[singing] Select Zoyana.
Let them know.
The world is running, and we are spinning with it.
Your heart is beating.
Your tune I'm singing with it.
Ara ile, iru wonu.
Ara iwo, ara ede.
Ewa ba mi a n jo rin.
O rewa o se ti bele.
O ga, o sin sin sin pon le.
Ah.
E le yin t'ogeh.
Ko saya mi.
E so n ko saya mi.
Mo ti daya ni.
E so n ko saya mi.
Ko saya mi.
E so n ko saya mi.
Mo ti to ko ni.
E so n ko saya mi.
I dey fear to commit, to promise.
You dey fear to succeed, to be free.
We dey beat round the bush around the truth.
I dey hold, you dey pray with bloody fools.
Ko saya mi.
E so n ko saya mi.
Mo ti daya ni.
E so n ko saya mi.
Ko saya mi.
E so n ko saya mi.
Mo ti to ko ni.
E so n ko saya mi.
Ara ile.
Ka ma fe du f'ona.
Iruko wonu o be mi.
Omo iya agba.
Awon agba meji ni mo je.
Omo de to mo wo we.
Mo n ba agba je un.
Be bari mi ni gboro.
Be ba ma gi mi.
Be na okha si mi.
E pe mi la fe du f'ona.
A fe du f'ona.
Fe du f'ona oh.
Be bari mi ni gboro.
Be ba ma gi mi.
Be na okha si mi.
E pe mi la fe du f'ona.
Oro to wa ni ile.
Oro gbogbo wa ni.
Alawọ ara mọ ara wa.
Igbakugba wa ti kọ ja la.
Ibi o ba ara re.
Ah.
Jo se dada ni be.
Omo de to mo wo we.
O ma ba agba je un.
Ah.
Be bari mi ni gboro.
Be ba ma gi mi.
Be na okha si mi.
E pe mi la fe du f'ona.
Love, darling.
This foreign tongue I'm crooning in.
Been in much troubled areas.
When I say English rules the world, I mean that.
Every city in the human world.
Someone understands this word.
It's the rage that beats me.
You made a fist and it hit me.
It almost killed me.
It was a hand unknown that moved me.
Maybe I'm too close to be religious.
It's all so crazy to be just.
Maybe in the- Wa fun mi lagbaja.
Mo sunkun mo won ju.[singing] O nin sai loso dia.
O min bu ki je.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Olofi dakun jo.
Dakun jo.
Yeba delegon.
Yeba delegon.
Yeba delegon.
For as in war.
O gba ja oni ja ja.
On ja farada.
O ba ya wa da nu gbaga.
Wa le mi mo sa e da.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
[singing] Iye ra gbo ja o ni.
Iye ra gbo ja o ni oh.
Iye ra gbo ja o ni.
Your love is conflicting, I'm conflicted.
Your love language speaks to be different.
Let it love- You carry boat, you go yonder.
You say you no go, go.
Him brother tell am, "Oh, stand for your ground.
Make you no hurry for logo." Them they sell e, people throw away.
My brother no go.
The people them wey go river never return, oh.
Them say na mammy water carry everybody go.
For full moon, papa go farm, he never return, oh.
Them say na the forest, e carry am swallow.
Listen, boy, life no balance at all, oh.
You go place you no know, you no go return, oh.
But he feeling true, him heart they beat for the road, oh.
Him fate na to follow them, follow journey go, ah.
Ah, ah.
Wetin I think I become, ah.
Ah, ah.
Na illusion them they sell you so, ah.
But he look forward, him look out.
No other place to go.
He carry few belongings, reluctantly follow go.
For this life we they, the thing you do, you know.
E better to go reach the place you find how e dey, oh.
Once upon a long lost time, I'm not born a saint.
Memories no there to shape my thoughts.
No regret, no pain.
And all the ladies see me, say my ovaries spit a little baby.
Wetin my mama say? "And everybody, they like you, Ruki." Mama tell me wetin my papa say.
When everybody, they work for me for free, I frown, them shed the tears.
E dey go on.
Life, e dey go on.
I crawl, I waka.
I say, "Papa." E dey go on.
