Wake Current

[Verse 1]
You check the Audemars on your wrist, it's half-past ten.
The same time you used to stand the watch back then.
You trade the salt-spray for this Eko Hotel breeze,
And tell yourself you finally found your ease.
But the barman calls your name, you turn your head too fast,
Still listening for a rank you left in the past.

[Chorus]
You say you don't know the boy again,
But na him pay for this life you dey spend.
You say you don't know that boy no more,
But his shadow still dey wait outside your door.

[Verse 2]
Remember that August, off the coast of Bonny?
Chief Officer talk say, "Bayo, you get ice inside your body."
Now you dey argue price of fish at Ebeano market,
And the quiet in your condo feels like an empty target.
Your girl dey trace the map of veins inside your hand,
She no know say that hand once held a different command.

[Bridge]
So you close your eyes and ask the boy from Apapa wharf,
Was all that pressure just a current pushing you north?

[Outro]
(a cappella)
This new reflection...
Is he the safe harbour, or just the correction?