Isaac's Story Lyrics

What's the price you've gotta pay when you were born in the dirt

The only things your parents cover

Is a shoe and a shirt

A couple kids they've gotta feed

So it's just sleep for dessert

But through the night you keep awake Your stomachs starting to hurt

You're walking hours just to drink

The nearest well is in miles

And from the village even going school is buried in trials

So if you didn't then it's normal cos your family's poor

And that Nigerian kinda poor

Is not just normally poor

You get the grades to go to college

That's the first in the house

That's even though your mother died your dad is missing a spouse

You told your mother that you'd make it

Be the doctor at home

Because your dreams were always bigger than the dirt and the loam

And with the way you loved your mother

That's a promise you'll keep

Because the night before she died she called her son to her side

She told you son it's good to work because the talking is cheap

The bible says it's what you sow that you reap

So even though your fathers proud

To give you money isn't something he can

Your scholarship made him the happiest man

You go to uni in the city

All your taking is a bag and pan

it wasn't long before the hustle began

Cos all the scholarship had paid was just the route the books and a school

A couple mates have got a house and a pool

Without the money needing food

You're going car to car and begging the fuel

It's not a thing of who's looking a fool

You made a promise to yourself that when it comes to grades you're putting your best

So that just meant that you would work when you're stressed

And everybody knows that anything with medicine at uni is hard

It takes another level aceing the test

So in the nights when all your friends they wanna party putting drinks on their card

You put your feet inside a bowl in the yard

To keep you woke because you're tryna read your books

Your friends they think you're possessed

And that's just how you got the best in the west

So graduating what's the price you gotta pay when you were born in the dirt

The only things your parents covered is a shoe and a shirt

You finished uni that degree is like a trophy you own

You paid the price and yeah you suffered alone

And now you've got the job you're living in the city with a car and a house

You've found a partner that you're calling a spouse

Your luck is changing

So the second that you get to put a ring on her hand

You look to God and blow a kiss from your mouth

It's like your mothers looking down just saying son

I see the route that you took

You took the road with opposition and look

You made a promise when I died you'd work the hardest work

Be the doctor at home

So in the desert I provided a brook

That's how it goes she told him God was always watching when he put in the work

He had to see that he could work as a clerk

That's how it goes she said she's happy that he took the fighting spirit from her

Cos if you fail you couldn't handle the perk

So as it goes he kept on working at the job he had some kids of his own

So in his house he's now the man on the throne

He held his daughter for the first time and told his wife I promise she won't

Have to suffer like i suffered my own

Cos all the working that he's doing now

Is just to make it better for the future

And such is life his wife gets tumor

Said he felt it coming said the good times end because it's good times that hell finds Humour

Getting better

What's the price you gotta pay when you were born in the dirt

To give your kids a better future not a shoe and a shirt

You're moving countries to a place where there is no one you know

Because the options where you come from is low

You didn't know that that degree you got from uni in this country is void

You only get a visa when you've got a job and employed

You're left alone so now you're lonely

No degree so you're a phoney

In this country all you built was destroyed

So as a job you're now a cleaner

Scrubbing toilets but you study at night

You wear your suit to clean the toilet despite

All the kids and teachers laughing at you thinking that you're crazy in here

It's only you that sees the vision you see

You're going home and when you sleep is in a zone they call a council estate

A couple nights it's gun shots or a fight

They're tryna tell you that you're nothing but a cleaner in a council estate

But when you look you see a doctor in sight

You finish uni do the tests in flying colours get

Another degree

Once a cleaner now a doctor they see

You get a job that makes it easy putting money on a house of your own

And bring the rest of all your family to see

You made a promise to your kids

You said they'll never have to struggle like you

And now they're settled living over the sea

And now they're grown you tell a story of your life and all the things that you've seen

And their ease it's hard for them to agree

You ask the question

What's the price you gotta pay when you were born in the dirt

The only things your parents gave you was a shoe and a shirt