Soul

by Ochuka

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1.
Black Rose 02:31
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My soul wheel is grinding slowly How could I tell the world my story? Sun, follow the river, you'll find me Where stars aren't afraid to die in the East The loved ones we missed When the flowers bled, we withered with grief We weathered while time faded away "Mama, why was papa so grey?" Blue white polo shirt, my old man slept forever away left my body in pain! Chased my heart through his dreams April fodder, the grass was greener with May rains (damn) Tiny seeds we buried our emptiness in the soil While our pain grow late bloomers, longing for winds to carry our soul home Far District Vibe with me Razroblade salvation, I never sold my soul though the journey was bitter and cold! Death after death Scriptures ruffle when mama switch the lights out at night The graceful moon knows the sad letters I write I met a brother He put my poems on the mic She was kinder She knew the dark rooms & traumas I hide I don't pour henny Or set flames on the leaves Or even explode angel dust to climb stairways to the skies So when the rain dropped on the casket, we lowered my baby down I was like, child of the earth, from dust to dust, homesick souls always find their way back home Now am separated a thousand miles from my child i turn my sorrows into crayons i bless her soul with the gold of dawn On these lonely roads i found a way to remember home My soul hangs heavy When the call home goes, tuuut, dial tone For straight years her love cured the defects I had before If she finally goes I'd be sad but happy I had love of my own Little girl of mine A full diary of sonnets my poems sound like elegies When mama prays i hope she forgives me, i couldn't take it no more Theatre of scars My body knows little life than my soul growing red, black rose Sam Kelly, Laura & Jay Frank Billy, Walter & Glory Two sides of the cassette Memories when they be rewinding my song Memories when they be rewinding my song And I hope, I'm as brave as my mother I've not Even called my family About the life that's bout to find me home
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Hard To Describe It 03:30
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Track - Hard To Describe It (Dear God after this I am sure itakuwa the last time) Don't let me die with my soul in the air Don't let me die with nobody in here (×2) Question: How can there be no God? I've used graphite to preserve my soul Pain don't measure my faith Twice I died on that hospital table I had a sick body to blame The future could be better tomorrow not, yesterday Standing before the mirror I asked you Soul, "What pain are you trynna erase?" What's pain for a body near death? What's the gain, if you loose your soul? What's the range? Shotgun, blades on the surgery tray The doctors trynna see how my universe is made Tell grandma I hear her voice Tell mama, my faith isn't destroyed Tell my flower her love brings me joy Tell Helena, am the ashes rising from Troy Tell the atoms in my body am killing death I have no sin to forgive Cosmo pushing needle on the veins Mellow & slow candy Sunday, I can still see papa dusting the gramophone The pen grows sicker, don't get the antidote At night my body wails At times i wish i knew how to pray Fold my pen on the knees, angels mourn for days All these scars can only kill my flesh I dance tender there's love in the graveyard why do we love when they all gone? I lodge this call my soul is my truth Now home is chill and empty Instead of dinner and laughter The walls hang memories, we're glued "Mama, where do we go when we die?" Question unanswered Bella went, grandpa left the empty canvas Zero seven one four... I wanna call home But I hate to hear her voice break Sribbles embedded on my prescription I need a hug cause my heart is broken and old Only for love do you embrace a lonely soul Only for love do we become many in one (Uh uh) Highly favoured I'm fly and flavoured I was offbeat with the abstracts Cures, hold my pen against the creeds Fam checking on me Writing auto on my bandaged plaster Hard to describe how we heal even though the wounds don't dry the wolves still cry the wool still white Why do we not die? When depression rocks our mental inside? Ninakutaja kila song Ndio ni-tu lize nafsi yangu, kila prose kila verse iko blue Nikitizama juu, ninajiuliza why uuu Nikitazama juu, ninajua it's all good Don't let me die with my soul in the air Don't let me die with nobody in here (×2)
