has been labeled kwa darkness.
Your birth is your death.
wewe have died a thousand times
in your heart,
death shines in your eyes,
following wewe like a limpet.
You've died,
though wewe still breathe,
but life is just a shadow
of your past,
wewe don't see the life.
Your road is spiny,
hope is smothered and distant
to your sight.
You're on the road,
but this road is your life,
and this life is a burden of
your fate,
and past never dies until wewe die.
Your road is full of thorns,
empty and abandoned,
like your heart,
like your life.
The siku of your birth
has been labeled
kwa darkness.
It's everywhere wewe look,
you're on this road alone
and this road is the burden
of your fate,
past never dies until wewe die.
Peacful night in bed
A quiet night outside
Ticking of the clock
A sudden loud noise
A shadow dances across the room
wewe duck
wewe hide
wewe run away
From the Ilusions of the mind
Nice walk in the park
Birds ar singing
Children playing
Suddenly no song
Suddenly no laughter
wewe duck
wewe hide
wewe run away
From the Ilusions of the mind
Walking nyumbani from school
People talking on the phone
Not minding where they go
Forgeting who they are
No one hears wewe call thier name
wewe duck
wewe hide
wewe run away
From the Ilusions of the mind
Ten past midnight
wewe cant sleep
Insomnia distroys the person wewe were
wewe see a shadow move
wewe duck
wewe hide
wewe run away
No
Im not running anymore
Im not afraid
No one governs me
Not even the Ilusions of the mind
A quiet night outside
Ticking of the clock
A sudden loud noise
A shadow dances across the room
wewe duck
wewe hide
wewe run away
From the Ilusions of the mind
Nice walk in the park
Birds ar singing
Children playing
Suddenly no song
Suddenly no laughter
wewe duck
wewe hide
wewe run away
From the Ilusions of the mind
Walking nyumbani from school
People talking on the phone
Not minding where they go
Forgeting who they are
No one hears wewe call thier name
wewe duck
wewe hide
wewe run away
From the Ilusions of the mind
Ten past midnight
wewe cant sleep
Insomnia distroys the person wewe were
wewe see a shadow move
wewe duck
wewe hide
wewe run away
No
Im not running anymore
Im not afraid
No one governs me
Not even the Ilusions of the mind
Echoing sounds through the hallway as floorboards click into thier place.
02.58
The clock ticks slowly as each sekunde takes forevery to take place.
02.58
The pitch black of the night eluminated kwa a small glow from the laptop.
02.58
Time never seems to stop
02.58
Rarely changing a didgit
02.59
The word is heard through ears as the forgotten sound of keys on the keyboard form thier own melody of words
02.59
03.00
Curfew was at 10
03.00
Gone past then
03.00
I want to wake up from this nightmare
03.00
But never can wewe wake
02.59
For it takes wewe back
02.58
To where wewe started
02.57
Never ending
02.56
Never stopping
02.55
Never escaping from its grasp
06.00 AM
For there is no cure
12.00 PM
Ive tried them all
3.00 PM
None seem to work
5.00 PM
Not yawning since forever
9.00 PM
The cycle goes on
11.00 PM
For insomnia
12 Midnight
Insomnia never sleeps
02.58
The clock ticks slowly as each sekunde takes forevery to take place.
02.58
The pitch black of the night eluminated kwa a small glow from the laptop.
02.58
Time never seems to stop
02.58
Rarely changing a didgit
02.59
The word is heard through ears as the forgotten sound of keys on the keyboard form thier own melody of words
02.59
03.00
Curfew was at 10
03.00
Gone past then
03.00
I want to wake up from this nightmare
03.00
But never can wewe wake
02.59
For it takes wewe back
02.58
To where wewe started
02.57
Never ending
02.56
Never stopping
02.55
Never escaping from its grasp
06.00 AM
For there is no cure
12.00 PM
Ive tried them all
3.00 PM
None seem to work
5.00 PM
Not yawning since forever
9.00 PM
The cycle goes on
11.00 PM
For insomnia
12 Midnight
Insomnia never sleeps
Everyday,
Like any other day,
I woke up like any other people do.
Still sleepy and bleh.
Well things started to change.
I used to hear mbwa barking.
Cats clawing,
Birds chirping,
But thats all gone.
