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Le Jour Ou tu Partiras 03:47
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Track — Le Jour Où tu Partiras In the magic of the first days We had said words of love What about? The eyes we cry What about? The love in my sad eyes You are only tear of God Would you still lah me, against these sneer of odds? Touch my body and heal your own? In the magic of the first days. We both have grace for memories What about? Nights I bleed, while you sound asleep What about? The love i carry within If there's a cure, I'll heal when I see you heal Use my daughter's hand to crayon the unseen When the ship departs, son, it must leave Gentle with the fever on the winds Raging with the unheard sorrows of the sea Nothing lasts forever I would say am sick of being sick But even death has its own defeat We're all droppings Our flowers fleet Dear friend, When it gets heavy, Belle sings me her maiden melodies My soul stretches through lonely fields My soul quietens when my bones hurt too deep In the magic of last days I only wish for joy and grace When I return dis soul back to the essence Knowing that I touched souls Beyond sophisticated boulevard and dusty villages Holding my shadow against the candlelight I give you nothing but my soul Thankful, for all the love I got when I was down I stand tall against decoy of sealed fate When it comes, It'll find me breathing like a god in his element Soul survivor If I touch poems, golden Midas What about? Things we carry inside us. What about? When I grow too weary, let me soul find rest far from here —.
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Burreau De Chase 03:01
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Track — 53 & 54 (Barreau de Chaise) Nishafumanwa na hii fani Nishaundwa kuishi zaidi ya mavumbini, ingawa body hudhoofika Wanasema huu mwili ni cladi Wanasema kuishi ni vipindi vya kubadilishiwa rangi Kuna mvua mafichoni Kuna, jua ya kukausha maumbile ya udongoni Nishaifungwa kwa hii jela Ya kujitazama kwenye macho ya sinema Nishaitunzwa na ufunguo na ufunuo, kuongoza macho dhidi ya mapitio ya kujutia Kuishi nka pumzi ni wosia Juu kila day, juu ya ground... Juu bila wisdom, juu ya doubt... Juu bila frame, picha hii labda itajudgiwa na flaw Kuna life zaidi ya nyumba ziko broken Zaidi ya nzi zinakufia glesi za beer, usiku mom ako on her knees bended Zaidi ya do or die Flee or flight, Nishaguzwa wire flani ndani ya soul Stemi, najifunza ibada ya nafsi na roho Siongei tu, naumba life nikitumia uliko, yo bless your soul Nishafunzwa na life, Kitaa chuo walimwengu Nishaugua nikajitazama uso chini ya candlelight Nishakosea sana Nikajifunza kuishi bila weight ya lawama begani Nishaijiinua from a life broken, Nafsi imejifunza me gi through the journey Nishajifunza dua, love tena kufariji kwa kuangazia wengine mema, ni imani. 54. Okra pods exploding Birds and bees, serenade the sunflowers Nineteen, ninety three, the weather be a little foggy The birth on the air There's love to be here Trees away with the winds The Lake swells her belly The earth soaks forever planting the days These are the days of our glory We are named after love after marvelous crown of the craft We are named after small boats carrying memories Like quiet storms bubbling where miracles thrive These are fallen leaves Gone into the wind, singing melodies These are life held together by dreams The tick tock clocking on the sleeve The playfield The boundless theatre in the minds The small holes of music The icon soul, Never soul, never bought, Invisible wonder, natural mystic flows Red millet head crown the hills at home The green grass The steel bells The ink pens, the trek through the distance The memory verse The folklores The stories that became our hearts The blisters Of folks bleeding to put a smile on our face The joy of life when there never used to be a fence That separates us from them They from us I from everyone else And life was beautiful If they ever said how the glass was full I tell them, it's all in the eye A grateful soul, knows the gift of life Is sharing the love that's you.
