Lyrics
The spine on this Cabral paperback is crumbling in the heat.
Your fine leather shoes don't belong on this Oje street.
You talk of a nation, a blueprint so grand,
With a fat, sweating envelope here in your hand.
[Chorus]
Don't talk to me of foundations, I know what's underneath.
I'm counting the termites that rot in your speech.
No, I won't build on your termite promise.
Oga, I won't build on your termite promise.
[Verse 2]
"Think of your brothers," you say with a smile.
"A strong roof for them, it has been a long while."
The A/C from your Prado blows cold on my neck.
You want my father's name on a rubber-stamped cheque.
[Bridge]
You think this saxophone is just for some show?
It's the only damn witness that saw my youth go.
You think this ink on my hand is for signing your lies?
I'm still counting the bodies behind your new rise.
[Outro]
Six hungry mouths. A library of dust.
Some foundations are memory, some are just rust.
About Fela Kuyo
Fela Kuyo was raised in the shadow of the University of Ibadan, the eldest of six siblings who became a parent at fourteen when his activist father was silenced. His only inheritance was his father's political library and an old saxophone, which he taught himself to play by listening to Fela Kuti records. Today, he still lives in his hometown, his sprawling Afrobeat epics telling the story of a…
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