Now, all I hear and feel is nothing
But sadness.
I couldnt really tell anyone why I feel like this.
Why?
Im afraid to tell.
No one would've understand.
No one would even talk to me.
Thats how everything changed.
Everyone used to talk to me.
But now,
At a new place,
Even different faces,
Not one person talks to me.
They see me,
But they would push me
And shove me in lockers.
Then tease and taunt me.
I would tell wewe what I am so afraid of,
But its hard for wewe to understand.
Just dont worry about it.
Some how,
I dont know how,
But Things just started to become different.
Sometimes,
Things are meant to be changed
But,
Sometimes not supposed to.
Like any other day,
I woke up like any other people do.
Still sleepy and bleh.
Well things started to change.
I used to hear mbwa barking.
Cats clawing,
Birds chirping,
But thats all gone.
Now, all I hear and feel is nothing
But sadness.
I couldnt really tell anyone why I feel like this.
Why?
Im afraid to tell.
No one would've understand.
No one would even talk to me.
Thats how everything changed.
Everyone used to talk to me.
But now,
At a new place,
Even different faces,
Not one person talks to me.
They see me,
But they would push me
And shove me in lockers.
Then tease and taunt me.
I would tell wewe what I am so afraid of,
But its hard for wewe to understand.
Just dont worry about it.
Some how,
I dont know how,
But Things just started to become different.
Sometimes,
Things are meant to be changed
But,
Sometimes not supposed to.
I loved wewe so much
I thought about wewe everyday
But there was something
That I never got to tell you.
I upendo you
I want you
But now I can't
Anymore. Now that
I am gone.
Everytime in the halls,
And I passed kwa you,
My moyo would beat so fast.
Sometimes, I thought wewe liked me too.
We have been Marafiki for a long time,
But, it hurts everytime that I think of you
wewe aren't there anymore.
I never got to tell wewe how much I loved you.
How much I cared about you.
How much wewe helped through tough times.
I guess we were never meant to be.
I'm sorry.
I thought about wewe everyday
But there was something
That I never got to tell you.
I upendo you
I want you
But now I can't
Anymore. Now that
I am gone.
Everytime in the halls,
And I passed kwa you,
My moyo would beat so fast.
Sometimes, I thought wewe liked me too.
We have been Marafiki for a long time,
But, it hurts everytime that I think of you
wewe aren't there anymore.
I never got to tell wewe how much I loved you.
How much I cared about you.
How much wewe helped through tough times.
I guess we were never meant to be.
I'm sorry.
When I smiled,
When I laughed,
It was because I thought of death.
When I cried,
When I screamed,
It was because my death was to slow.
When I smiled my final smile,
No one cried,
No one cared.
I grabbed a kisu and a slip of paper,
I wrote my final words,
I sat in my room staring at the knife.
I heard a laugh,
I heard a cry,
Turned to see my family right kwa my side.
I ran away,
I’m scare to death,
I grab my kisu but it wont kill.
Someone had grabbed my arm,
Someone cried for me to stop,
I turned and fell deep in love.
I turned so fast,
I fell so fast,
wewe caught me on the verge of death.
wewe saved me,
wewe cared about me,
I felt alone,
I now felt loved,
But the inayofuata siku wewe died,
The inayofuata siku I cried,
I need to be with you,
I want to be with you,
I grabbed the gun,
I pulled the trigger,
Then I saw a beautiful figure.
wewe came,
I saw,
wewe wrapped me in your arms,
And now we will walk together,
Forever.
When I laughed,
It was because I thought of death.
When I cried,
When I screamed,
It was because my death was to slow.
When I smiled my final smile,
No one cried,
No one cared.
I grabbed a kisu and a slip of paper,
I wrote my final words,
I sat in my room staring at the knife.
I heard a laugh,
I heard a cry,
Turned to see my family right kwa my side.
I ran away,
I’m scare to death,
I grab my kisu but it wont kill.
Someone had grabbed my arm,
Someone cried for me to stop,
I turned and fell deep in love.
I turned so fast,
I fell so fast,
wewe caught me on the verge of death.
wewe saved me,
wewe cared about me,
I felt alone,
I now felt loved,
But the inayofuata siku wewe died,
The inayofuata siku I cried,
I need to be with you,
I want to be with you,
I grabbed the gun,
I pulled the trigger,
Then I saw a beautiful figure.
wewe came,
I saw,
wewe wrapped me in your arms,
And now we will walk together,
Forever.
wewe kissed another girl but why couldn't that be me?