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Stay Close 04:58
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Yo nimekungoja for long Nafeel nostalgia ukiwa mbali na home Pain yangu imegrow Mind yangu messy thoughts Still birth, sina idea vile nitaitoa kwa roho Rain ikiflow Straight up, ile imani unaletanga ukiwa around Uko full of so much soul Pindi nikiplug mixer na cable Beat iko draft na already uko charged kufanya wino iglow Rekodi hijafade out Soul yangu ndio imegather dust, sioni way out Coffee inataste, funny now Vita unapigana ndio hunivunja nafsi, crowned Na rings za thorns Ulitoka na promise ya kurudi after two days Wakitaka ulimi una bruises ni yangu nikitunga dua lako everyday Tumekumiss bro, mom na sis kila siku wanapray Na me kwa mixer emotions raw ndio ninaspray Brain yangu iko foggy, so grey Drained nikikaa kwa lobby, thoughts zangu far away Helpless na sorry juu siezitake away pain We kusema tukihema kwa mic hatubreathe tunadetonate Sina hewa cavity, ni radio waste na story sad my dear friend Nascotch rhymebook na melody nisoothe away the pain Niko slow kwa booth, nableed blues kila record play Hio call ikihung, words ulisema ziko na me for many days "Bro, najua ni one life ingawa si hutestiwa na different deaths." Mistari ziko hazard kwa pace Ninaumwa though ikibidi ninakubless na God's grace Nilifeel inspired Wudz kuniandikia Silent Pen Lyrics is God written Uliignite creation Ukainspire watu wengi, God of the Pen Ulikuwa pillar of faith Ukaniinua zile enzi, za dark days Nafaa nifeel broken juu ya vile nimebleed kwa hii page Lakini ntashed tears ka heaven inacover roses na umande Tukifanya Cures, niliamini siko ready kusoma Eulogy yako yet Baado future hutubless na different odds, different bets Na siku madoc wanakupea hii text Jua ninakuenzi kila siku every day |Hook| Daddy I see flowers But what's rain without a little sunshine Brother I write thee thy verse Even when am on the road I still got you in my mind Naido for the youngkies Mistari Razor, vile si hutumia pen kubleed Vile si hu-star-gaze tukitumia mic kubreathe Karibu ujump off, dunia ikikutenga na loneliness Soul yako iko rough edge Juu ikiandikwa soul imemwagwa kwa page Naido for the boombap Naido for the, funky sound, mic ni ya chuma so barstola inaangusha crowds Naido for the boostrap Naido for the, battling rounds, mind detour trapped kwa maisha ya kimwani ghetto Naido for the pen Naido for the mental shackles na chains Naido for the days Pen yangu IV, Naido for, kila drop ya darkness juu ya ink Naido for the game Naido for the pain Ndio tukifungua mdomo tunabreathe ndani ya casket Naido for the grace Imani iko kwa soul ndio ilinicarry through the days Naido for the tape Mziki ziufanya chest scan iko very grey Naido for the love Sio tu za macho pale garden Naido for ma soldiers Wenye wanabump track zangu kila day Wanaotumia track zangu kujifariji Wasiodhani tunaandika for the sake Wanaoniongeza rangi Wanaotusemea dua njema, ingawa tuko mbali Naido for my loved ones Naido for the blackbird Mziki ni wa nani juu saa hii pete nimefinger? Sidu for the cast Na ikikuguza jua theatre baado kuna scars Naido for my mama Nakuwekea soul kwa stanza juu ya kinanda Naido kwa beat ya Wudz, Truth au hata 9th Wonder Naido for the friends Tuliocheza nao mtaani, wengine tukakutania njiani Naido for the rain for the dust Walioenda kabla tujafika bei Kabla ndoto za kungoja better days Ka singepitia maisha haya sidhani ujanja ungenipeleka anywhere Safari sio kifo Waliokosa kutumaini na simango Naido for the soul Aliyenipa hope nipohitaji msaada Naido for the sun for the moon, for the stars Naido for the jazz for zile blues si hufeel kwa hizi track Naido for the streets Siku moja tukitelevise, revolution itakuwa plugged!
