You can pull me apart,
You can bring on the dark,
Faced much worse in my heart.
Dreaded days, they won’t end
He rode in silence and went,
Never was seen again.
Is there success in my name?
Or is my fate laid in pain?
Who do I speak to?
Are we doomed to be slaves –
To a screen that says “stay, I’ll make you feel okay”?
[Chorus]
Who said it, they said it – it was lies
Foolish of me to reside in places that I couldn’t try
I’m a lot, don’t be slow
Catch up, we move on, we ride along yeah.
What a waste of my time, what a waste of your life, what a waste of short nights.
What a waste of my time, what waste of your life, what a waste of short nights.
[Chorus]
[Eartha Kitt outro]:
Life is not problematical; we make it problematical
Because we’re all listening to something – to someone else – to something
Without listening to ourselves.
We buy a lot of junk for instance that we know damn well we don’t need.
We clutter up our lives with insignificant things that have no value at all.
But when we start to think about how simple life is and how simple it should be lived,
Then we begin to realize I have no problem, I don’t have a real problem.
Problem is something you make – life is something you live.
credits
from an ode to growth,
released May 22, 2020
written by Moonga Kapambwe
produced by Liam Jones
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