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IAM 04:14
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Track — IAM (Rich forever) I just wrote my soul... Thinking how my homies, hold me down Buya, Mike Wudz, Reki, Truth I hope I made you proud And all da people da listen All my people da givin Me love, I give you nothing but my soul Thinking my boogie roses on my thorns I had you, so I want on own Sending me love, you gotta hear on my song I have been carrying roses for the things that died and left Don't hear your soul cry in pain? Carrying these scars, Purple flowers for the boy I eulogize, A day in the life, when that stone fell on grandpa's casket Then home became a lonely place Instead of dinner and laughter and flowers All I hear is her tears falling on the bible page How could life be so beautiful, it's tragic? How could love be so blue, playing my melancholy? Another night with fireflies mourning in my chest That's why I don't speak I'd rather leave my tongue bleeding on the piano, cause that's how best I breathe Another beeping noise by the hospital bed I hear my soul mourn on sirens Another child of fate for all the joy and grace Another breath of me looking deep into myself I couldn't heal one bit, so I let the feathers blow my soul away Couldn't even hold my daughter Across the belly of the universe, I place my bets Cause everyday I feel alive And all I could wish is for life to be gentle with her To cherish her beautiful soul, to bless her with all my love How could love be so red, it glows blue? I remitted a year, thought finally the weight is over A cage of worms, ballads for wars that claimed my best soldiers In the eye of the sky I spoke languages that only the broken knew? Yet I could only pen my lips with beautiful silence I stained the journey of my soul (Starry Nights) Maybe one day the world may feel my soul Where stars shine and the universe is reborn I'm sad and I know Romi asked where do we go when the wings don't fly no more? I've slipped ashes through my fingers I even promised after 22, i will never cry Maybe after, one by one, my white cells unfold and I become another bad weed growing in the garden of scars I wrote the world soul Symphonies of bad weathers Yet everytime I listen to my tracks I only see my grandma's face Maybe I failed Maybe this is how we was meant to trade our pain Maybe every stroke emptied my canvas Maybe cancer was no horoscope Maybe it's the lethal flaw I couldn't survive Maybe I would never know why my own body blooms, only for me to die Maybe grandpa still works in the yard with Mozart stringing in the background Maybe you and me should have forgotten the past Like the nights your flames died You shown me the door, and I didn't even cry Cause I've been profoundly abandoned, so maybe that's why when you left, I drowned in my void but didn't die I never had much I lived thru awful times, looking for a cure in love How much? Can a body survive, terrible flaws? Broken in ways I couldn't hide, maybe I was just looking for a place to call home Maybe our odds fell And the record got stuck with stories we couldn't even tell Maybe I should have stopped howling at every moon I named after my mother Cause memories are deaths And deaths carry your fate like that slimy slug, them tumours have been digging open my grave And maybe one day when my wounds meet by the river Body you and me wouldn't be strangers Sometime the cracks on the earth remind me of the holes I cannot fill Like my chest gaping, reflecting for the stories I couldn't spit Time forgets Clocks defect The space churns the slow grind of a body that leaves me all defenseless Maybe I dreamt too much When I stare at the sun, my own shadows leave me behind Maybe I slept on my mind Cause these things in my head could put beauty to a tragic grind Stabs on the canvas Ropes on a strange fruits, of an author who couldn't put his name on the covers They say roots bleed the most But we only see the blood left after the leaves fall This could be me or you on the other side of the dial tone
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Dear Mama III 04:53
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Track - Dear Mama III |Verse 1| Dear Mama, Usiku flani, Two Oh Seven, karibu udie na asthma Nilipanick, nikikuwipe machozi kando ya kitanda Uchungu wa mzazi me ndio nilifeel mwana Au kuzaliwa kwangu ndio ilikuletea blunder? Nilijiuliza maswali kadhaa, nafsi yangu ikachoka sana Vita iko akilini baba ni mzazi au baba no jina Kwa nini ulipoteza brothers zako, nyumbani kukakosa breadwinner Sijui nilizaliwa kwa makosa au nilikuletea faraja? Wazazi wako ndio wakakuwa wangu, kufa na kuzikana Nikabreakdown vibaya ukanikumbatia Kwa soft whispers ukanambia, "Aheri kendageni babana!" Ukasema namfanana babu, nilipozaliwa nilikuwa your gift hamper Ukaniambia days huget better Sis alikuwa toddler, sidhani alijua machozi