New Tenants

[Verse 1]
The blue light from the DJ booth at VIBE paints a crack on his smile.
He dey laugh with some boys I never see, for a long, long while.
His new shirt too tight for his shoulders, he moves like a stranger now.
The bass from the speaker stack dey vibrate his chest bone, somehow.

[Chorus]
He get new tenants for the space I dey before.
But the foundation still dey shake when my name knock for the door.
He get new tenants, e build the walls up high and tall.
But the floorboards still remember my weight before the fall.

[Verse 2]
Toun whispers, "Heard he took the contract from your Papa's firm."
The shisha smoke tastes like rust now, makes my stomach turn.
Our eyes meet across the sweaty room for half a second's time.
He change the master key, but the old lock still dey jam sometimes.

[Chorus]
He get new tenants for the space I dey before.
But the foundation still dey shake when my name knock for the door.
He get new tenants, e build the walls up high and tall.
But the floorboards still remember my weight before the fall.

[Bridge]
We draw the blueprint for this life on one school book in Shitta.
Who go know say your own scaffold go need to break my own pillar?

[Outro]
(Music strips to only voice and a single, muted acoustic guitar)
The foundation still dey shake...
When my name knock for the door.