Текст песни: Spoken Water + перевод

Yo gather round

E’rybody…yo, you, you e’rybody gather round

E’rybody gather round as I pass words

To unlock your mind

So now I’m on the run

Cos of the damage I did

I left another family in tragedy

That’s why I had to flee

And now they shutting down the city

What started with mama packing foodstuff

You know the good stuff

Has ended in this running in the woods stuff

The wet leaves give my face a beating

I ran like I was competing

Almost running short of breath

And the route I took

Was one I sort of guessed

Well, as long as I ain’t got arrested

I left my belongings

I don’t care for the money

Just glad I have my life in check

No flaming tyres hung around the neck

No slugs to the chest

Please God, no slugs to the chest

I know her family won’t rest

Unless they got their pound of flesh

So I pondered on my options

And in my mind the memories are tossed in

I remember my cousin Austin Peterside

Who carries logs for a saw mill by the riverside

And he decides

You go need to hide for village

Till this thing subsides

There was no road so we had to take a boat

And then the tide raise enormously

With no life jacket I was praying I ain’t forced to swim

But I took it in stride

Cos come he’ll or high water

I’m gonna survive

But then like Jonah

I fell into the water… a loner a loner a loner

Kicking at the abyss

I was at the bottom screaming at the top of my lungs

Water drowning up my insides

Ain’t that a life

A boat had to be capsized

For me to be baptized

Ain’t that a life

I was gasping for air

I thought u had one life to live

But God grant me a pair

I was on the stairs

And then an angel told me it was just a scare

I woke up and I was here…

But where!!!

A village in the oil rivers

No politicians and no deceivers

The people are the leaders

The elders are the judges

Youths who in truth

Could barely speak a word of English

Were the law

They found me in the shore

I spoke their dialect…

And that’s the only reason I ain’t died yet

Chairman of the youths

Gave me clothe and shelter

To the surprise of his tribe

And his younger brother

Who said I had the eyes of a spy

He was high so they gave him the floor

You know the house rules

You can say what you want

If your house rules

I just stood there like a fool

Covered in drool

Looking at a youth covered in jewels

As he suggests that I’m stripped

And covered in fuel

And set ablaze

I was amazed

But then the elders disagreed

Saying (hih hih) na Itsekiri

When did we start killing we

So now I’m with the people

And we are the government

I rose to prominence

I was never in the bench

I went on missions

I’ve stopped work at flow stations

To provoke settlements

This little ghetto nation

I showed them how to operate their ammunitions

They used to test the arms

On each others arms

Confident that their charms

Will prevent any harms

But now they test their bullet proof

On tree barks

They got me to thank for that

I had a big diesel tank for that

And all I had to do was sell it

See in these parts that’s the easy part

Why you think it’s called DIESEL

People DIE tryna SELL it

I was a felon

Hanging guns around like necklace

Walking reckless… huh

They took me to a native doctor

To turn me to a super hero

Skin made of armour

Ate as much alligator pepper you can count

For Odidi and shoot and bounce

He picks the rocks and rolls

And sings incantations

Cuts me with the razor

Place the black powder

I balled up a fist and was feeling black power

Black soap, dirty water in the dark shower

Scrub me clean with some shrubs at a dark hour

To remove the blood of the sacrifice

I had to bathe at night

Every oath was made at night

Now I’m feeling safe at fights

I paid the price

So as not to fumble

I played the humble

After all life is a jungle

I often go out late tho

Drinking with the locals

(You hear my voice)

Throat full with home brew

More in my tumbler

But I never took a tumble

I was very watchful

Cos it’s wise to watch fools

Late nights it’s was always fun

See as the ladies come by the boat load

From coast to coast

Expatriates drinking fish pepper soup

Ordering an extra plate

Then I see the kind o' girl I wanna date

I was quick to relate before it was late

She said she was a youth corper

I said she was mine to beholden

And she was golden

Led by my silver tongue

To do the wrong thing

It was after wards that I saw her diamond ring

She is to be wed to the brother

Who is not my friend

After the discovery I fled

Knowing if I’m found I’d be dead

Heck!

I slept in a cabin in a ship wreck

Many clicks west

I awoke with a machete on my neck

Deep in the night

Beat up and dragged along the shore

By a company of four

With the instructions… don't you dare bring him back alive

How am I to survive

My eyes covered in blood

I raise my head up when I see a chance

There was nothing sleek

With how I advanced the creek

No time I’m tryna sneak

I dove in the river on a whim

During my time here I had learned how to swim

They woulda followed me if I wasn’t badly injured

They had their little speed boats with engines

No way he’d survive the river in that think fog

(He's dead)

I drifted along the big still river

Loooking across the spread of lights

Along the banks

With nothing in my heart but thanks

Now all i need is a blood bank