Aṣa

There is fire on the mountain
And nobody seems to be on the run
Oh there is fire on the mountain top
And no one is running

I wake up in the morning
Tell you what I see on my TV screen
I see the blood of an innocent child
And everybody's watching

Now I'm looking out my window
And what do I see
I see an army of a soldier man
Marching across the street

Hey Mr. soldier man
Tomorrow is the day you go to war
But you are fighting for another man's cause
And you don't even know him

What did he say to make you so blind
To your conscience and reason
Could it be love for your country
Or for the gun you use in killing

There is fire on the mountain
And nobody seems to be on the run
Oh there is fire on the mountain top
And no one is running

Hey Mr. Lover man
Can I get a chance to talk to you
Cause you are fooling with a dead man's corpse
And you don't know what you do

So you say you have a lover
And you love her like no other
So you buy her a diamond
That someone has died on
Don't you think there's something wrong with this?

Tell me who's responsible
For what we teach our children?
Is it the internet?
Or the stars on television?
Why o why o

So little Lucy turns sixteen
And like the movie she's been seeing
She has a lover in her daddy
She can't tell nobody
'Til she makes the evening news

There is fire on the mountain
And nobody seems to be on the run
Oh there is fire on the mountain top
And no one is running

One day the river will over flow
And there'll be nowhere for us to go
And we will run, run
Wishing we had put out the fire

Am in chains you’re in chains too
I wear uniforms, you wear uniforms too
Am a prisoner,
You’re a prisoner too Mr Jailer

I have fears you have fears too
I will die, you sef go die too
Life is beautiful
Don’t you think so too Mr Jailer

Am talking to you jailer
Stop calling me a prisoner
Let he who is without sin -
Be the first to cast the stone Mr Jailer

You suppress all my strategy
You oppress every part of me
What you don’t know,
You’re a victim too Mr Jailer

You don’t care about my point of view
If I die another will work for you
So you threat me like a modern slave Mr Jailer

If you walking in a market place
Don’t throw stones
Even if you do, you just might hit
One of your own
Life is not about your policies
All the time
So you better rearrange your
Philosophies and be good to your Fellow man
Jailer

I hear my baby say
I wan be president
I wan chop money
From my government
What he don’t know
Be say Mr Jailer

Just the other day, the other day
I was talking to the weather man
About today oh oh oh
And all, all he could say
Was no one knows tomorrow

See I can read the weather child
I can say maybe the rain will fall
The sun will shine oh oh ohh...
But that's as far as my guess goes

Cos no one knows tomorrow
Oh oh ha ha..no one knows tomorrow

Tell me what's the need
To go to war, all the killings
Just to settle some one else's score o o o
When the victory isn't even sure
No one knows tomorrow

See, we can study history
And philosophy and Plato's ideology
Oh oh ohh...
But tomorrow's still a mystery oh oh ohh

Cos no one knows tomorrow
Oh oh ha ha..no one knows tomorrow

Tomorrow is your opportunity to fail
Or be successful if you please, yes indeed
Tomorrow is a politician's today
It's the victim of decisions
And the future of our children

So when I die someday,
Will I be in heavenly places
Singing halleluiah with an angel

On the piano or will I be
Just another contribution
To the earth, the trees, the grasses

As tomorrow slowly passes
No one knows... no one knows

Beautiful is your name
Wonderful is what you are to me
It's you I see in my dreams
Everyday and I pray for you
Queen of my life
You're so beautiful mama.
You're beautiful

Emi n wa mama kan
Ta lori yeye yen
Mama mi o roju ri
And that's why I'm lovng you

Nitori omo o jiya
Ni le oko
Mama mi ko roju ri
And that's why am loving you

La la la la
la la la o o
You are beautiful
You are beautiful

Ebami kira fun mama mi
Orisha bi iya o
Ko si laiye

Woman there is
No one like you
Nitori omo o jiya
Ni le oko
Mama mi ko ro oju ri
And that is why am loving you

La la la la
la la la o o
You are beautiful
You are beautiful

Ebami kira fun mama mi
Orisha bi iya o
Ko si laiye

Every day is not a holiday
My life's like a subway o
I know this love don't last

Look at me tell me what you see
Do you believe this love is real o
I know this love don't last

I have come from far away
To see this go down the drain

I have waited patiently
And this is what I get
Emotionally failing me

My whole wild world is caving in
I try so hard to express myself/but
The woman in me/o o o don’t fade away

My mama say baby be careful
If anybody comes to say I love you
My papa say baby I warn you
If anybody comes to say I love you

Now you asking me to trust you
Tell me how am I supposed to
When I know this love don't last

Could this be the kind of love?
That my mum use to warn me about
How will I know that this love will last

I have come from far away
To see this go down the drain
I have got so much to give

But I don't know what I'll get
Emotionally failing me
My whole wild world is caving in

I try so hard to express my self but
The woman in me don’t fade away.

My momma said baby be careful
if anybody comes to say I love you.
My papa said baby I warn you
if anybody comes to say I love you.