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Tomorrow (To Whom It May Concern) 03:13
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Mom ulikaa kwa ward, for so long ukingoja dua za God Waliokuja kuona wenzao wametolewa kwa ward We baado uko, "Amazing Grace, how sweet thy sound!" Thoughts come flooding How could you be so strong? 80 going 90, ninakufeel mami juu ya tabu umeona before Years ka kinde, huwa hinikalii so long Ingawa by then, sikufeel sana weight ya dunia kwa soul Maisha blind date Return to sender kesho sijui ikoje Dunga Beach, Kanya you were beautiful Runway kwa pulpit Alaf Yimbo Far East Tunakulaza, machozi tukatokwa mami Hii ni ya kila soul ninawagota kwa scroll They say Truth Reigns Above But Only Love Exist Eternally I told mama I want out Cause tomorrow was harder to face Cause even bodies have limits of stretch At times when the rains was bursting through the dark clouds I was screaming my pain The same tomorrow is my only hope Showed me courage to live Held me closer to dream Nurses saw my piece on the paper, said it must be harder to breathe Said there's beauty in sharing the griefs Long goodbyes, so many losses out here Clinic at the waiting bay I fidget a mumble prayer Cause everyday I war with tenses, right now, maybe tomorrow, not yesterday For the moments I weep The phone vibrate, "Are you okay ma G?" With every breath I'm still making love to the universe And after I kill this verse They'll write a metaphor, my greatest story unheard Man, I just keep pushing I don't know what tomorrow will bring Richard told me the poems are finally free Ken wrote a novella with a memory of me Bantou bumps my tracks through the clouds Habre calls Gruff knows My pen undisputed George wrote, for me I cried ruthless For you Rodger Romi, I remember my blue days Small bro, we won't cry no more Truth I said I'll write my soul on your piano I'm fighting tears that roll I'm writing for Jadudi, hold on buddy be strong Past iko ndani ya future So nikiscribe najua itakuguza Shukran Truth, beat imeinspire my soul So nikicry, jua nafsi yangu labda inaumwa Niko mwani booth To Whom It May Concern, hio ilikuwa just a dejavu After Cures Spook alisema, "Bro, this is rare you!" I was supposed to say am running away from the grim reaper My muse ill, straight from a dying liver When my soul flee Let my record play, finally the poem is free
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Praything 03:36
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Hydroplaned in November A few days later fam was donning black without a member I know the pain in your bones I know belts didn't lower her soul Even though the wreaths laid, on the graveyard the last I held my baby we sang in the lonely park She talked gibberish, poetry, her toothless smile mend my broken soul So beautiful one that liven my dreams Put the vinyl on a cue There's joy in these tears Even though My body act like an old TV box Roaches everywhere Ma, they crawling, my Venus closing the fly trap Before crutches, I wrote this verse on a wheelchair Rowing on a boat to India I overused hope as my outfit Jupiter covered in foggy weather I found love in Pluto They can read about our version of events Waking up to eyes welling, who knows? How their story goes? Almost got the respirator, put off Nearly decimated my body in war Even threw my cautions to the winds Being in the moment with my drifts We even exchanged arteries with strange birds that deliver news about death Turned our tweets to go fund on our behalf Pain is such an ugly love takes but doesn't give Straight from dying stars A Gemini lightwarrior, using his wounds to see through the tunnel street protests standing on the bad side of the gun's barrel Sweet architect Come heal our soul We broken, wheezing inside the city ambulance Bless me god, am a child of my own That's when heavens see blood on the leaves So many have heavy heads crushing their shoulders I lost some of my best soldiers Used drips to feed my hungry dreams When the rains pour i refused death, a reason for my grave to flatten like old tyres The car came crushing Planets align to watch the universe reversing atoms for atoms god for god death for death and life for caveat My hometown floats on the hyacinths Planted my soul on the veins in the skies I saw my love through the dreams I saw my live through the dreams [Praything] I don't know why songs about you Always turn into hymns In dissolution, I found beauty Colours that I have never seen In dissolution, I found beauty How the hell have you been?
