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from meaning, beyond definition, lyrics
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REVOLUTION
Ola Onabule © 1997
Is that a revolution ?
If I am just what I am
If I am just who I am
With no message or a plan
Is that a revolution ?
If I’m neither them nor you
If I’m neither old nor new
not alone not in a crew
And if I say what I want,
Mean what I say
Want what I mean to be heard
Is that a revolution ?
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INNER CITY DARK TAN
Ola Onabule © 1997
I Know where you’ve been, I’ve been there before
I know that it’s wrong, but you gotta be strong
It’s never too late, to bring down the walls
You can’t take the weight, they stand where you fall
I know it could be better
I hope it’s getting better
I think I saw, I know I saw a
Smile on the face of a dark man
With inner city dark tan
You ain’t gonna prove, Your more than a groove
So what is the use, has nothing, can’t loose
They look at your face, But don’t wanna see
Your life ain’t a race, to win or to be
I know it could be better
I hope it’s getting better
I think I saw, I know I saw a
Don’t just stand in line, don’t you fall behind
Picture you doing better than you ought to when you can
See you dressed in style, See you doing fine
Picture you doing better than you ought to with a tan
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YOU SUMMARISE
Ola Onabule © 1997
You made a believer out of me
what I know of love is you
Shielding me from adversity
So much faith in all I do
You never change with seasons,
You never change with seasons girl
You never need a reason,
And you’re so damn selfless with your love
I’m never left a guessin’
Ain’t no pondering wandering for this boy
Though I can’t be exact, what I mean is
You summarise what love means to me baby
And I’m so optimised for your needs my darling
And now that I found my way to you
All other mystery is clear
Each time you complete me you bring more
Than there’s life enough to share
And words can never measure
All the pleasure that you bring me girl
Our love is like a treasure
Even gods kneel down and pray for
And in the bigger picture
Ain’t no changing re-arranging for this boy
Ad lib. out: don’t you know there ain’t no dissertation,ain’t no composition, ain’t no revelations can change the way I feel
Ain’t no
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ALL FOR YOU
Ola Onabule © 1997
I’m allergic to pain and lies
They ain’t moving in on our lives
Me you can trust, so don’t say you weren’t told
I ain’t wasting no precious time
What I’m saying will curve a line
Do what you must, don’t think me too bold
I’ve no face of an infinite man, here I am
I’ll be wrong to make it right
So love will last another night
What I got's all for you
That s the truth, you know that it’s the truth
I’m ascending when you’re insight
Keep delighting my inner light
Then glow as you feel
You lead me to know
Say that you will girl, glow as you feel girl, my word is real girl
Don’t just stand there thinking ‘bout it
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IT’S NEVER OVER
Ola Onabule ©1997
Here we are again, how can we pretend
We never will learn, How can we learn
What I think of you, and you want me to do
It’s too much to learn, there’s no time to learn
No one wants to pay
Each one wants a say
So we wait, till the hate
Spends what we save
It’s never over, the war so wild and bitter
We cling to one another, In need of a friend
Sometimes its clearer, the pain is lost in pleasure
Though peace can’t last forever it never will end
Destitute again, lost in what we gain
We know what to learn, So what could we learn
No chance of a space, living for our waste
Find it and learn, it’s easy to learn
I believe in a time when we
Will learn to live in harmony
But will anyone live to see,
Whether we, did achieve,
All the peace we so needed
To build something real of a dream
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LOVE WILL COME BACK
Ola Onabule © 1997
If you give love, then it comes back to you
When it comes back to you, it will never go away
If you have a dream, hold it close to you
I know this much is true, it will never slip away
You may not see the connection
Between the deed and destiny
There’s meaning beyond definition
You know you must, so you will, you do, then you are
Do do do do ... Love will come back to you
Do do do do ... Love will come back to you
If you do wrong, and don’t repair the wound
It marks a stain on you that may never fade away
If you find a smile, within the pain and blue
It’s light reflects on you brighter than the light of day
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AFRICAN SUN
Ola Onabule © 1997
Once a man with a dream of a life for himself and his family
Travelled far, travelled rough, travelled light, to a place of inequity
Contending on his own, Surviving every battle for his soul
One day his going home, till then he’ll do the best he can.
Building hope, feeling doubt
Needing love, but strong with out
How hearts burn, just to stand
Proud under African sun
Now a man who is drained of all reason and all rationality
Stays applied to the course though he knows it has no functionality
While on his hands and knees, deflecting every thought of what is true
In every pain he sees, reaffirmation of his dues
He’ll make this thing, confound their whims
propel his life towards the brink
He’ll wear a crown to hide the frown
return to find nothing grows under Africa’s sun
but sure they’ll be singing
Welcome home African son
ile labo simi ise re
CHORUSES OUT
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HOW
Ola Onabule © 1997
How in my life can I make make most things right
When I suffer the plight of a simple man
I hold the key for the ones yet to come
But each way that it turns there’s no paradise
We’ll take you to the tree that’s been burning
brightly since the world has been turning
What you need to know is in the tree
The tree of life
Some will take life far from those who need it
Them you must discern ‘cause this has meaning
What you need to know is form the tree
The key of life
Some say one day love is bound to return
To repair wrongs we’ve done, For our human gain
How will we know what we lose is the pain
If we no longer feel in our human way
We’ll take you to the tree that’s been burning
brightly since the world has been turning
What you need to know is in the tree
The tree of life
Some will take life far from those who need it
Them you must discern ‘cause this has meaning
What you need to know is form thto
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DON’T EVER THINK.
