National Cake Lyrics

They don’t care about us

Everybody wants to get a piece

Of the national cake

(talking)

They don’t care about us

Everybody wants to get a piece

Of the national cake

But I swear to God im a boss

Till the lord revisits

All we really got is us

What’s the source

They don’t care about us

Everybody wants to get a piece

Of the national cake

But I swear to God im a boss

Till the lord revisits

All we really got is us

Compare my nations wealth to a cake

Politicians get enough

Its just to cut slices

Take turns pass the knife around

All in the name of power sharing

Deep inside no one is caring

About the poverty stricken percentage

Who craze change

To make their lives better

Three square meals

That’s a joke

Every day gets tougher than oak

For how long will the garri soak

Lucky if you got sugar

Perhaps groundnut from three days back

Look what we lack

Oh take a look at what we are

Really asking for

Clean water, food

Plus a roof over

How can man stay sober with this

Adjust to this

Sick and tired of writing lines

Against the system

Cus like Fela

They just might cuff your wrists

For speaking up against the status quo

Lay low like its warfare

The pain is getting harder to bear

Cowards

Stay playing rear like donkey tails

Ill bliss lead the peace form

Facing aso rock

Whaa

They don’t care about us

Everybody wants to get a piece

Of the national cake

But I swear to God im a boss

Till the lord revisits

all we really got is us

What’s the source

They don’t care about us

Everybody wants to get a piece

Of the national cake

But I swear to God im a boss

Till the lord revisits

All we really got is us

Every day I see a different kind of luxury car

On the same road where people hawked gala

For years

Unemployment rate saddening

Everybody planning hard on traveling

To God knows where

I know cats who left for Asia

Without the slightest clue

On how to survive

****** for greener pastures

I know dudes in South America

Germany and Spain

Living like criminals

On the run

Dodging passports

Trying to make your way up

Because the nation in a state

Its like ellen jo once said

Its critical the rich bask in the affluence

Villas, cribs, between lekki and FCT

Leaders with kids schooling abroad

Wife touring the world

Bank account swole up

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Trying to scrape enough

To get on the bus

From allen junction to CMS

Envelopes filled with CVs

Stuck on ******

Next to me some dude in his ride

Watching tv

And looking over fat as hell

Government official with the escort

They loot us and buy police protection

Where is the lords intervention

What

They don’t care about us

Everybody wants to get a piece

Of the national cake

But I swear to God im a boss

Till the lord revisits

all we really got is us

What’s the source

They don’t care about us

Everybody wants to get a piece

Of the national cake

But I swear to God im a boss

Till the lord revisits

All we really got is us

Same faces, same hands

Pulling the strings

From behind the curtains

Puppet masters running the show

Either you balling or you dying

The government still shit

Dey still lying

Get rich or die trying

Folks sighing

So broke they wishing for death

Abeg, young kids now live on the net

Throwing scam mails across the globe

Proposing dodgy ventures

Some accept

But tell em fuck off

The streets are with poverty

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Ngor youths stills fighting over water

School and shelter

Oil companies held hostage

Installations blown up

Militant youths they own up

Cus they fucking up the habitat

With very minimal compensation

Its all confrontation

In Chinua Achebe’s words

Nigerians biggest problem is bad leadership

What, lets make a change men

They don’t care about us

Everybody wants to get a piece

Of the national cake

But I swear to God im a boss

Till the lord revisits

all we really got is us

What’s the source

They don’t care about us

Everybody wants to get a piece

Of the national cake

But I swear to God im a boss

Till the lord revisits

All we really got is us

Outro