ilimwagika Sikulaumu sweet mama We ndio malkia, na Bevy ndio First Runner's Tumesurvive winter, tukafarijiwa na summer |Hook| Sometime Somewhere Someplace I will never find another like you, mama Cause forever it's you I'll always love you |Verse 2| Dear Mama Historia hujirudia, gurudumu sa ni langu kuliskuma Future haijulikani, so tunategemea maybe hadithi za jana Siku flani kwa wodi nilikuwa nimelazwa Pain ilikuwa too much Madawa hazifanyi kazi, body ikashindwa kujizuia Nakufa mommy, kabla hata sijakutunza Kabla sijaleta shahada, already ninamwaga unga Ndoto zangu zinaniasi, Mashini zinabeep ICU, afya yangu imevunjwa glasi Damu inaongezwa kwa tubes Mitaani kila mtu ako blue Wanangoja ripoti, madaktari hawana clue Kwa gazeti na habari, saratani ina mbaya mbiu Wanasema survivors ni wafew "No baby, not you, Niko by your side. Hakuna kitu siezido for you!" Sometimes, Siamini nikifikiria hadithi yangu So dear Mama Nimeishi life uchungu lakini love yako ilikuwa fortunes Ndio nikaandika barua nibless you Imani yako ndio hunihold down, soul food I feel sorry Juu bahati mbaya imegeuza life yangu sad stories Siku unasoma hii, smile mama, si unajua nakuadore Nitakuja very soon, na usikalie nikitoka baado nitarudi home Love yangu very deep Ninakumiss Mama Gloria, ninakuenzi kila day, ninapray
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Si Tu M'aimais 04:48
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Track — Ask for Help (Si Tu M'Aimsis) You hide how you feel Too scared to show you're real Thought of rejection makes you ill Always guessing, always stressing how to heal I've been prayin', never stayin' Too far away Never judging, always trusting you'll hear me say You don't have to cry by yourself Swallow your pride, ask for help You don't, you don't have to lie to shield yourself You'll be alright, yes, you can ask for my help Ask for my help There seem to be a shadow Everywhere my mountains go, it's there with me Used to put the past into the ground Then watch the brown grass reflect the ashes in the clouds Used to book our mistakes with the grief of doubt Now everywhere you go the weeds hang over your head Reminding you of your deep slumber on the rusty nails Used to be flowers awakening on the inside Used to be dinner, prayers and family time Now it's a dance of strange stones on the rope Trying to spread the wings where dead hopes go Used to be soul to soul Not mirrors and broken glass on the sidewalks Used to be love, from the soils where bones grow Used to know how to heal Than silence of the plague Used to be love, that words couldn't sketch Used to be breath for breath Not screenshots of weathered souls without grace Used to be a hug away from healing Now every one has their thorns, their own bleeding Now everyone is caught up with the fence gates, drowning in the flames the shield of dying moths in the mind the grief of broken dreams only the sad moon knows the taste of your cries flaws of a degenerate Used to be some hope Now it's the cross hanging facing hills of fallen gods Now we hang by Stuck, wishing you would die Used to be a road Now we wear darkness on our sleeves Only blades swim familiar with how we feel Only the sad butterflies crack through their blindness in our envy Now we break bare, while love watches nearby Now we open sad and be lucky if we survive Prayers used to seem to work Now they are stuck in braille, only demons keep you company on the roof of your head Used to be a remedy from the flowers we pick for them that fight breathing now they go, each day there's a pain that keeps digging now we hide behind validation and social experiments now we open the purse and put on our disguise now we build acts and play our tragic dramas Used to be love Used to be help Used to be a lean on me, when you need a friend Now they torch your spirits behind the keyboard Now they struggle too, Now they might care when they bury you Used to be pain Now you survive things that kill you slow Quick by the clock the heart cries, the mind puzzles with the tropes tragic, plugged in pills, and endless therapies before the sun fades there's a bone breaking Used to seem to be a fix now we gear with the mechanics use ourselves to trick the machinery Used to be embraced, Now we tag every rejection we ever dealt Used to be a place you could call home Used to be a homie you could run to Used to be a shadow you could sit under Used to be a mind to gather your thoughts Now home is a grave And homies are broken And shadows hang heavy, ready to fall And the mind is your greatest pain Used to get healed Now the universe is sick and it can't cure its own DNA Used to be a place you could run to on the inside Now it's war, the body became a strange battlefield Used to be a home Now we build walls to hide our graves
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One More Chance 03:03
