You Left
India, it is u went
Friend
Three decades now
You've left
And what hav you achieved?
If not bread to live by
Tell me what have
You achieved dear friend?
.
As for me, your friehd
In Nigeria,
I have achieved nothing
Just freedom,
And life, to live by.
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America of Our Dreams
I am not in Africa
But Africa is in me,
Africa lies in my blood,
Where I was brought
up, amidst this rot;
This rot that had eaten deep
Into the heart of my Africa.
If we could right this wrong
Then we could make of Africa,
The America of our dreams.
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When I Was The Devil
When I was the devil
I sent many a devil
To my brother the devil
In Hell his abode.
.
When I was the devil
I lived half my years
In darkness and fear
I never had rest.
.
So glad I found Christ
Who brought me light
Never again shall
I wander from your sight.
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Dont Stand so Close to Me (Reprise)
Dmt stand so close to me Naomi
By now you know my reason
I just want you to take it easy
You dont fall in love just like that
Eternity is not enough to know me
You dont even know what I am looking
I want to be happy for eternity
This is my number one priority
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I am Fading
Would you help me?
I am fading
Someone once told me
I have a century to live
But now I am fading
Would you save me?
Death is lurking
My country is calling
Can you hear it now?
I have so much to achieve
But my body is weak
Though I am heading
For a century.
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The Beautyful Woman
The beautyful woman
Is diception herself.
her character iritates
and her love destroys
mans heart,
her threat turn men
To cawards
her presence is an
undesiring necessity.
Many a man cant live
without the beautyful
woman
but a few can manage
without the beauty.
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Don't Cry for Me
Don't cry for me
- my child.
My journey's not forever.
Time called me
For a challenge
And I should take
Before it gets late.
.
But don't cry for me my child,
Since time will not leave me as I am
I am striving hard
To get the best of time
Before it gets the best of me.
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Blue Girls
Blue girls
of a blue generation,
hear my supplication,
I ask for love
do not give hurt.
.
Blue girls
of ancediary century,
they hacked my love,
and left me crying.
.
Blue girls
of times vanity
tell this to Cupid,
Persephone and Hades.
.
Tell them to give us money.
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The Virgen
The virgen,
Like unused engine,
Caught my eyes,
Intruded my heart
Into my house
And broke my heart.
.
No! not the girl
I thought I saw.
Not the one I caught
Not the one that
Fed me with sand.
.
For although she
Had a husband
She told me she
Was a virgen,
- a maiden.
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Must Pleasure be all Sensual?
Must all pleasure be sensual
And non intellectual?
.
When Lucifer fell
He made hell,
And from there,
Ruled the hearts of men
With a legion
Of demons at his call
What chance could a man stand?
.
If Christ had not died,
And as well, rise,
On whose side could we stand?
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