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Empty Canvas 03:28
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Time, Heals all wounds Wounds turn to scars And soul grows too blue Buttons ready blow the fuse Couple of pins, Half of bodies in the pit Raffle ticks on the wood Perfect fate, pictures on walls No glues, Near cross pedestals, left hopes bruised Shoplifting pain Every time iron sharpens rails for the train Heads, no tails Cupcakes, black rice, long grain State sponsored death, Is strange, Chemo, neoplasms, still puzzle the meds We cross bridges When we get there, no cure for sure Bodies filled fi lead Guns, no roses, concrete flames Outcasts, walking crosses, copy paste Trend contest, socio political blackmail Baby showers in crowded graves Body hibiscus, white tees, ketchup memories Flow like Nile through warfields From the source till we empty like the seas Nuke seeds buried in secret tweets Is like Flowers, no seeds Pearls, without beads Dust, diamonds for chains MDGs, MP3s, paying dues to balance the trades Empty streets, zombies hooked on clockset So before the body detonates A 100 years trapped in the grey Black soot, industrial grace Grow up with cokes bursting fissures Held love on crutch, body seizured War, crawl, walk, blow before quiet storms Faith, no narrative Faint, lines of glory Bars too clinical, no purgery Body for garbage, and death is some mockery Sapiopithecus, skeletons hang on upholstery Brain dead but your libido is juicy Ocean blue, crabs cuisine, poetry for groupies Hycinths, young homies died fishy Tossed they bullet riddled metaphors in the lake Vox pop, vixen ballots, funeral presidents Financial debris Carpets fuel over hoods, fear for foreign exchange I'm still joy, ex pain Unfinished razors, I'm still tailor made Coins fi change, tenders to the coronary I'm still made of God's grace I'm still tender, the woman's flower on this healing page My skin is deep, And even though we well and bleed One day even we shall be saved Verses spin, crotchet colours paint Skies hang no masquerade Iris tattoos, I feel love when I pen Happiest pursuits, green grass fi the rains we fetch Touch souls, heal they pain when we sketch
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Fireflies 03:28
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You hear that? That's the sound of my soul in abandoned playgrounds Old seesaws swinging back Like broken rungs on the ladder rusty nails with the colours of golden sunset, caskets You hear that? Ribs cracking The rose that Pac said grows through the concrete, flowering my people are bleeding Can't speak or rhyme for nobody I heal through these cuts of mine, homie When I can't fill the voids bad weeds growing in rich soils scans are getting greyer by days Poetry's eulogy caged between letters of a telegram mind over matter Higher plane, hijacking my soul like a telepath cooked up inside like we paged with molten lava body I've fought against you and now I can't no more body I've... Tyre scratch on asphalt Pariah with scars, when is it right for the wolf to stop mourning? when the moon undresses its mystery stem cells, the genre is trapped, I feel like am about to blaspheme body I set you free piston push break pads, the clocks stage a cast You see that? That's the graph of life slowing down The ECG gets noisy and nurses panic in the unit hearts aren't good at goodbyes, they lousy Body they walked you on holy water even passed you through fire, you turned into bricks Herbal journal facing pyramids with my fingers on ancient papyrus reeds But fire I couldn't put you out countless times they hang stethoscopes to hear my universe choke left my genes ripped black white, I sat below the piano, The threads of divine gears grind slowly stripes on the dynamo dying to dream inside me are islands of bliss black birds sucking on my juice But every sad movie has a ratchet scene of a silent falsetto when the violins breathe Then soils are thrown back to the weeds |Tinashe Sampled| Oh, you gotta Oh, you gotta Oh, you gotta calm down Fires and flames are in your eyes I wish that I didn't burn so much Fires and flames are in your eyes and I wish that I could put you out and Cool you while you stay the night Cool you while you stay the night with me
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Carry Me Home 05:29