Life wheel e dey turn, dey go on.
I run, I brawl.
For school, for mosque.
When I just be little boy, I go hear my kin.
Imagine the fate of the world e dey for my hand.
[singing] You get the time, oh, ire.
Mo wa ju mo ge ire de.
Kijo mo le mo dun ta ka sufe.
O dun mo mi oh.
O dun mo mi oh.
O dun mo mi oh.
O dun mo mi oh.
Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Ife re sinmi o tin n kan. Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Ife re sinmi o tin n kan. Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Ore dakan ro ko to lo.
Mo ta ara ka mo ṣubu dinto kon o n so.
Ya[singing] Ęsìn ò bá ni, ìwà ò lá ni.
Ohun tó wù ní lòun wá ni.
Ore dagun, rogo tó lọ.
Mo dàrá ka mo ṣubú kí n tó mọ ohun mo ń sọ.
Yàrá gọ̀rọ́, lọ̀rà fesì.
Ęsìn ò bá ni, ìwà ò lá ni.
Ohun tó wù ní lòun wá ni.
Ko fi ẹ̀yín vo òwò ìrèé.
Ó wà ju òun gidi dé.
[singing] Ìṣanlẹ̀, komi, síta.
Fámílẹ̀ wù yá, tẹ́mi lọ́rùn pa. Ẹni yán lásán ni mo jẹ, mo fuyẹ́ bí pépà.
Ìjìjà lọ́dọ̀, ó gbé mi lọ sóko.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, ó wú lọ́kọ.
Gbé mi lọ síbí tọkọ.
Ó gàtà, ó gágùtà.
Ó lọ́pàápàá, rí bàtáṣà.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, ó wú lọ́kọ.
Gbé mi lọ bí mo ń lọ.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, fún mi lọkọ.
Ó kú ní mẹ́ta dé bí tí mo ń lọ.
[singing] Ẹ̀mi ni mọ́lẹ̀, mo lọ́kun-un ọ̀bọlọ́.
Mo fàá lẹ́wu yá, mo tẹ́ lórùn pa. Ẹni yán lásán ni ò jẹ, ó wíwo bí ẹ̀san.
Ẹ̀mi ni jìjùjà lọ́dọ̀, ó gbọ́ngáran lọ sóko.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, ó wú lọ́kọ.
Gbé mi lọ síbí tọkọ.
Ó gàtà, ó gágùtà.
Ó lọ́pàápàá, rí bàtáṣà.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, ó wú lọ́kọ.
Gbé mi lọ bí mo ń lọ.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, fún mi lọkọ.
Ó kú ní mẹ́ta dé bí tí mo ń lọ.
[singing] Ìwà ò lò bí òrèé.
Ó wà kúrò sì máa dùn wa.
[screaming] Ẹni tó ní ṣúù kí i ṣe yàn kékeré.
Ó wà kúrò sì máa gòkè.
Ó wà ṣubù dáńfé, ó máa géyìí sí ẹ.
ẹ́.
Ó bá ṣé tì ẹ, ó máa dẹrù fún ẹ.
ẹ̀ ẹ́.
Ọ̀rá rẹ wá jú ọmọ ọba, ẹ máa súre dàgbà o.
Ọ̀ní kò ṣe òyẹ́rẹ́, ọ̀rá ṣe, ẹ máa súre dàgbà o. Oh, ọ̀dọ́ kò ní kú, ṣíbí ọdẹ o.
Ọ̀rá rẹ wá jú ọmọ mi, ẹ máa súre dàgbà o.
[singing] Ìwà ò lò bí òrèé.
Ọmọ ọdẹ ò kú, ó sì máa dàgbà.
Ṣọ̀rá gùnjà, ṣọ̀rá gbẹ́gbẹ́gbẹ́gbẹ́.
Ohun tí o tó ó sì máa pọ̀.
[singing] Baba òún gbọ́n, o dáji nìyẹn o. Omo mi òún gbọ́n, omo mi òún gbọ́n.
Ẹni bá tó lọ́la, tí kò dùn mo, o máa dùn omo mi òún gbọ́n.
[singing] Oh, yọ̀gẹ́.
