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Y.A.L.A.

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YALA
YALA

Go low, go slow
Run like a polo
Up and down that pole like you're
A glow up a yoyo

Yea yea, YALA
Yea yea, YALA

Bombs go off when I enter the building

YALA
YALA
YALA
YALA

I dream some Contreau keep in my poncho
Run out like Castro
Blow up and get go

Pullin' a cinqco
Great like Canaveral
They love when I’ll go
Hard like I’m death row

Weigh in kilo
Lies a pillow
Don’t tell my tic-toe
Look how them buns go

Come come come
When we comin' some some
Yea a glass around
Yea I got me some pom pom
Fun fun nfor fun
Yea it’s getting undone
We’ve been here, we move on
It’s been so long since we hung

Go low, go slow
Run like a polo
A banana pole like you're
Climbing up a yoyo

Go low, go slow
Run like a polo
Up and down that pole like you're
A glow up a yoyo

YALA
YALA

Empty wowo
And I am understood
I get the lolo
Searching for me unfold

Bankin' offshore
Take a trip to Singapore
And it could end like
I’m doin' the animal

For the oracle
Don’t run the igno
That’s why I say shit
So they can explore

My baby, I am more
My mommy I adore
I take you stay and play
Can’t take it anymore

Come come come
When we comin some some
Yea a glass around
Yea I got me some pom pom
Fun fun fun
Yea it’s getting undone
We’ve been here, we move on
It’s been so long since we hung

Go low, go slow
Run like a polo
Up and down that pole like you're
A glow up a yoyo

Yea yea yea, go
Yea yea yea, go
Bombs go off when I enter the building

YALA
YALA
YALA

I’m really so YALA
You can take that photo
I’mma keep it wowo

YALA
YALA

Come come come
When we comin' some some
Yea a glass around
Yea I got me some pom pom
Fun fun fun
Yea it’s getting undone
We’ve been here, we move on
It’s been so long since we hung

YOLO?
I don’t even know anymore
What that even mean though
If you only live once why we keep doing the same shit?
Back home where I come from, we keep being born
Again and again and then again and again
That’s why they invented karma

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m_bianchini On Nov 02, 2013

YALA 
YALA

Go low, go slow
Run like a polo
Up and down that pole like you're    
A glow up a yoyo

Yea yea, YALA
Yea yea, YALA

Bombs go off when I enter the building

YALA 
YALA
YALA
YALA

I dream some Contreau keep in my poncho
Run out like Castro
Blow up and get go

Pullin' a cinqco
Great like Canaveral
They love when I’ll go
Hard like I’m death row

Weigh in kilo
Lies a pillow
Don’t tell my tic-toe
Look how them buns go

Come come come
When we comin' some some
Yea a glass around
Yea I got me some pom pom
Fun fun nfor fun
Yea it’s getting undone
We’ve been here, we move on
It’s been so long since we hung

Go low, go slow
Run like a polo
A banana pole like you're
Climbing up a yoyo

Go low, go slow
Run like a polo
Up and down that pole like you're    
A glow up a yoyo

YALA
YALA

Empty wowo
And I am understood
I get the lolo
Searching for me unfold

Bankin' offshore
Take a trip to Singapore
And it could end like
I’m doin' the animal

For the oracle
Don’t run the igno
That’s why I say shit
So they can explore

My baby, I am more
My mommy I adore
I take you stay and play
Can’t take it anymore

Come come come
When we comin some some
Yea a glass around
Yea I got me some pom pom
Fun fun fun
Yea it’s getting undone
We’ve been here, we move on
It’s been so long since we hung

Go low, go slow
Run like a polo
Up and down that pole like you're    
A glow up a yoyo

Yea yea yea, go
Yea yea yea, go
Bombs go off when I enter the building

YALA
YALA
YALA

I’m really so YALA
You can take that photo
I’mma keep it wowo

YALA
YALA

Come come come
When we comin' some some
Yea a glass around
Yea I got me some pom pom
Fun fun fun
Yea it’s getting undone
We’ve been here, we move on
It’s been so long since we hung

YOLO?
I don’t even know anymore
What that even mean though
If you only live once why we keep doing the same shit?
Back home where I come from, we keep being born 
Again and again and then again and again
That’s why they invented karma

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tennistennis

2013-12-30 01:46:44

m_bianchini

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2013-11-02 21:12:57

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by Collina

12y ago

Y.A.L.A M.I.A is a little overkill by acronym. However such a death is OK, as clearly YALA = You Always Live Again as espoused in her Sri Lankan roots . The last verse in particular being a great critique of those who quote the opposite YOLO (You Only Live Once) yet live with an apathy that suggests there were many others to come. But of course, then there's Nancy Sinatra who had her own theory and philosophy - YOLT or You Only Live Twice.

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by zebraflamingo

12y ago

I think its "Light up like Castro" ..not "Run out like Castro"

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by zebraflamingo 12y ago

Also its "up and down that pole" not "banana pole" lol

by v_a_l_i_sxoxo

7y ago

You only live once.

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