Ola Onabule © 1997
You wanna ride down with the guys from below
You’d better trade up on your soul
You’ll need to sound that exotic and cool
That’s all the rage round L.A. Pools
You’re on the list so all your luck is in town
You might just win a leather suit
and when they’re done just leave your mind on the ground
It ain’t gonna get much better use
If you mean what you do, Put your pride on the shelf
right next to losersville ashtray
If the game packs a gun, turn it round on yourself
just watch the readies roll your way
Don’t ever think we don’t hear you, we understand you got a plan
Don’t ever think we don’t see you, not through that door,
'coz we’d hear you more and more
When speaking lines no need to seem in the mood
Ain’t no one listening any way
Serve up the highlights on a bed of fast food
They’ll never make the last entree
If you tune in at nine things are real and despair
That stuff just never happens here
So get back to the rh
She’s gonna make it everywhere
Every time I hear it, just seems like such a waste
a victim moans I love you from a pretty empty face.
All the doors that opened are shut by closing minds
There ain’t no point in searching, for what ain’t yours to find
AD LIB. OUT
You got to know we love you more, it’s just that you ain’t what we’re looking for...
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ANYONE
Ola Onabule ©1997
You Please, appease, appeal to feel
Still care, heart bare, prepared to kneel
Just say what's right, And be what might
But someone's moving way ahead
You ain’t in the game
Till you learn to say
Don’t wanna be anyone, But I’m gonna be someone
So how can anybody change the course of destiny
When the deal is done, I’m aiming to reach the sun
So How could anybody, hope to steal that hope away from me
Hunted, hunting, so far from home
Lesson, listen, You’re not alone
Though need has grown, You live unknown
And someone's moving way ahead
You ain’t in the game
Till you learn to say
It’s the only life I live, So I,m gonna live it right
Since there ain’t no second chance to
It’s the only road I know
and it leads me where my soul begins,
To believe again
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YOU WILL BE...
Ola Onabule © 1997
You will be the one I know you will
Be the one who can fulfil
All the hopes I had of the one who’d be the one
You will know just what I’d thought
had come true when you were brought
Here by fate and prayer, no doubt or fear had changed what I yearned for
If you’ll belong, know I’ll be strong
And we’ll be close, life had meaning the most,
When I dreamt of you close, No one soul could oppose
What I’d known all my life of love, there is no life without love
So lets live this time for love, So when time ends
Our love will live in those we’ve made of love.
SOLO
My heart feels much more than words
I have scribed in rhyme and verse
life with you inspire me to a higher words change the meaning of
If you’ll belong, know I’ll be strong
And we’ll be close, life had meaning the most,
When I dreamt of you close, No one soul could oppose
What I’d known all my life of love, there is no life without love
So lets live this time for love, So when time end
Our love will in those we’ve made of love.
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TIME
Ola Onabule © 1997
Time, time is the only thief of time
Constantly preying on my mind
I’m wary of whiling away my time
Time, patient and biding all it’s time
It has no end though I’ve no time
for worry of whiling away my time.
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DON’T LIVE IN ANGER
Ola Onabule © 1997
VERSE 1
I have seen your sacrifice, in a world as cold as ice
All your trial for survival, all your struggle to be equal
I am in on what it’s like, so denied of what is right
Don’t be broken, spirit beaten,
Just put faith in the power of truth like a phoenix to rise so high
Till your wings can touch the sky
Ain’t no need to sell your soul
Let love lead the way, but until the day
CHORUS
Don’t live in anger, and make love a stranger
Living under pressure, don’t live in anger
VERSE 2
If you see a brother down, lend a hand to bring him round
Let him know you care about him, Give him pride and sense of being
Treat a sister with respect, in the way that you’d expect
To be treated by another
Who has faith in the power of truth like a phoenix to rise beyond
All that breaks the human bond
Ain’t no better story told
Let love lead the way, but until the day
CHORUS
MID 8
Don’t listen to the pain
Inside there’s a stable voice
Beyond the dire insane
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YOU DON’T KNOW
Ola Onabule © 1997
I can do most anything, once I’ve broken free of you
I’m no longer subject to the, fear of losing, being lonely
You have wielded over me,
Those little pleasures that you used to give
Trapped me like a child in fear, playing on my sensitivity
You don’t know what loves about yeah
but I have found the greatest clue
Life is love and love is beauty, so what happened to you
I have compromised myself, you have raped the virgin mind
years of laughter at the cost of, so much pain so much sorrow
You don’t know what loves about yeah
but I have found the greatest clue
Life is love and love is beauty, so what happened to you
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