Then wewe say I upendo wewe to her why isn't that me your
Saying That to?
When wewe hug her, why am I not the one to be hugged?
When wewe protect her from bad things, why aren't I the one to feel safe?
When she cries, how come I'm not the one to crie on your
Shoulder?
When wewe hold her tight, why can't I be held in your arms?
When wewe tell her we belong together, why couldn't we be together?
When wewe make her laugh, how come I can't be the one
To smile and laugh with you?
When wewe see her smile and start kissing her, why can't that be me?
Then wewe say I upendo wewe to her why isn't that me your
Saying That to?
When wewe hug her, why am I not the one to be hugged?
When wewe protect her from bad things, why aren't I the one to feel safe?
When she cries, how come I'm not the one to crie on your
Shoulder?
When wewe hold her tight, why can't I be held in your arms?
When wewe tell her we belong together, why couldn't we be together?
When wewe make her laugh, how come I can't be the one
To smile and laugh with you?
When wewe see her smile and start kissing her, why can't that be me?
Here I lay so pale and weak
I wish I could be healty,
coz that is what I seek.
Seeing, people living so happily,
I do not need to think twice.
I wish I could have what a healthy person has,
being jumpy, happy and so full of life.
Where most of these days I feel,
I can't talk au breath
As people say live and let live.
Why must I be buried in my bed,
Feeling no hope, in my moyo au head.
People can jump around,
be who they want to be.
Where as I feel like I can't get out of bed,
but thats just me.
Seeing, people living so happily,
I do not need to think twice.
I wish I could have what a healthy person has,
being jumpy, happy and so full of life.
I wish I could be healty,
coz that is what I seek.
Seeing, people living so happily,
I do not need to think twice.
I wish I could have what a healthy person has,
being jumpy, happy and so full of life.
Where most of these days I feel,
I can't talk au breath
As people say live and let live.
Why must I be buried in my bed,
Feeling no hope, in my moyo au head.
People can jump around,
be who they want to be.
Where as I feel like I can't get out of bed,
but thats just me.
Seeing, people living so happily,
I do not need to think twice.
I wish I could have what a healthy person has,
being jumpy, happy and so full of life.
can be so sweet and disturbing
the same time.
I look at wewe stealthily,
admiring the beauty of your body.
Oh this can't be real,
oh am i falling in upendo again?
Should i stop?
Am i being reckless?
Does he look at me the same way
i look at him?
Too many questions,
don't know what to think,
my moyo is so full of him,
i don't want to think.
If i kiss him,
will it be that sweet as i imagined?
Oh,save me,
my moyo is so full of him!
I'm such a coward when he's around,
trembling on every small attention
he's been giving to me.
But,he sees.
He sees that very well.
He knows my moyo is almost his,
and he's playing this game,
he's vain,and i'm just a catch.
Oh will he betray me?
I should have thought of that
before.
I shouldn't let that happen
so fast.
But now it's too late,
isn't it?
I buried my fears so deep
i thought i fooled them.
But they are always awake
and aware.
The fears of my own know
that very well...
My moyo is so full of him.
Of what,
of who?
Could it hurt,
could the pain return again?
There's me holding that
cold glass of wine,
staring at her,
trying to forget...
There's he,
sad and distant
like usual.
Oh why,
oh why?
There's me again,but this time
i was happy.
So happy for all those sweet
kisses he gave me...
And again he,looking at me
and wondering...
Oh i should have known!
Inside my ndoto i seek
for his kisses that
poisoned my body,
i tafuta for the reason,
trying to see...
There's he again,
oh his kisses,
what did he do to me,
oh he fooled me again...
Nothing was real,
he was wondering,
oh he was trying to see
her in my eyes,
oh...
He gave me all that sweetness,
but he belongs to her.
Oh,he's so sad because of her.
He's so distant because of her.
Oh,he disrupt my dreams
because of her.
