Nsay ki la - Cities on Fire (feat. Bona Chucks)

Cities on fire!
Peace without justice is an impossibility
Let's quench the fire!

People are homeless
Many are foodless
Others are jobless
Suffering seems endless
In our homelands

Everything's burning
Many are yearning
Though some are earning
Pain is just purling
Where do we go?

See them running away
In search of greener pastures;
Wanting to be free:
But what many get is not freedom

Starving and dying of huger
When we should have all the food
Mama Africa so richly blessed:
Yet her children in misery!

We fight wars but we don't make guns;
The enemy watches and has fun
Burning our own cities:
See the smoke keeps rising!

Keep inventing new ways
Of celebrating bad performance
Those who cry foul
Are sent behind bars

Our cities on fire!
See the flames rising!
We're living a mire
We know God is not hiding
Pick up your wire:
talk about this fighting
If our cities stay on fire
We shall only keep dying

All these cities on fire!
See the flames rising!
We're living a mire
We know God is not hiding
So, pick up your wire:
Shout about this fighting
If anyone is a liar
We shall only keep dying

Do you know why?
Do you wanna know, know why?
(Every cloud has a silver lining, except a war cloud. - Anonymous)
Can you tell why?
Listen! Yes, Sir!

The greedy leaders and their foreign masters!
Yes. Let me tell you why
It's the greedy leaders with their foreign masters

They built up flawed systems!
Weak, ineffective systems!
Judiciary, legislature - only on paper!
Systems that breed corruption!

Steal from the poor and punish them for it!
Do what they want with no call to order!
Those who ask for a better system:
Jailed or maimed, killed or exiled

They say there's a problem:
You lock them away
You admit the problem
But keep them locked away!

Others support the systems
To break from the stolen bread
While the masses go empty
Without any daily bread

And now everyone's
Learning this bad way
So we collude with the secret masters
To set our cities to flames

Our cities on fire!
See the flames rising!
We're living a mire
We know God is not hiding
Oh! pick up your wire:
Talk about this fighting
If our cities stay on fire
We shall only keep dying

All these cities on fire!
See the flames rising!
We're living a mire
We know God is not hiding
Oh! pick up your wire:
Shout about this fighting
If anyone is a liar
We shall only keep dying

Let's quench this fire
Na Blogger wey e di sing song
We can quench this fire
Na Bona Chucks yeah

Ma people di die
Our mama them too them di cry
What's the future now
Save our children yeah
Mama Africa, our towns and cities on fire
They don't know;
We di cry everyday
Papa show we the way
We need freedom
We need justice and peace, oh no! yeah!
We go shidong, we go talk'am as one, oh no no
Mama Africa, stop all the killings;
Let us sit and talk this yeah. Oh no
Mama dey cry say:

Our cities on fire!
See the flames rising!
We're living a mire
We know God is not hiding
Pick up your wire:
Talk about this fighting
If our cities stay on fire
We shall only keep dying

All these cities on fire!
See the flames rising!
We're living a mire
We know God is not hiding
So, pick up your wire:
Shout about this fighting
If anyone is a liar
We shall only keep dying

All these cities on fire!
See the flames rising!
We're living a mire
We know God is not hiding
Eh! pick up your wire:
talk about this fighting
If anyone is liar
We shall only keep dying oh!

Written by:
Nsay ki la, Bona Chucks, Nsaikila Njong

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