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Track — One More Chance And I never thought that it could have been (Once I seen it with my own eyes, I will never guess again) I'm gone need some time just to take it in (Cause it's hard for me to swallow, but even harder for me to bottle) Dear mother of two Why does your eyes sing blues Why does your cries leave bruises And why And why do you try so hard and still And still feel like you losing You haven't had a breakthrough yet That's respect Guessing what comes next would Build you up to be more complex Is that you? Perfect as a statue Reminding me of my mom's Calm even when the storm comes You'll never run away from fears but face them Even when in tears You're amazing to me Pretty smile like my sister scar You been through the worst But ain't went that far Dear Ms. Broken Heart, can I fix you a drink? You can take a sip from my healing thoughts And I will show you the way from being lost Introduce you to the beauty I see in your soul Be my comforting muse in these songs Been on a shock when I first got the news For like 15 minutes i didn't move I just sat there opened, jaw dropping Pretending that it wasn't true And if it was I wondered what could I do I watch the phone dial itself and fade out And your voice rang on my head like a proof I heard the words that caused my nerves to burn inside They were, "Babe, Jay died last night." I let a sound of a broken heart Like a body just crushed For those who who've grown attached Only to have to let go so fast It was so sad cause He was so young He was so loved, but I know he no longer in pain Maybe we'll see each other again But until then, He will be missed, dear soul give us strength. I know that life ain't fair Believe me, I felt the pain from your heart It still hurts right here I just wiped your face with my palm Never thought his life will be gone in just 10 years Even though you're not here in the flesh Through striving in life Your memories will forever remain till our own deaths And I feel you'll remember to keeping your mommy strong It's a hole left in this life When we look in the skies I know that we will never forget The love that you gave, the time that you spent Making sure that your little sister was safe You can never replace A beautiful heart as yours I just need you to walk free into the doors from pain We love you Jay, Well never forget The love that you gave The time that you spent Boy, if you stroll by give my Mira a kiss
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Tears On My Pillow 04:20
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Track — Outro (Tears on my Pillow Case) Born out of odds I would have never walked out my mama's door June when the winds blow That's why my mind sparkle with the pollen chalk Deep to the soul Where rivers run deep and flow Cross pollinate that with the fire I been through A little cute with flaws, beautiful with a heart of gold While blood still flows through me, I bleed and I breathe, That's what survivors do I'm tying ribbons on my finger penning my vows I ain't want cancer to find me broken on my knees When it comes, it'll find me high on the mountain top With every obstacle I ever survived beneath my broken sole Crawling on my grandma's floor To table-walking, To gibberish, sleeping on the baby cot Hall of fame Kodak films and memories, pictures on the wall Spoke less more than my eyes could tell Black and white rice on the telly When I vibe, The journey of the butterflies blooming inside the belly 93 Mind detour "Where you from?" I take you to a place inside my grandma's only eye left I asked her if she will never stop to see me As beautiful, Smiled and said, "Like the earth watching the mirror in the skies," So even though I was left To break even from tainted beginnings of shame I know a place where love lives Where pain mingles with departed dreams But still, embrace me with the cherishing of a rose That's why my first syllables of love be, ma-ma (Maria ma ma-ma) (Maria ma ma-ma) And it daent mean I love my mama less I can pick your seed from a crowd of grains If I could, I would Hold you to the sun, flower Ma see yourself in my daughter's face That's why when I write, it's an epic sketch I want no more victory Than triumph over these faulty flaws of my body I want no more glory If I can't dance in the rains that make your eyes wet Cloudy like mine Brave, Is baring your wounds, healing from the inside Courage is the laughter in our cries Inspiring lives, in a way we cannot define The world is weary on its death bed They call us broken jars of clay I bring you flowers If you feel alone, here you can hold on to mine I'd break so many hearts If I could tell, everything I been through So maybe some stories I'll never find their names (ini ya moua moua moua) (ini ya moua moua moua) Since they gave me time I lived like a ticking clock, grief bubble in the fuse Strength, is the taste of grace in