Cities on Fire ft. Bona Chucks Lyrics

Cities on fire!

Peace without justice is an impossibility

Let's quench the fire!

People are homeless

Many are foodless

Others are jobless

Suffering seems endless

In our homelands

Everything's burning

Many are yearning

Though some are earning

Pain is just purling

Where do we go?

See them running away

In search of greener pastures;

Wanting to be free:

But what many get is not freedom

Starving and dying of huger

When we should have all the food

Mama Africa so richly blessed:

Yet her children in misery!

We fight wars but we don't make guns;

The enemy watches and has fun

Burning our own cities:

See the smoke keeps rising!

Keep inventing new ways

Of celebrating bad performance

Those who cry foul

Are sent behind bars

Our cities on fire!

See the flames rising!

We're living a mire

We know God is not hiding

Pick up your wire:

talk about this fighting

If our cities stay on fire

We shall only keep dying

All these cities on fire!

See the flames rising!

We're living a mire

We know God is not hiding

So, pick up your wire:

Shout about this fighting

If anyone is a liar

We shall only keep dying

Do you know why?

Do you wanna know, know why?

(Every cloud has a silver lining, except a war cloud. – Anonymous)

Can you tell why?

Listen! Yes, Sir!

The greedy leaders and their foreign masters!

Yes. Let me tell you why

It's the greedy leaders with their foreign masters

They built up flawed systems!

Weak, ineffective systems!

Judiciary, legislature – only on paper!

Systems that breed corruption!

Steal from the poor and punish them for it!

Do what they want with no call to order!

Those who ask for a better system:

Jailed or maimed, killed or exiled

They say there's a problem:

You lock them away

You admit the problem

But keep them locked away!

Others support the systems

To break from the stolen bread

While the masses go empty

Without any daily bread

And now everyone's

Learning this bad way

So we collude with the secret masters

To set our cities to flames

Our cities on fire!

See the flames rising!

We're living a mire

We know God is not hiding

Oh! pick up your wire:

Talk about this fighting

If our cities stay on fire

We shall only keep dying

All these cities on fire!

See the flames rising!

We're living a mire

We know God is not hiding

Oh! pick up your wire:

Shout about this fighting

If anyone is a liar

We shall only keep dying

Let's quench this fire

Na Blogger wey e di sing song

We can quench this fire

Na Bona Chucks yeah

Ma people di die

Our mama them too them di cry

What's the future now

Save our children yeah

Mama Africa, our towns and cities on fire

They don't know;

We di cry everyday

Papa show we the way

We need freedom

We need justice and peace, oh no! yeah!

We go shidong, we go talk'am as one, oh no no

Mama Africa, stop all the killings;

Let us sit and talk this yeah. Oh no

Mama dey cry say:

Our cities on fire!

See the flames rising!

We're living a mire

We know God is not hiding

Pick up your wire:

Talk about this fighting

If our cities stay on fire

We shall only keep dying

All these cities on fire!

See the flames rising!

We're living a mire

We know God is not hiding

So, pick up your wire:

Shout about this fighting

If anyone is a liar

We shall only keep dying

All these cities on fire!

See the flames rising!

We're living a mire

We know God is not hiding

Eh! pick up your wire:

talk about this fighting

If anyone is liar

We shall only keep dying oh!