Gardenia from Three Sisters by Jessica Lá Rel

Where once sun, there will be wind
Bruised petals where you’re taken
Heal them with your medicine
Don’t you forget

To stain your mother’s linens
Trail your father’s children
Find the fragrance hidden
Right under your nose

Taken from your homeland
To a cool and dark land
Made to grow in soil
You never sought to know

Gardenia, oh
Ooh
Gardenia, yeah
Yeah

Bloom right where you’re made to stand
Take shelter into your hands
Make time to remember when
Don’t you forget

Fragrant like our spirit
Passed down by our kindred
Rare as if forbidden
Blossom in a fire

Sacred to the water
Calming to our fathers
All we need is light
To grow higher

Gardenia
(Blossom in a fire)
(Light will take you higher)
Gardenia
(Blossom in a fire)
(Light will take you higher)

Fragrant like our spirit
Passed down by our kindred
Rare as if forbidden
Blossom in a fire

Sacred to the water
Calming to our fathers
All we need is light
To grow us higher

Gardenia, yeah
(Blossom in a fire)
A Blossom
(Light will take you higher)
Higher – Gardenia, oh
(Blossom in a fire)
Oh, oh (Light will take you higher)
It’ll take you, take you, take you higher!
(Light will take you higher)
It’ll take you higher, higher (higher!)
Oh! Gardenia
(Blossom in a fire)
It’s a blossom in a fire – higher
(Higher)
Ooh – higher, ooh

• Jazz Fusion
• R&B
• R&B/Soul
• Soul
• neosoul
• Chicago