@cstpimentel

Breathe, Pero Bisaya

Lamlam gyud ni nga kanta haha in the tune of Breathe by Lin Manuel Miranda (as played in In The Heights). Changed some lines to localize it.

I really want to make this play in my hometown haha! Maybe! 🤞🏼

BREATHE 🎙️

(In the Heights, Malaybalay)

[PIRAGUA GUY]

  • Kinabuhi nato kay lisod gyud panagsa
  • Porbida…

[SHEENA]

  • Breathe

[PIRAGUA GUY/SONNY/USNAVI/MAN]

  • But ayaw kabalaka basta na kay kwarta
  • Panagsa

[SHEENA]

  • This is my street

  • I smile at the faces I’ve known all my life

  • They regard me with pride

  • And everyone’s sweet

  • They say, “You’re going places"

  • So how can I say that, while I was away

  • I had so much to hide?

  • Hey guys, it’s me

  • The biggest disappointment you know

  • The kid couldn’t hack it

  • She’s back and she’s walkin’ real slow

  • Maayad ha, just breathe

[COMPANY]

  • Mao gyud nay problema’s bulok nga sistema
  • Porbida

[SHEENA]

  • Just breathe

[COMPANY]

  • But ayaw kabalaka basta na kay kwarta
  • Panagsa

[SHEENA (COMPANY)]

  • As the radio plays easy love drive boleros

  • I think of the days when this city was mine

  • I remember the praise

  • (Pagka bright ning bataa)

  • The neighborhood waved

  • And said, Sheena bira!

  • (Te sheena)

  • And you’re gonna be fine!”

  • (Pastilan)

  • And maybe it’s me

  • But it all seems like lifetimes ago 

  • (Bitaw ba)

  • So what do I say to these faces that I used to know?

  • “Hey, I’m home?”

[WOMAN]

  • Huy ba, Sheena

[SHEENA]

  • Hey

[COMPANY]

  • Taas na kay ka ug naabtan

[SHEENA]

  • They’re not worried about me

[COMPANY]

  • Sheena, yawards bai haska nang sikata

[SHEENA]

  • They are all counting on me to succeed

[COMPANY]

  • Deans List student pa gyud siya

[SHEENA (COMPANY)]

  • I am the one who made it out (Ah)

  • The one who always made the grade

  • But maybe I should have just stayed home 

  • (Hala Sheena)

  • When I was a child I stayed wide awake

  • Climbed to the highest place

  • Joined every pageant bai

  • Restless to climb

  • (Wow ha)

  • I got SK scholarship

  • Worked for chiz and alfred

  • Inig human ug college

  • How do I tell them why

  • (Relax lang)

  • I’m coming back home? (Ah)

  • With my eyes on the horizon

  • Just me and my Capitol G

  • Asking, “Gee, Sheena, what’ll you be?"

  • Straighten the spine, smile for the neighbors

  • Everything’s fine, everything’s cool

  • The standard reply, “Sa karon way trabaho”

  • Smile, wave goodbye and pray to the sky, oh, god

  • And what will my parents say?

[COMPANY]

  • Sheena

[SHEENA]

  • Can I go in there and say…

[COMPANY]

  • Sheena

[SHEENA]

  • “I know that I’m letting you down?”

[SHEENA]

  • Just breathe

🎵