OUT THERE
©1996 Ola Onabule & Karlos Edwards

Standing at the top, looking down below
Flashing what you got like I ain't got hope
Saying what you feel, Just don’t give a damn
Taking what is real from a desperate man

There’s always something out there
Waiting to find you
There’s always some thing out there
But you just don’t realise
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HEARTBREAK GHETTO
©1999 Ola Onabule

Verse 1
If I were you and you were me
I would be good to me
And ever so true to me
But you’re never good to me

Seems to me you got some nerve
Faking your empathy
A flash of humanity
But it ain’t for the good of me

You say in the right , don’t got no rights 
not necessarily
But I know
 Got no rights has got to fight  cos I - I - I

Can’t let you do what you’ve done best 
Building your heart break ghetto
Wont let you do what you’ve done best 
Building your heart break ghetto!

Tho' I’m blind I feel the tears
Of losing my dignity
The things that you do to me
Will burn for eternity

I am honed, I stand prepared
To find all the good in you
The best you can hope to do 
Is all that I’ve been to you 

Choruses Out
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THE PICTURE
© 1999 Ola Onabule

I count the lives and all the years 
That have faded in struggle 
And settled on generations
Who neither love nor hate

And while we dream indifferent fears
Truth is caught in the middle
With little right and so much wrong 
How will we change our fate
 
Every new arrival to the storm
Fights a little less to make things normal
So yet another brother falls
I for one don’t wanna go that way
Here I stand my ground so here I stay
There’ll be no fuss or frettin' when destiny calls

I can see the picture, Not the way you paint it 
And you can tell your story, It ain’t nothing like I heard it 
I’m holding out for justice, While living on a prayer 
Pondering on the meaning of such a troubled peace 

I felt the truth and saw the truth 
But It was gone in a second
And so I searched but searched in vain 
For a second glimpse of hope 

Now I can’t stop, why should I doubt
I know some one will listen
To broken hearts  and promises
That may live but never cope

Every little mystery that we solve
Is the brand new puzzle that evolves 
But ain’t no answer to the fundamental game
What we say we will we seldom can 
Can’t be failing to some greater plan
Sometimes what I got and living ain’t quite the same

I can see the picture...

no more words,  what difference do they make 
to a picture of so much heart break 


I can see the picture...


Sometimes I don’t wanna go on and then I see my babies laugh and cry 
and then I know for them I got to try to paint a different picture

Ad libs and Choruses out till fade
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TWICE AS MUCH
©1999 Ola Onabule

Whatever  it is you make me feel
Is Twice as much as half of what you feel
What ever it is it feels surreal
And twice as much as half of what you feel

I don’t need a reason
To be with you everyday
But I’m experiencing
All of those tasty things you say

What I got for you is mega
Its gettin positively better
What I got for you is Giga
I wanna do you love for ever
 
The thought of you in my home
Brings me closer to a tear
Making love all day long
Till a brand new day is near

Solo

Choruses Out
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STAY HERE FOR EVER
© 1999 Ola Onabule

Oh! what we have  found here 
 Irreversible
when did it become so clear
Yet inexplicable...

 I wanna stay here forever
Ohhh It couldn’t get any better
Nothing tastes sweeter
Lets stay here for ever more

This is what I believe in 
incontrovertible
Bliss and magical feelings
So indestructible...

 I wanna stay here forever
Ohhh This is the height of all pleasure
Joy beyond measure
Lets stay here for ever more

Solo

I wanna stay here forever
Ohhh This is the height of all pleasure
Joy beyond measure
Lets stay here for ever more

Break down!
If there’s a truth I know 
You can’t overgrow
Love that’s from the soul
Stay here for ever

It may cause you pain
but it ‘s not in vain
You’ll always smile again 
Stay here for ever 

Repeat and ad lib till fade
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BIRTHDAY FUNK
Ola Onabule © 1999

She was was fine, She was was eloquent yet fine
She could have had the choice cut of my day
She was sure she was confidently sure
That I’d be wanting more of what she gave

I so unstintingly obliged
I resigned myself to flight
I’m reckless on a moonlit night

Chorus

Good was happening, 
Time was stopping,
We were laughing 
Like it was my birthday

The wave was breaking
As my up was lifting 
And I ain’t had this feeling
 Since it was my birthday

So we were singing Ba dap doo, Ba dap doo Ba dap doo
Birthday!!!

