OUT OF TIME

What kind of world are you hoping for?
When you look out the window
What is it you seek?
A life full of sunshine and beautiful trees?

A home which suits your dreams and desire?
Perhaps you are just looking for an alibi to run away?
No one can make you envisaged to reality
Look up and you will notice the clouds are scattered

Once the heart and mind do not agree
There will be chaos looming the street
Someday life is going to catch up with you
It is either you wash away your fears

Into a bucket and flush them all down the drain
Or let the heart get eaten when troubled stare
Every one has a moment of weakness
It does not mean you can not find a way through

Survivors gets out of every situation
They walk through a difficult path without blames 
Been focused only detest that you are serious
A man without a dream is but a lose end

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STOP TRYING

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

There is no place like home 
Going back to a happy family where I am from 
Parents whom I missed very much 
Little kids running around messing the couch 

Home is where you find love that cannot be bought 
A place the sun never gets old 
Happiness resides in every heart 
Everyday is like an holiday right from birth 

I once thought when I go far away 
I will be happy in a million way 
Oh, how much I missed playing in the sand 
All dirty and groomed, ready to be smacked

Catching rainbows in a bucket or a bow 
Playing hide and seek in the bedroom wardrobe 
I had a good memory living outside the city 
My parents where always fond of me 

In the city, I hoped to find friendship on street 
But found out while I was asleep 
Someone took the lights out 
There's been no sign of the moon about a week 

In the city, I knew something was missing in me
From Lagos to Asaba, Abuja up to Maiduguri 
I could run away as far as I want to go 
But it cannot be like home sweet home 

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THE LAST TRAIN

Despair reside in my heart 
For many tears I have cried 
Sadness sharing a sit tonight
Where happiness left me by 

Oh darling, I need your smile 
Everyday of my life 
Please do not let me die 
I want you by my side 

I have been waiting yesterday 
Cannot get the feeling out of my mind 
Every time I see a light 
A sound coming from a distance 

I run anxiously on the track 
I long for your arms to lie 
But was told I had to wait until midnight 
That is when the your train will arrive 

Maybe this is all a bad idea 
What if I do not find you tonight? 
My fragile heart cannot stand a heartbreak 
It would drive me out my mind 

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SORROW, TEARS AND COMFORT

Everything I touch fades away 
A dark cloud covering my dream 
The world I cannot find no more 
Where are the stars? 

Where are the things 
Which makes we smile? 
The wall is very high, I cannot climb 
I keep falling every time I try 

It is a miracle I survived 
But I cannot tell for how very long
I wish someone had told me earlier 
That the world is full of falling stars 

Dreams do not always come alive 
Maybe facing the storm 
Would make life a whole lot easier 
I would not journeyed a miserable life 

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SITTING STAR

 



Oh sitting star, are you smiling at me? 
I noticed the way you are staring at me 
It must be because the night is beautiful 
Humming sweet words to you 

There is so much I can see in your eyes 
Blue as the sea where the evening lays 
It is a start of something real and magical
Like dancing in the cloud until the morning dew 

I can not phantom the way you are teasing me 
But I keep seeing you persistently in my dream 
I get the feeling this is going to last forever 
My emotion is sitting by the side of the river 

It looks like we have got a thing alike 
The way you smile gives my heart a spark 
Everything else got a chill around me 
Except close to you, where I love to be 

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I COULD HAVE WRITTEN YOU A SONG

I could have written you a song 
But I keep missing the notes 
I think my heart lost a key 
For you are not here with me 

How can I find a star? 
When it never stop raining at night 
I buried your love in my heart 
To re-assure myself it is going to be alright

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UNBROKEN

At night the enemy came

Set up camp on the path to zion

They gather to set ambush

And plan to destroy me

But bestowed upon my hands, the master key

To unlock every bolted door on the way

Break every brass and iron gate

Walk harmlessly through the enemy’s camp

I stand upon the high mountains

Behold, His glory rest upon the land and sea

Captive broken free, death reprised

The night had no grip to life

In the storm, I found refuge

I match on with reassurance

Of resurrection and life

Anywhere He chooses to stand

I look down the south and up to the north

Cannot count the blessings

Any door opened by faith

Is never again shut

The moment I walked with God

Life became not the same

Every word He speaks

In my life is accomplished

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HAPPY

I just wanted a life 
Holding the things I love 
Not a stranger 
Lost without the direction 

Sometimes when I close my eyes 
All I see is lonely tears 
Emotion deeply broken 
A world I can't find the sun 

I use to dream of having everything 
Someone to love 
A career of my choice 
A home made with bed of roses 

It seems I am falling 
No branches to hold a grip 
I cannot find my way back home 
Lost and wandering on the street 

I wish I am surrounded 
With all the stars and the moon 
All I seek is to wear a smile 
I just want to be happy 

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WINTER NIGHT

Under the winter night
Souls hiding in the sand
Memories of death
Tears of love ones in our heart

Life is stolen from an infant
Hopes tarnished and destroyed
Grievances harboring the earth
War at the boarders brings conflict

No more retribution, no more ease of mind
Triggered violence to avenge
The killings will not cease to end
For things are getting out of hand

When you pick up arms to fight
Is it justified that you're right?
Because it saddened the heart
Yesterday we were brothers in birth

Enemies on the front line at dusk
Salvaging every glimpse of breath
If only in such an imperfect world
Man is but not adopted

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STOP TRYING

Stop trying to fit into the world
Everyone is unique in her own way
Life is not always perfect
Not often do you find the rain

Of-cause you are different 

For you are beautifully made
Why let some fools

Talk you into otherwise

Who is standing in the mirror in front of you?

Can she say I am very proud of you?
Can she say I believe in you?

You are the person who matters most in my life

Shake that nerves off your feet

Say out loud, I am who I want to be

Not even the world can hinder my dream
For I am the best of me

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THE MAN IN ME

When I was a kid

I used to think

The kind of man

I would grow up to be

An artist, a musician

A footballer or a lawyer

A banker, maybe an accountant

A writer but not a politician

Thoughts floating in the sky

My dreams running wide

I could not catch up with time

Helplessly, I watch her die

Days became weeks

Weeks became months

Months became years

Until I lost track of time

I never thought

Life would turn out this way

A grown man living in the past

Is all the future could fortify

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