Ola Onabulé - Lagos Boy

LAGOS BOY

Lagos boy face up to the truth
Hope is fading, chances slipping
And neither joy nor pride in victory past
can stay the closing, if tomorrows failings are sealed

Lagos boy I have heard the world's
no longer listening, and long stopped caring
It's bitter joy, guiding home the lost
whose fated journey is not beginning to end

You promised so much, we longed for so long
Beyond reach or touch
Gone where believing went
tested without relent
all expectation spent still can't see
A better future right ahead of us

Lagos boy pull back from the edge
Of self destruction a new direction
May bring true joy, and help you rid yourself
Of old perceptions till self-deception is past

it's unravelling before your eyes, be still, then you might see there's so much ahead

We struggled we fought, survived all as one
tho' beaten and wrought
We seek a new dream to hold
to make us brave and bold
Eyes without scales of old that see
A brighter future right ahead of us

Lagos boy you bound our hopes to faith
but God is sleeping and can't hear our pleading
We prayed that joy would find our weary hearts
Tho' we're still waiting, time is passing us by

Lagos boy you have to turn it round
So many of you are not returning
and there's no joy in losing sight of home
When home is burning and you've no home Lagos boy

Written by:
Ola Onabulé

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