Текст песни: Beauty for Ashes + перевод

I don’t wanna walk down this road

Fog and dust cast a fear unknown

A groan explodes as my grief implodes

My heart got pierced by a love withdrawn

Tell me you love me just one more time

See the amount of pain in that previous line

Don’t tell me you understand it, just let me be

Til my siblings and I can find that sweet harmony

I saw peace and joy

You were at peace and were filled with so much joy

You came and we noticed that you got a new phone

Samsung Galaxies could’t come close to that mode of technology

I must amit, we lost touch a few days before you got your phone

Mine had issues at the time and I remember Alex told me you called home

You were gonna cook right after work right?

Funny how life works… strange winds blew you out of sight but not out of mind

You gifted us with your presence and that in itself redefined elegance

You gifted me with wisdom that saw me through my adolescence

October 2017 a month that gave us pure happiness

Luji and Kuki’s wedding, a union that made us happy, yes

I wanted to have a show right before you left the country just so that you

could see what I’ve become

But it couldn’t happen. so we agreed when we both said next time. another time

But where’s another time?

I’ve become a watchman, looking at different watches in search of another time.

Good morning, you’re welcome. Let’s work on timing from now on

That was your last message to me

Men aren’t supposed to cry

I believed that lie

So I stored up the hurt

Drunk off my pain but no whiskey could swiftly get rid of the hurt

Sad music is just sad music, that’s my conclusion

That song, how could you leave us didn’t offer me a solution

I check my phone every now and then hoping that its not reality

You’re like poetry, obviously, I just wanted you to be proud of me

Every tear in my eye could testify, how I denied, how I asked why

How I feared for the day I would lose you

The day you would lose me

So I did all I could to make sure it never happened;

I prayed for you just as you did for me

Because you were love and I was loved

I find comfort in not wishing I said I love you because I did.

But I couldn’t stop the Lord from getting you a phone and a new number

Hence, you didn’t know who was calling when you picked up His call

I lost too many close people and I was afraid of losing more so I just let go

Who hid the keys?

Who has the keys?

What prison is she in?

Please, I need to see her, tell me, what are the visiting hours?

Who is this cardiac?

Mr. Officer why are you quiet?

All my life I have kept myself from crime cause I feared and hated prisons

I was told Cardiac arrested her

The gel in your hair got me aware of a jail that imprisoned her

A kiss repealed, please refill my hope and say «Peace Be Still»

All this pain is deep and real, can you feel my Archilles Heel?

Your heart is what I loved the most about you

And it happened to be the organ that left many an orphan

You weren’t supposed to leave.wait.You weren’t supposed to leave. yet

God, Where are you?

Don’t make me question your existence

Help me not lose faith where are you?

My heart bleeds red

My soul concedes dread

Pain is in bed, it’s embedded, I feel next to dead

You’re in control even if we can’t see it

But all this got me asking, where are you?

This burden is too heavy, where are you?

I need you.

Then you said to me;

«Bupe, you lived in a castle of broken promises

You never owned the premises, last time I checked, you were renting

But who have you been letting spit that deceit in your system?

Your window pane got cracked prisms

That freed you from glass prisons

Now fleeting rhythm is your repeating reason from your drifting seasons

You have drifted away from me

But no one ever succesfully dealt with grief alone, lonely

When Jesus felt alone on the cross, He covered all your hopelessness

The sorrow of the past is past, I tell you there is hope

No need to hang onto those tears, no need to envelope them

Come to me

Let me heal you.»

But I said there would be no need to heal me if you kept this pain here from me

And He said, «there would no here if my Son didn’t go through pain for you

Have you forgotten?

When my son hang on a tree from transgressions he didn’t commit

Have you forgotten?

How an all powerful God withheld his emotion from altering with purpose

If I did it, you should too.»

So now, I too have chosen to

Comforter here’s my heart, please do what you want to do

I thank you God for giving us the opportunity to feel your love through a human

A woman that was after your heart, humble and true

It’s times like this I know that this world is but a temporary home

I used to be alone, pain reigned for long, but it’s time to be dethroned

See, God moulds us in different ways, though painful still I give you praise

Console those who mourn in Zion, give them beauty for ashes

The oil of joy for mourning

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness

That they may be called trees of righteousness

The planting of the Lord that He may be glorified

Well ma' your children are grown

Elijah, Christina Aiden are growing too.

Alex and Luji just keep on pushing, doing what men do

I’m proud of who Martina is becoming, we owe that much to you

Trusting Emmanuel and Joseph, in no time, will follow through

Your sisters have been strong for us only by God have they been able to

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, you will rise in new beauty, mum, we love you.