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Cry me a river When they said I had a dying liver Imagine termites feasting your timber? Project the murals on me Every time I call home, somebody dying on me That's a quote from Jay In childhood rain we played Never worried bout nothing, we prayed Stay close to the phone Just in case my number calls Truth told me put your soul in this song See I have been dead but breathing Sirens Ambulance sound like gunshots when they pull the trigger Straight from my heart, my soul been bleeding My prime year freshman, in college Season one premiere postcard, my body held hostage I watch fate filter through my eyes like dying granules of dust Sometimes I wonder if am even alive Take One: My scars dedicate my whole life to melancholia Fought along some of the bravest soldiers We insisted on life Even at the brink of an organ failure I climb my hometown plateau i reminisce Behind grandma's house I'm covered in wild perfumes of graveyard flowers RIP my loved ones, we miss yo Take Two: I wore grief as my attire I'm speaking déjà vu People live People breathe People work People die, that's life hard wire I been through hell, Through snow, fire and desert rain Take Three: They open casket doors on the ground But skies are still grey and blue Even if I broke ma jaw, i still took it through the wire The crayon book that my daughter draws The dice was rolled I felt beautiful when they said I look like my grandpa The shelf was full of every other drug Remained strong even though there's no cure My body was on the ICU fighting it Tubes dripping with food and medicine Before I feared how the story goes Balloons hanging on the wall friends and family prayers written on the sticker notes That's how you budget at crossroads when you ain't got nothing more You stare at the ceilings Your mind is crowded with mystery Since day one you a survivor, Yeah you know the drill! My sweet memories play inside the poodle I could've died, who knows? Reports come, results unfavorable I never even knew my name when my hair fell off I went back home with a telegram on my sleeve "Don't let me die with my soul in the air." Just promise you'll be by my side Love me till we all die I told mama am getting tired to live But hope is such a stubborn seed In my heart I know I buried myself in twenty fifteen Some nights were close When I cried till the roof came down, my uncle weeps "We are here for you, buddy." Love is deeper than home Deeper than pain that time never heals Deeper than wounds that people never see First time I felt brave, Was when I wrote, "Just breathe." Sending distress signal from a really bad place I'm grateful for all the help they gave We Won! When rains fell I refused my grave to flatten My wound is a river I carry miracles that breathe I seen God through the PET Scan strips What's your emergency? Mine been body fighting against a strange disease Fight till my fate deplete Sometimes we save ourselves from within I wrote my eulogy left it out at the prints I find myself writing trauma instead of good old poems Common said, "Know thyself as a code of honour Spread good magic with my prowess I been worse Flooded with memories Earth soaked in crying heavens Faith is speaking to me through the dark Even with defeated spirits I been patched People showing me love to weather the storm Mama I hear your songs Grandma welcomes me home Daughter, I love you Even though my life be hanging on the rope One day, love will carry you home True friends holding me close I'm speaking for my broken people All my surviving peeps Those that wait for, "Hey, I see you." Hanging hope by the public payphone All my people smiling in the streets When chips go down, they die inside Women broken, men that grieve Children hopeless, Generations depressed by raging machines And if you lost on a lonely road, away from home Came through for me, this is your song! (Talking) Do not surrender your grief so quickly. Let it cut more deeply. Let it ferment and season to be human made of divine ingredients. Something is missing in my heart, tonight, that has made my eyes so soft and my voice so tender and my need of self so absolutely clear. Love is our inversion. It turns broken upside down, shreds our truths and purifies our soul out. Heal your soul. Heal your heart. Heal your mind.
