Light Ya Faya

by Mottanni

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The cry of a young child as he grows and discovers the world.
Those he looked and respected as elders look so different in his eyes
What does he have to do in order to survive?

lyrics

There are days in my life.
When i feel like, there is a knife.
Stuck to my throat, I just can’t breathe.
The pain so agonizing, never so brief
No matter how hard I try to get relieve.
I still find it hard;
I feel trapped like eve.

Somedays no matter how hard I try
To hold to my believe
In the dream I conceived
And for the world i'd love
To create for me When I was just five
But I look around I still want to grief

When those I looked up to and hailed as elders turn to behave like beef
And the future, the told me I was,
they have become its thieves.
The promises they made to me they fail to give.
I feel like taking a dive,
Building a hive
So, I can protect me and just live my life

Sometimes I just don’t want to live.
Most times i just don’t want to move.
I am tempted to give up and end this strive.
For the thrive I toiled for seem so looked in a cave

But I hold on
A no be slave.
A go continue for work,
till I receive.
All this bagandeh dem
A no go leave am make dem drive, me
A no be naïve.
The only way to achieve.
Is to hold on to my believe.
Continue to the strive.
One day, my dream go come alive.

Though you burn the bridges
You think I would use to my skies
You forget , You are helping me to develop wings
So you can fly to the stars
Though you burn my huts crafted with a breath of my spirit, my sweat
I thank you
For now I see, the sky scrappers
So I can build better twice

I'll Dream
I'll Believe
I'll Think
I'll Work
And Achieve

Breathe Breathe
Light my Fire
Mottanni
Light my Fire

Mottanni, 2023