Oh, oh yọ̀gẹ́.
Oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́.
Omo mi òún gbọ́n.
Ẹni bá tó lọ́la, tí kò dùn mo, o máa dùn omo mi òún gbọ́n.
Omo mi òún gbọ́n.
Ẹni bá tó lọ́la, tí kò dùn mo, o máa dùn omo mi òún gbọ́n.
[singing] Oh, ara rẹ.
Oh, ara rẹ.
Oh, ibori gbọ̀nṣà.
Oh, jẹ́gà.
Oh, mo.
Oh, mo.
Ah, ara rẹ.
Ara rẹ.
Ara rẹ.
[outro jingle][singing] I was born with greed and evil seed.
It's in my flesh.
I trust only me and too blind to see.
Pretending to care.
It's the light at the end of the tunnel.
It's the promise of heaven on earth.
I'm so lost in the current, in the tides and the waves and the torrent.
Let's make love.
Let time pass us by.
Let's make love.
Our love, our refine.
[instrumental music] You see love ain't cheap and freedom ain't free.
We learn, we stand, we rise, and we fall.
It's the light at the end of the tunnel.
It's the promise of heaven on earth.
This love from the very beginning, na jaboo.
I dey for you, you dey for me like the sun and the earth.
And this the kind of responsibility na for few.
We carry our matter, our go ahead.
If na the days of our fore-forefathers, the way we dey live, them go call us Messiah like Amadioha, like Esu, Ogo, and Oya.
But I be black man.
I bend the whole town to impress some crazy clown wey dey spread the hate around.
Black man, I own the whole town to impress some silly clown wey dey spread the hate around.
I for get to care for my own.
I carry the problem of the world.
But I no get to solve am for my own.
I dey choke, I dey brag, I dey ball.
Na society dey enforce the rule.
But na woman dey dictate the rule.
Na wetin man go do.
Na to break the rules but for good.
And you be black woman, you wear your pain like armor.
You take your luck and you lock up.
You say, "Na man get the fuck up." Black woman, you get the whole town.
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[singing] Select Zoyana.
Let them know.
The world is running, and we are spinning with it.
Your heart is beating.
Your tune I'm singing with it.
Ara ile, iru wonu.
Ara iwo, ara ede.
Ewa ba mi a n jo rin.
O rewa o se ti bele.
O ga, o sin sin sin pon le.
Ah.
E le yin t'ogeh.
Ko saya mi.
E so n ko saya mi.
Mo ti daya ni.
E so n ko saya mi.
Ko saya mi.
E so n ko saya mi.
Mo ti to ko ni.
E so n ko saya mi.
I dey fear to commit, to promise.
You dey fear to succeed, to be free.
We dey beat round the bush around the truth.
I dey hold, you dey pray with bloody fools.
Ko saya mi.
E so n ko saya mi.
Mo ti daya ni.
E so n ko saya mi.
Ko saya mi.
E so n ko saya mi.
Mo ti to ko ni.
E so n ko saya mi.
Ara ile.
Ka ma fe du f'ona.
Iruko wonu o be mi.
Omo iya agba.
Awon agba meji ni mo je.
Omo de to mo wo we.
Mo n ba agba je un.
Be bari mi ni gboro.
Be ba ma gi mi.
Be na okha si mi.
E pe mi la fe du f'ona.
A fe du f'ona.
Fe du f'ona oh.
Be bari mi ni gboro.
Be ba ma gi mi.
Be na okha si mi.
E pe mi la fe du f'ona.
Oro to wa ni ile.
Oro gbogbo wa ni.
Alawọ ara mọ ara wa.
Igbakugba wa ti kọ ja la.
Ibi o ba ara re.
Ah.
Jo se dada ni be.
Omo de to mo wo we.
O ma ba agba je un.
Ah.
Be bari mi ni gboro.
Be ba ma gi mi.
Be na okha si mi.
E pe mi la fe du f'ona.
Love, darling.
This foreign tongue I'm crooning in.
Been in much troubled areas.
When I say English rules the world, I mean that.
Every city in the human world.
Someone understands this word.
It's the rage that beats me.
You made a fist and it hit me.