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Thug Snow 02:44
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Ilikua ngumu kuchoose Mahangaiko ni mahangaiko So beti nimeweka voodoo Mwili wangu unanusurika mbaya sumu Jinamizi kuniwacha nimebaki fuvu Nitizame wapi Wakati kila mmoja ana vita vya kustahimili Mwezi juzi Ikazidi mbaya nimejilaza chini Na hivo ndo imekuwa yangu hadithi Mtandao wapo wengi, unapowahitaji wamekuasi Haina noma, yote mitihani Nimekwenda zangu bush kwa bibi Hakuna siku amenikimbia mimi Ilikua sio rahisi Tafakari unazo, lakini kuziandika hauna ujasiri Mtaani wanangoja nduru kwa umbali Taarifa zinihusu kwenda zangu mbali Jamii inaakisi mitazamo duniduni Hope baado kali makeke zimerudi Na huwa sina uzito wa rap na lafudhi Ndio maana Kaseti nimetoa zijanipa hundi Kwa daftari napanga hisia zangu ndio niwezejifariji na pia niongee na nafsi za watu wana taabu mbalimbali Na pia wanaonipa msukumo, jumbe za, "Hali gani?" Aliyenipa rekodi Kabla hapakuwa na wa kuniamini Masela na madaktari Walionichangia nilipohitaji tumaini Walionitia imani Waliozinunua zangu kaseti Kuna siku kadhaa sijui pa kugeukia shida zangu Tena zikawa sio rahisi Kama kutopatikana siku njema Ambayo roho haifi kwa vidonda sugu Na afya inaimarika kwa matibabu Ni upande mwingine wa mbalamwezi Kinachojiri huwa hatuna ufahamu So nimegeuza simu booth Ninakupea ikiwa raw, hapa kaz tu Nibarikiwe na roho isiyotishika, nisipoteze nuru yangu
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Luotopia 02:41
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|Verse 1| Ka yandisomo Asumbi kanabiro neni nyadundo nyagi Martha Yiedhi gowo nam chumbi Bando golo wino, atudo wechi sud batha Minwa, deyena gi kayuochi Recommended tick nyaka nam giyie kodi! Losie koda jaber nyiri Sungna hera jaber thum winji Kuodhie koda nim koda e chuny pii Hellena wang'e dongo Nyathi Nyakach biggie smalls, benga meets hip hop Imiyo wiya ng'ado mafuta kuskus Adila oyoko chunya hera opoto kuoma duh Mor alenya onyong'o dega otoya toch ndadhu Makie simba, skypna Myspace Facebook Pachi chando wiya, bayie koda ka sikul okum Samigoyo thumbi to pap otimo buru jowuoyi goyo nduru Nyiri go sigalagala, nyithindo miel otiap tupu |Verse 2| Fallie koda, nyong'ie mos otoya ka pany mirege njugu Jaber osomo obaro buk Dwe rienyni odiechieng' katotieno igweloni puch Jaber wang'e otimo luoch Ka samionge to chunya gado pii Silili ochueyi like a masterpiece Ndikna barua abii waradi Wuok Tich Chunye muol mor kich Pachi changa samawinjo lit Makie lweta airline Otonglo nyaka loka Swiss Humbi okalo rumbi Piny omoko tinde idwaro mana dugi Hera remo kik ng'ato wuondi Dagie koda, wager legacies ok udi Ka sama piny otimo dudi Tilemona imula mos kendiketa buti Hera choke mbese Dwar oketa amanyo dede Chieng' natwe ni leso Chieng' naboyi gi designer, kaduogo dala ang'ich welo Chieng' iting'na nyinga malo Sigana marahumo maji osieko dhialo Chieng' ikom kodha Chieng' imiya hapi kiloso hera
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Requiem I 03:33
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Every time I pick the pen, To write these hidden points of destiny Feels like, I'm scooping my soul, throw to the pit Just like The velvet that covered your box I'm coming home Children of fate, I been alone Sad songs Only, things I know It's heavy when the road is thrown under the bus But when we bleed, we don't heal our guts They showed me the spade with some dirt I watched my soul Drop on your box Like memory granules dust Is like, When imperative clocks choke Everything resembles a rose Every time I die Feels like I been here before Black tinted windows Ambulance turned into hearses, we mourned And when the world falls asleep That's when I dream with my eyes closed I see your beautiful face in the bubble I arrange my sad thoughts into petals Just so I can feel your blossom Journey be my soul I ain't got no place to go B, hear my soul That call destroyed my soul Is like My heart hanged on the payphone booth The sky suddenly turned blue B, I just bought new pink sticker notes Left my name on your diary, how do I even mourn? I felt lost Through your pain, I found home Sometimes heaven is below the skies Sometimes maybe death will too die They unhooked the IV on your wrist, and we all died Purple balloons in your room, they all died Ma even brought plastic flowers cause they don't die We all question death, but life why? I held the teddy bear you left, and we all cried Sometimes I think about the meaning of theses fights A year later, They found death in my liver Cut through my broken dreams like a razor You left me twice your universe in our daughter And now my life is through the needle Ah stargazer Violins pluck my pain, first fiddle Thinking bout When I almost left her in this cold world Daddy I've only seen you in my dreams I lost count when angels refused to take me Requiem to my grief I'm pace-making my sleeve For nights I almost dug a hole on my wrist I saw the way it ate through your body They gave you blood, it fed on you hungrily When the clocks knock All I hear are your sorrows I get scared, cause today might be the day I fall off Withered rose My soul grows on rocks My death is turning