She did good ,
But my instincts knew she would
I could not begin to want or hope for more
But you see a bit of courage sets you free
So I summoned up the Dutch to know the score

She so unstintingly obliged 
And resigned herself to flight 
She’s reckless on a moonlit night

Chorus 

Break down, choruses out
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HEART OF MINE
© 1999 Ola Onabule

In the light of day It seemed so clear to me
She was the all I thought I’d need
Now that day is done my dream is yet to be
What’s the point in, hopeless hoping
If the one you want don’t  care

Heart of mine, you’re nothing like a friend 
If you were, I wouldn’t be so in love with that Girl 
We’ll be fine you said before the end 
Now she’s gone and I find I’m still so in love 

Gone before I had a chance to say the words
forever trapped in my head
Echoes that may not fade and still never be heard
What’s the point in, needless wanting
If there ain't no one to have

It seems that love only came to let me know
Pain I’d have never known ... 
(left on my own)

Choruses Out
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ONE MORE PRECIOUS LIBATION
©1999 Ola Onabule

Why is this young man running
Is he the prey or is he hunting

Why are these people crying 
Is it for joy or is their joy dying

Why is their luck not turning
Why is there no one listening
Why is there no point in crying
They say look at it this way

He’s just one more precious libation to silent gods
He’s just one more precious libation to silent gods
He’s just one more precious libation to silent gods
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IF YOU KNEW
© 1999 Ola Onabule

It’s gonna be good 
I’m gonna be fine
Did what i could 
Now I’m gonna be fine

But  It ain't down to you I’m better
And you didn’t do me single favour 
When I was cracking under pressure
Ya thought I was beat  but I guess I’m stronger oh yeah!

If you knew what I know You wouldn’t be standing in your shoes 
Laughing while singing the blues to me 
If you’d been where I've been You wouldn’t be heading back that way 
So carelessly saying what you say to me

I’m willing to learn 
It’s never too late
so long waiting my turn
But it ain’t ever too late

Why would I give up on the future
It’s the ultimate adventure
I think I made the perfect mixture
A bit of hope and peace to capture oh yeah

Big adventure straight ahead 
You can lie but you made your bed
I got keys you can go inside
but ain’t no call for what you’ve implied 
If you can’t then don’t show me love 
sure ain’t what I been dying of 
You put me down like I ain’t got talk 
Just put me down I can sho’ nuff walk
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NEVER ALONE
© 1999 Ola Onabule

I’m never alone
When making my way through the darkness
I’m not afraid anymore
Her love gives me hope

There was a time 
The wrong time to trust in love
Faith was the crime
I had been so guilty of

Then there was you
And with you came something rare
aiming so true
Till all the worst disappeared from my life

Then we made love that made a new world 
We changed the cold in our world 
Into the safest place that I’ve known

I’m never alone 
When making my way through the darkness
 I’m not afraid anymore
 Her love gives me hope 

I’ve had my share
Of painful compromise
Learning to bear
Meaningless talk, naked lies 

Then there was you
so fresh and so sincere
You always came through
always dependably clear to me

Then we made love of broken pieces
Our hearts were desperate places
But now the sweetest home that I’ve known

Solo, Bridge 2

ad lib and choruses out
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WHEN I LOOK AT YOU
©1999 Ola Onabule

Touching you, and everything is good
Kisses like nirvana food
clothed incense of heaven and above
silken sighs, sounds of love

When I look at you
When you’re one with me
I think of other moments in our lives 
We’ve filled with ecstasy
And every memory’s a new rhapsody
That now is part of me 
For all eternity

Shut my eyes, to hold the tide within
Where our bliss finds new meaning
And when you cry I shower you with song
satin words, strains of love

When I look at you
When you’re one with me
I think of other moments in our lives 
We’ve filled with ecstasy
And every memory’s a new rhapsody
That now is part of me 
For all eternity
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