every breath Alone left behind, drawing a journey on the sands Everyday it kills me carrying this body inside this shell Everyday it pains me missing every loved one that left A better place cannot be worse than here But what's worse than living your worst fears? (ini ya moua moua moua) (ini ya moua moua moua) I ain't write these Like a broken record, to whine and complain I frame these Like master strokes If they touch you, then am a genius with my blindfolds on They say when you carry your mortality, time is a tragedy, and trauma grinds you to the core So next time when you gather again To send back Morse code in form of fallen friends I hope the universe walks with you in the rains I hope that memories ain't just some fading flames I hope that you nurture And let love find you where you soul wanders We talk through virtual spaces And choke by own breaths behind wallflowers and fences "What's on your mind?" A blank stare of a user's interface Concealers reveal never the hidden pains In boys clubs and girls glam, the darkness is stifled away Baby showers, Then black tees, pictures, shinning caskets and eulogy Some people end their days Are they cowards or misunderstood? Invisible or trying to grow beyond these forsaken roots? I have so many reasons to live And many reasons to die, feel the ironies collide Some say it could be worse Fortunately, sometimes I have strong people behind me And most days I feel broken and lonely Came to me out of nothing So when you hear this Do you think I can take you to a place where a soul can heal? Here take mine From here to where the universe grows our seeds! And you who listens, to this album, do you think that it speaks to you? Mantra Home of soul. And everyone who done leave, sincerely missed
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Kodhi 05:07
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Track — Kodhi I guess. I guess I am ready for the rest of it. They say you only get to write one story, one poem, thereafter you circle the flower with your algebra trying to tell your story in many breaths. Here's mine: Onyuola ayudo ka mzae pod ngima Ja-plan pod goro, Frank pod ler, okew Koguta, osiep Maria Kor got e kind kite Rapuch Guya Nya-Ndori puro pidho ji tee Mwalo Ka-Rabuor Tobia pod ogenore gi jaode ma-Awuor Onyuola ayudo Jay thietho piny mabor Otis pod tiegre bende piny mabor Kosogo thurgi mamana osoke wer kendo gedo Sigoti tie God-Mesa, Nyakach Ogero, piny Diang'a K'Owuor kod Ondiek Chilo Agoli e chunya, gop nenda Agolo ka chiw, ramich piny mang'ongo Ka chando ropi, golie dhogi, Del adhola, madonjo miyi songa yot Mawuok gonyi omboha, sama ombulu mienyo Onyuola ayudo mama pod tin Lekne duto mag somo maber alwaro piny Minwa Nya-sipot, osiepa mos, awuoro kaka ich mara nenochwanyi Onyuola aneno Akinyi lera pod nitie Japuonj somo matek dwabedo bende jathieth Odumbe ni gi gweth Fredy nigi lost tapes, dreams of making dope records way back then Kinde no dala ne pod nigi mor Kendo maup wuora oguyo pie Kindeno Sondo rach, lweny bende ger Kindeno stima pok oket Odino gi Jo-Konoike Kindeno Store-Pamba pod nitie Jomapuro puro, jong'iepo bende nitie Kindeno nyiri matin emapod negamo remo neno dwe Omiyo kuom jii mang'eny Ne an mana chwanyruok achwanya, ikawa mana ka mistake Jomajari jari Jomayanyi yanyi Kakikia Wuonu dongionge thuru be To jomoheri heri, piri mamuol nyaka nindo kwanyi be Apon aromo gi bap dwele ranga dani mwalo Tomra, Lera wang'e otimo luoch Raballa Ja-klas, ngire, bend siredo otamo winy ewii got Yawuoyi nayombo pep, sama piem oneno Omiyo aneno sama kwara kwano yawuote e kul, to an bende an siro, rwath donge an koda loch! Ochuka kaninindo chunya nenoyudo buok Wende ayiem pod parona yik mari e bugo Osiepna neniler To chunyi bende ler Osiepna nenimor Awuoro piny jomotho ma ok dane wang'i kendo Nenijahera, jang'ad bura mowinjore be Ja-plan nenageni, Deherona dwadak aming'a, wadhie bayo piny ragen Apon ayiko bao moting'o Otis koda Jay Ngima ne tek, ahaw bang' minwa katedo piny mawendo Thagruok kod dhao mosiko, keny maonge geno Ka dhao oromo meru, To ditimri nade, to in man rawera mobigo? Apon apiro omera matin, kod nyamera bende bang' kinde mathoth Kamoro ne lit, Koth chwe wating'o osigo wapondo gi mama piny ne lich Omiyo mama inie hono, atimoni mos kuom masira manolwar kuomi Miyo ng'ama lich Minwa ne chalo mana chuny motwe Minwa ne piny ogo boks, maonge geno, be en mana lamo kod wer Apon akalo tembe te Chuny machwer gi iye, but I still smile on my face Soul survivor, Ditinde an liel Ditinde an lowo gi msalaba mar simiti e wiye Kapod in dhano In lowo, in chuodho, in sigana migano Kapod obopi gamo yamo To chunyi kwang' e i ataro In buru, in buya, in ringre miyang'o Ka pod remo ringe dendi In tipo, in kuoyo, in mana yawo maduono Apon gi denda man kod tuo gi rem All my life I been in pain Jachwech ng'uenyo anywang' marateng Kikuro idonge thim, They say some stories you take to the grave Since they doubted my pen I've been here scribing genius, with my flowers facing the blades Apon abedo Wuon Awuor Dineonge midekre ditinde sigandwa mil e polo koda dwe Dineonge wichkuot Ditinde wasiemo kama chieng' aluongoni dala, an aana nyathi nyaguok Apon tinde an dhano Masira sando chunya, gimawachi emaonge Akuro tinde an ng'ato Ng'amasira onge Sometimes I look deep in the the skies and only see my mama's face And her mama's face