old, soon it might die You showed me your soul Like Isis putting back Set to life Never wanted her to draw life with broken crayons Never wanted her to grow Knowing her father died of suicide Never wanted her to know I couldn't be a soul provider It's the necklace that you left, that I hang on to I'm sorry for these sad songs, I reminisce I struggle to breathe Your handwriting laid lazy on the diary, it reads: After I am gone, Promise to be love through the people you meet When it rains I feel like That's how heaven bleeds The aura of loved ones raining on me Heal the people you love Love the people you heal When we lowered you down, my world crushed My heartbeat went flat on the screen Mama cried, my revolutions are unplugged Technology rules our lives I hope one day this record will carry you through the night Burning candles Requiem to my mass Through a life of pain and havoc One day we'll find joy, even though we broken now
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Requiem II 05:00
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My midnights come to life at noons Would you still love me if any day I could be boxed inside the wood? I ain't know how to pray, so I scribble another pain on my rhyne book I write till I hear angels griot on the roof So many poems still stuck in a body I knew Strange how time didn't heal my wounds Scholar from my mama's womb Warrior since grandma survived with us Am I self imprisoned With these bars, no flashy tracks on billboard? Friends don't stay long, When they realize you stuck, they go This world is not our home I wonder where we all go When the chips are down? But when I put pen to the paper I heal once more How could I know When I spill my soul to scribe and bleed in sorrow I'm broken Faithless, horrified and terrified of the process What's the meaning of these deaths I talk of everyday? My scars play orchestra Before am gone, am writing y'all this letter I seal this verse with some holy temper Peel graphite out of pencils call me woodpecker Old scars, new wounds The clocks rewind Time after time I use pain as an instrument I walk on broken escalators of my DNA I walk by faith And never by sight They gave me time So am in the pen reversing errors with unmatched grace And though the future goes astray With every thought of what comes next Press play Rewind this record when you feeling grey I died when the reports came I rose rivaling battles, warrior my progeny Is like A blot on my page Grams told me use faith as your body armor Arsonist versus blacksmith Punching braille through my blind days with a fist of fire My body is a flesh but my mind is made of steel Iron sharpens iron, parables mixed with ironies I can't forget my boat rowing through rivers of death I couldn't forget That they almost unplugged my oxygen When the screen went flat, mama panicked in pain One day This song will be a pool of memory I'll never take the poet to the grave with me! Is like Everyday is a stretch through the valley of death I ain't afraid, no Through the wire my jaw drop with sirens The cramping woman's belly The bursting veins of the universe in grim shape Gentle stars died on my behalf Fuck moments of glory, I shine through the dark I'm sorry ma I had to curse Cause days I ain't got my plus one My poems motion, first I knew it was over Used my tragedies to paint on the canvass Flowers blossom, who am I Not to turn my sorrows divine? Through the journey we all fell Every metaphor I ever wrote had a seed of faith in them For every mountain put on my feet, I stood on When I feel heavy, I longed for a studio Too broke to even speak through my soul Bleeder's digest, Rhyme manifest bigger than outerspace Lyric is God written through time, void and space This a song you play when you feeling down Worn out, when you cry unheard in a world full of crowds It's easier to loose yourself in pain Easier to raise fingers to blame We bring ourselves down and don't stand together Is all safe until is you in the bad weather It's easier to find love in strangers The pen cries but it's me trynna sound like a cure In misery and loneliness, some get lost forever Maybe what doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger Anxiety, depression, bipolar Don't die in shame if this song brings you closer Nearer, balance holds the universe in order Nearer, so many questions I never found they answers Ma I never blamed you for how things went down with my father Gone till November Boo, I didn't blame you when your folks didn't approve our love Somehow, I find peace seeing roses grow in the graveyard Why? Me Dreams never die As the world turns I write this for my little girl in a far away land One day We will understand Some day When we separate wheat from the scraps Death from life Time from space I wrote this for worship So I can remember Things I can't control, things I can change never This is my body in bread Break down pain, feed every soul digging my crates Just when I thought it's over My soul aching Dams breaking Flooded, lamenting Lost memories Dark clouds hover over my soul I hear my soul cry Stay close to the phone, just in case my number calls Buya Marach, finally I can die with a smile Truth!
