Mother Tongue

作词 : Stephanie Poetri/Dorothy Chan/Anna Kate Nelson

作曲 : 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