ME^.^YOU
a simple word
for a special world
for wewe and me
a simple thought
for a special bond
one cannot see
it wraps us up
in its cocoon
and holds us fiercely
in its womb
this simple word
was created from the Moon
for wewe and me
in space and in time
my soul desperately
tries to find you
in the reality
of our infinity
it is so easy
for me to tell you
that all I want
is to LOVE you
all of YOU
i want to upendo you
like no one else
could ever upendo me
like wewe do
will wewe ever
forgive me
to upendo you
like I do?
to accept the truth
about who wewe really are?
Maybe,
maybe that's who i am...
A frightened girl
that has created
her own world of ndoto
just to protect herself
from all those dark thoughts
that could ruin her peace.
Inside this agony of love
she lets the fear to enter,
she lets the tears dripping
so slowly,
intensively.
But,
every inch of my body
yearn to feel your
soft hands.
Desire will be locked
deep inside myself,
to burn there,
to fly there...
To you,
my love. ♥
time goes kwa
as i think of wewe
staring in the mirror of my room
your lips are warm
my mouth it lingers
i think of wewe
with fiery eyes
i want wewe now
my sweety pie
wewe are my life
my world my earth
time goes kwa
with wewe in mind
i stare off silentl;y
wisshing wewe were right beside me
looking through
wewe are my air
the only thing
that keeps me breathing
my darkess picha
are disapearing
wewe are my upendo
just like a njiwa
peacefull and beutiful
with oh such beuty
wewe call to me
through the waves of life
wewe are my baby
my lil muffin, mkate ule ulikuwa mtamu
my one true upendo
that i cannot get enough of
I upendo wewe bree with all my moyo
forever wewe will have my love
as i think of wewe
staring in the mirror of my room
your lips are warm
my mouth it lingers
i think of wewe
with fiery eyes
i want wewe now
my sweety pie
wewe are my life
my world my earth
time goes kwa
with wewe in mind
i stare off silentl;y
wisshing wewe were right beside me
looking through
wewe are my air
the only thing
that keeps me breathing
my darkess picha
are disapearing
wewe are my upendo
just like a njiwa
peacefull and beutiful
with oh such beuty
wewe call to me
through the waves of life
wewe are my baby
my lil muffin, mkate ule ulikuwa mtamu
my one true upendo
that i cannot get enough of
I upendo wewe bree with all my moyo
forever wewe will have my love
miss wewe upendo
wewe disapear
your like a ghost
but I do not fear
Behind my tears
wewe never come
I miss your face
the angelic grace
I miss wewe upendo
wewe I cannot see
I cannot speak
it's been forever upendo
sice I've talked to wewe
I miss wewe zaidi
than I ever loved
upendo is upendo
and missing wewe is sad
I need to see wewe
to talk to wewe
I need to upendo wewe again
I always upendo wewe but I miss loving wewe to your fave
upendo
upendo upendo
come back
mysteriously the rose petals have all turned black
the flame is blowing out
and warmth is torn from me
I miss wewe upendo
please come back to me
my arms are waiting and I need wewe zaidi than ever
I miss wewe love
wewe disapear
your like a ghost
but I do not fear
Behind my tears
wewe never come
I miss your face
the angelic grace
I miss wewe upendo
wewe I cannot see
I cannot speak
it's been forever upendo
sice I've talked to wewe
I miss wewe zaidi
than I ever loved
upendo is upendo
and missing wewe is sad
I need to see wewe
to talk to wewe
I need to upendo wewe again
I always upendo wewe but I miss loving wewe to your fave
upendo
upendo upendo
come back
mysteriously the rose petals have all turned black
the flame is blowing out
and warmth is torn from me
I miss wewe upendo
please come back to me
my arms are waiting and I need wewe zaidi than ever
I miss wewe love
no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire
will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd meet
somebody like you
I never dreamed I'd love
somebody like you
No I didn't want to fall in love
No I don't want to fall in upendo with you
What a wicked game to play
To make me feel this way
What a wicked thing to do
To let me dream of you
What a wicked thing to say
wewe never felt this way
What a wicked thing to do
To make me dream of you
And I don't want to fall in love
No I don't want to fall in upendo with you
The world was on moto and
no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire
will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd upendo somebody like you
I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you
upendo is brittle madness
This world is only gonna break our hearts
But my moyo already fell … for you
(Written and performed kwa the great Chris Isaac)