It almost killed me.
It was a hand unknown that moved me.
Maybe I'm too close to be religious.
It's all so crazy to be just.
Maybe in the- Wa fun mi lagbaja.
Mo sunkun mo won ju.[singing] O nin sai loso dia.
O min bu ki je.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Olofi dakun jo.
Dakun jo.
Yeba delegon.
Yeba delegon.
Yeba delegon.
For as in war.
O gba ja oni ja ja.
On ja farada.
O ba ya wa da nu gbaga.
Wa le mi mo sa e da.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
[singing] Iye ra gbo ja o ni.
Iye ra gbo ja o ni oh.
Iye ra gbo ja o ni.
Your love is conflicting, I'm conflicted.
Your love language speaks to be different.
Let it love- You carry boat, you go yonder.
You say you no go, go.
Him brother tell am, "Oh, stand for your ground.
Make you no hurry for logo." Them they sell e, people throw away.
My brother no go.
The people them wey go river never return, oh.
Them say na mammy water carry everybody go.
For full moon, papa go farm, he never return, oh.
Them say na the forest, e carry am swallow.
Listen, boy, life no balance at all, oh.
You go place you no know, you no go return, oh.
But he feeling true, him heart they beat for the road, oh.
Him fate na to follow them, follow journey go, ah.
Ah, ah.
Wetin I think I become, ah.
Ah, ah.
Na illusion them they sell you so, ah.
But he look forward, him look out.
No other place to go.
He carry few belongings, reluctantly follow go.
For this life we they, the thing you do, you know.
E better to go reach the place you find how e dey, oh.
Once upon a long lost time, I'm not born a saint.
Memories no there to shape my thoughts.
No regret, no pain.
And all the ladies see me, say my ovaries spit a little baby.
Wetin my mama say? "And everybody, they like you, Ruki." Mama tell me wetin my papa say.
When everybody, they work for me for free, I frown, them shed the tears.
E dey go on.
Life, e dey go on.
I crawl, I waka.
I say, "Papa." E dey go on.
Life wheel e dey turn, dey go on.
I run, I brawl.
For school, for mosque.
When I just be little boy, I go hear my kin.
Imagine the fate of the world e dey for my hand.
[singing] You get the time, oh, ire.
Mo wa ju mo ge ire de.
Kijo mo le mo dun ta ka sufe.
O dun mo mi oh.
O dun mo mi oh.
O dun mo mi oh.
O dun mo mi oh.
Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Ife re sinmi o tin n kan. Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Ife re sinmi o tin n kan. Meji meji laga, eh oh.
Ore dakan ro ko to lo.
Mo ta ara ka mo ṣubu dinto kon o n so.
Ya[singing] Ęsìn ò bá ni, ìwà ò lá ni.
Ohun tó wù ní lòun wá ni.
Ore dagun, rogo tó lọ.
Mo dàrá ka mo ṣubú kí n tó mọ ohun mo ń sọ.
Yàrá gọ̀rọ́, lọ̀rà fesì.
Ęsìn ò bá ni, ìwà ò lá ni.
Ohun tó wù ní lòun wá ni.
Ko fi ẹ̀yín vo òwò ìrèé.
Ó wà ju òun gidi dé.
[singing] Ìṣanlẹ̀, komi, síta.
Fámílẹ̀ wù yá, tẹ́mi lọ́rùn pa. Ẹni yán lásán ni mo jẹ, mo fuyẹ́ bí pépà.
Ìjìjà lọ́dọ̀, ó gbé mi lọ sóko.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, ó wú lọ́kọ.
Gbé mi lọ síbí tọkọ.
Ó gàtà, ó gágùtà.
Ó lọ́pàápàá, rí bàtáṣà.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, ó wú lọ́kọ.
Gbé mi lọ bí mo ń lọ.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, fún mi lọkọ.
Ó kú ní mẹ́ta dé bí tí mo ń lọ.
[singing] Ẹ̀mi ni mọ́lẹ̀, mo lọ́kun-un ọ̀bọlọ́.
Mo fàá lẹ́wu yá, mo tẹ́ lórùn pa. Ẹni yán lásán ni ò jẹ, ó wíwo bí ẹ̀san.
