just how I speak
Ini puisiku (translation: this is my poetry)
Dari dulu (translation: from long ago)
Aku tahu (translation: i knew)
That I sound nothing, nothing like you
Ooh
So they laugh at me
At my poetry