No Mistake In Me

歌詞

Ko-ko-mi Before my mother called my name Before the world could measure my face I was there And I said: This life These eyes This skin This road Yeh— I chose the hands that raised me up The house with cracks beneath the door I chose the mouth that spoke my name And every hunger I came for I chose this color, rich as earth This crooked smile, this mother's tongue But they taught my mirror how to doubt Till I forgot the song I'd sung They said— Soften your tongue, hide your flame Wear their silence, forget your name But no two stars are born the same No river begs to be the rain What heaven writes, no fear can shame My path is mine— My name is flame! No mistake! (Oya-eh!) No mistake in me! Heaven made no copy! I am what I came to be! No mistake! (Ko-ko-mi!) No mistake in me! Why compare the ocean to the rain When both were sent to fill the sea? No— mistake— (No mistake!) No— mistake— (No mistake!) In— me! No— mistake— Yeh! Wo! No— mistake— I swallowed my mother's tongue at the gate Laughed when they twisted my name on their lips Smiled through rooms that praised my mask And called that fitting in They taught us sameness like a law As if one face could hold all light But your wound sings notes that mine cannot— Different stars, one sky, one night No mountain kneels for being tall No seed apologizes at all What heaven planted will not crawl I break the lie— I stand in full! Wo! Wo! Wo! Wo! Wo! Wo! Wo! Wo! Wo! Wo! Wo! Wo! Look— No wave repeats itself Look— Even twins do not dream the same Look— Even my scars do not match yours So why did we iron our souls flat And call that fitting in? Why did we punish holy difference And call it order? Ko-ko-mi Do not erase what heaven wrote Do not erase what heaven wrote Do not erase what heaven wrote No mistake! (Oya-eh!) No mistake in me! Heaven made no copy! I am what I came to be! No mistake! (Ko-ko-mi!) No mistake in me! Same sun, same blood, same sky— Yet each soul blooms differently! Every scar I carry has a mouth Every tear became a key What I begged the world to free me from Was the very door that chose me! No— mistake— (No mistake!) No— mistake— (No mistake!) In— me! No— mistake— No— mistake— Ko-ko-mi! Ase! Before they taught us mirrors We were whole Ko-ko-mi The face I feared Was the map I chose Ase Ase