Politics and Lies ft. Kobo Lyrics

How many people want to lead with a good intention

They want to get some money, spend it on a new invention

Go to sleep on expensive sheets while the streets in tension

They make the weak break their backs and fix it up with pension

I go back in history so i can understand

That there's no mystery, it's written in the sands

Politics and lies go hand in hand

Politics and lies go hand in hand

I haven't slept all week

Every night restless in my sheets

Talk to God but my prayers don't reach

Nigerian blood stains on the streets

The youths catch bullet strays from police

That's the only way their souls can be freed

Politicians selling us short when they speak

And they sell our blood to the world when we bleed

News headlines make our royalty cheap

They trade it for the glory, we just die on repeat

The motherland is turning to a war zone

We are fighting with devils that come in all forms

Some are dressed in suits and ties and uniforms

Use their weapons and the power to abuse the law

For the longest they had our backs against the wall

If sars is killing our kids who do we call

There's nothing I want more than peace and harmony

Nigeria blood runs in my arteries

And Africa's always been a part of me

Even when I'm not home she's not far from me

All this gun smoke is affecting her lungs

Kids died protesting cause they wouldn't run

They were brave, stood for what they believe in

And the truth had them killed for no reason

My heart goes out to all the mothers grieving

Shedding tears that couldn't afford freedom

Living all their days under dark clouds

I'm sending prayers to the lord for their healing

And we suppose to trust what the government says

Wake up to the news half the country's dead

I'm just wondering I've been looking for truth

We not slaves we kings and queens in our roots

Oga see the suffer wey the trust don cost me

No make me another promise

You never fulfil the former promise

Wey you forget as you enter office

See the suffer wey the trust don cost me

No make me another promise

You never fulfil the former promise

Wey you forget as you enter office

How many people want to lead with a good intention

They want to get some money, spend it on a new invention

Go to sleep on expensive sheets while the streets in tension

They make the weak break their backs and fix it up with pension

I go back in history so i can understand

That there's no mystery, it's written in the sands

Politics and lies go hand in hand

Politics and lies go hand in hand

Oga see the suffer wey the trust don cost me

No make me another promise

You never fulfil the former promise

Wey you forget as you enter office