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You're My Angel 04:44
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Track —You're My Angel Ever stood on your broken limbs, Your flowers died and you should have gone with old dreams Swallowed your tongue, homie, to taste your own medicine Dropped your chest in the pit, so you won't break down and cry Heard, "Hello," instead of, "Goodbye," From the outside, Crying with Adele Things we don't say, do they grow monsters on the inside? Red flags from both sides Fait acompli When life checks you with empty decks, then you know the cards are wild When your soul holds on But your body be like, "I won't comply" Ever loved broken The ones you hold close, same ones you let get away And love feel like procain, you're wounded Ever looked in the mirror and turned salty Looked back but everything is ruins, rubble buried in too deep Swept your head with the clock as time widens the drift Raised your dreams From the dead Walked on fire, did untold things blades through you so you could live for your kids Ever wished you would have done different Changed the script before the first syllable in preface Ever wished your sins would have been forgiven Instead of carrying pain you hafi let it go with the rains Jumped to the hole inside you Night life comes during the daylight Starlight, burnouts and lonely nights Ever wondered why we here If you bleed, you alive is that sincere If you pill, you still die, there ain't no cure Ever put a knife in people you claim that you love Promised them a home then give them battle cries I've got bars for brothers Candy and flowers for the sisters I've got love for mama No doubt sometimes I wish I had a father Grew up in war with mama but still survived Flew out the nest with broken wings through the vagaries of life Forgave yourself Cause even though you failed you tried Healed yourself For the pain you keep inside Ever got so close Flat lines on the screen Panic on the room that broke yo mama soul Ever been left by the sidewalks No tears No cries No fears I just be rolling the dice No filters No doubt I got a beautiful soul inside Tragic story bloodwritten by the ink Ever thought about your life changing by the thread Grind in the field everyday but you can't break no bread Fight yo demons only for them to bring more flames Sent calls of distress Angels dying on the roof, your bruised knees on the concrete floor Ever put on these heavy shoes And the laces feel like they strangling with sad blues Wrote till the pulse stopped Bled dust, blades of grass and cold stones Ever lost it all And wished it never began at all Pushed a loved one on the gurney Lowered another down the hole that swallows our memory Held your newborn babies in your arms One breathing and held another still born, do you cry or laugh at life's sick humour From paychecks To dry mouths, to pace-make From back in the day To days like these From first class To third grade, turned that tumor to a lemonade From nobody on the food chain To turning words into miracles whenever you pray From friends who become family To blood ties that bootcamp when you in need
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Everything 02:40
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Track – Everything Maua: bustani Kioo: kilio, faraja na ujio wa kuotoka mbali Hali? Njema tu, nafsi Wakati mwingine, si ati uhai kuishi Moyo: bonde lipi utakuonea huruma? Maisha: chini yaa jua, hali? Sometimes, sio njema Je, taabu ina manufaa? Je, maisha ni tamthilia ya kujifunza tu? Je, ukifumba macho kuna tu giza? Au Kuna, mafikra Makumbusho Ya kwamba, Hisia, utu, maumbile, maumivu Na tena, hila ni wa kila mtu Maovu, hivi matukio ya mauti kazi yao nini? Au, au ni malipo, ya pumzi? Malipo ya dhambi ya kurithi? Siku, unakwisha kuwa mtu, unageuzwa body tu... where do we go from here? where's home? what's love? (got to do with this?) what's life? what's death? What's dying having not lived? What's living, just to die? What's, What's all of this? Is it nothing? Are we, something? Who are we? What are we? What are these? These things, these people we are? Why? Why me? Why you? Why not you, or me? Question. Questions. Answers. More questions.

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released June 1, 2020

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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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