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Audacity II 03:05
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|Verse 1| Maua, kadi, bustani blow me kisses kwa phone Ukiwa mbali, huwa struggle: baby rudi home Hadithi hii haijasemwa kwa song Naenda ntarudi, for siku mingi nimekuwa kwa road Mvua, mafuriko, so nimecover metaphors na soul Na nikiwrite, hufeel ni ka nadie, Na me simind, staki niwe overblown Niko gado, nafsi flora blossom Na baado, hufeel body stuck kwa portal Na wimbo me huandika Nikikumbuka ma-demise Za urafiki hazikujipa Kuchora zamu kwa kalenda, siku mingi kwenye grind Mistari masterpiece Sitaki regrets ikuwe price Waliopanda wanashuka wakiishiwa na dime Staki nitupe mawe nyumbangu glesi Na kwa kila wakigonga glesi kufurahia misiba si hupitia, goodbye Na kila sifa, glory, wivu mbaya, skiza ngoma rewind |Hook| Come back to the middle Come back home Come back home Come back home |Verse 2| Makosa mengi ndio ilinileta this far Wembe kwa penseli juu si hupenda na scars Uzito kichwani karibu inivunje nafsi, moyo Natoa ngozi niwe mpya nitunze roho Kukiwa baridi hoodie huficha chest closed Kiganja chuma tano tangu era za hofu, mvua kwa clouds Kwa kila njia different tunatembeza the force Hesabu za maili nane na cross Inua wengi, watie moyo unaowajali daddy aliambia nikiwa mdogo Na nikicheka hio faraja ni reminder ya sura yake bila kificho Nafsi yangu imechoka though ulimi bad news Na sikujua, wengi wangenijenga nilipohitaji clear view Hadi siku tunakwenda, roho ndio dhabihu Naweka futi kwa ulimi, moto ka jacuzzi Malibu Kufuata nyayo haki si ya crooks Penseli risasi wacha watemi na shook Hi sio hatma nilichagua machungu na blues Kutafuta pali pa mazoea na utu Asalaam aleikum sauti freshy ficha hijab Shalom kwa undugu wa dhati Walioko hapa close na very far Tukipumua huwa hatuamini siku za kudie Na nafsi nuru, so tunaipa dunia the shine Tutaondoka huru, watasema ni vyema tulifight For now kila love song hunikumbusha picha zako fly Huwa ni vita kukukumbuka kila time Kuongea pekee yangu, rewind Mwisho mwa beti ziuanza penye ilianza before
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Dear Mama (Refix) 04:26
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Exit 04:07
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Executive Producer: Buya Marach
Producers: Kwame Miguda, Nymano
Vocals: Ash254, Kwame Miguda, Isis, Chimango, Has-lo,
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered at: Cambridge Studio, Eldoret
Photography:Nikki
Artwork: GruffLee

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released June 16, 2018

Executive Producer: Buya Marach
Producers: Kwame Miguda, Nymano
Vocals: Ash254, Kwame Miguda, Isis, Chimango, Has-lo,
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered at: Cambridge Studio, Eldoret
Photography: Nikki
Artwork: GruffLee

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Ochuka Nairobi, Kenya

Omondi Ochuka is a Kenyan poet, visual artist and thinker whose literary flare spans ages beyond his time. From an early age, he displayed an adept intimacy to books.

He's been defined by critics as abstract, rich in metaphor and symbolism; a Saul William-esque pen with a cryptically profound nature. Fused with classical verses and Hip-hop, he gyrates words into a web of intricate melodies ... more

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