Ẹ̀mi ni jìjùjà lọ́dọ̀, ó gbọ́ngáran lọ sóko.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, ó wú lọ́kọ.
Gbé mi lọ síbí tọkọ.
Ó gàtà, ó gágùtà.
Ó lọ́pàápàá, rí bàtáṣà.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, ó wú lọ́kọ.
Gbé mi lọ bí mo ń lọ.
Ẹ dun ọkọ, fún mi lọkọ.
Ó kú ní mẹ́ta dé bí tí mo ń lọ.
[singing] Ìwà ò lò bí òrèé.
Ó wà kúrò sì máa dùn wa.
[screaming] Ẹni tó ní ṣúù kí i ṣe yàn kékeré.
Ó wà kúrò sì máa gòkè.
Ó wà ṣubù dáńfé, ó máa géyìí sí ẹ.
ẹ́.
Ó bá ṣé tì ẹ, ó máa dẹrù fún ẹ.
ẹ̀ ẹ́.
Ọ̀rá rẹ wá jú ọmọ ọba, ẹ máa súre dàgbà o.
Ọ̀ní kò ṣe òyẹ́rẹ́, ọ̀rá ṣe, ẹ máa súre dàgbà o. Oh, ọ̀dọ́ kò ní kú, ṣíbí ọdẹ o.
Ọ̀rá rẹ wá jú ọmọ mi, ẹ máa súre dàgbà o.
[singing] Ìwà ò lò bí òrèé.
Ọmọ ọdẹ ò kú, ó sì máa dàgbà.
Ṣọ̀rá gùnjà, ṣọ̀rá gbẹ́gbẹ́gbẹ́gbẹ́.
Ohun tí o tó ó sì máa pọ̀.
[singing] Baba òún gbọ́n, o dáji nìyẹn o. Omo mi òún gbọ́n, omo mi òún gbọ́n.
Ẹni bá tó lọ́la, tí kò dùn mo, o máa dùn omo mi òún gbọ́n.
[singing] Oh, yọ̀gẹ́.
Oh, oh yọ̀gẹ́.
Oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́, oh yọ̀wẹ́.
Omo mi òún gbọ́n.
Ẹni bá tó lọ́la, tí kò dùn mo, o máa dùn omo mi òún gbọ́n.
Omo mi òún gbọ́n.
Ẹni bá tó lọ́la, tí kò dùn mo, o máa dùn omo mi òún gbọ́n.
[singing] Oh, ara rẹ.
Oh, ara rẹ.
Oh, ibori gbọ̀nṣà.
Oh, jẹ́gà.
Oh, mo.
Oh, mo.
Ah, ara rẹ.
Ara rẹ.
Ara rẹ.
[outro jingle][singing] I was born with greed and evil seed.
It's in my flesh.
I trust only me and too blind to see.
Pretending to care.
It's the light at the end of the tunnel.
It's the promise of heaven on earth.
I'm so lost in the current, in the tides and the waves and the torrent.
Let's make love.
Let time pass us by.
Let's make love.
Our love, our refine.
[instrumental music] You see love ain't cheap and freedom ain't free.
We learn, we stand, we rise, and we fall.
It's the light at the end of the tunnel.
It's the promise of heaven on earth.
This love from the very beginning, na jaboo.
I dey for you, you dey for me like the sun and the earth.
And this the kind of responsibility na for few.
We carry our matter, our go ahead.
If na the days of our fore-forefathers, the way we dey live, them go call us Messiah like Amadioha, like Esu, Ogo, and Oya.
But I be black man.
I bend the whole town to impress some crazy clown wey dey spread the hate around.
Black man, I own the whole town to impress some silly clown wey dey spread the hate around.
I for get to care for my own.
I carry the problem of the world.
But I no get to solve am for my own.
I dey choke, I dey brag, I dey ball.
Na society dey enforce the rule.
But na woman dey dictate the rule.
Na wetin man go do.
Na to break the rules but for good.
And you be black woman, you wear your pain like armor.
You take your luck and you lock up.
You say, "Na man get the fuck up." Black woman, you get the whole town.