Mwata Lyrics

Mwata - Cee Thr33

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Do you know your roots

Do you know your home

Do You know your people

Represent your own

Do you practice culture

Do you see longevity

Will you go back home

Will you bring prosperity

Where am I from

Who are my people

What is my tongue

Where is my chiefdom

What is my tribe

What is my region

If you're born a slave how do you know freedom

Learnt the ways of the looters and pillagers

Those who don't know I lable them villagers

Big City Life took away my innocence Now

I'm older and I know what the mission is It's to visit my roots rediscover my self

Take what I've learnt let us built new wealth

A king isn't known for the castles he's built

A real king is known for the people he helps

With this crown on my head now my home I protect

If you ask me Europe owes us a check

The Belgian Congo, British in the West

France in the North Never punished for their theft

Took our culture called us backward

Took our riches and left us a language

Put us on boats to their home we were captives

Took our self love put shame in our blackness

Look to today have things really changed

Breaking off chains doesn't mean we're not slaves

We follow their lead practice their ways

When royalty is coursing right through our veins

So I call myself Mwata connect to my roots

Try to be a leader in all that I do

The power in me is the power in you

It time to wake up time to speak our truth

Sleeping Giant is what they have named us

Truth is they fear what would happen if we wake up

Make us fight eachother is how they manipulate us

Killing everyone who speaks against their status

Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara

Muamar Ghadafi killed our brothers

I wanna be a leader Young Mwanawasa

You wanna tell me can you answer

Do you know your roots

Do you know your home

Do You know your people

Represent your own

Do you practice culture

Do you see longevity

Will you go back home

Will you bring prosperity

Where am I from

Who are my people

What is my tongue

Where is my chiefdom

What is my tribe

What is my region

If you're born a slave how do you know freedom