Soldier (feat. Tomi Owó) Lyrics

Soldier (feat. Tomi Owó) - M.I Abaga

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Verse 1: Tomi Owó]

Another day, another dawn, and you're still in the morning

See the sun high up where it belongs, but to you it's still morning

'Cause at first light the battle begin, there is that and I'm your patient

In there now or never, you wanna surrender

'Cause this is your fight, you runner

Whenever you're ready, wanna

Fight under your own fear, don't let it bring it to your kneels

'Cause this is your fight, you runner

Whenever you're ready, wanna

[Chorus: Tomi Owó]

Lift your head soldier

Pick your head up solider, don't cry

Lift your hеad soldier

Pick your head up solider, don't cry

[Verse 2: MI Abaga]

Hmm, yеah

They tell us boys don't cry but they don't tell us why

So when tears starts to fill up my eyes, I wanna hide

We talk about it like it's a badge of honour, our pride

But guess who is the leading victims of suicide?

It's young men who don't know the way to emote

Could be dealing with stress or his heart could be broken

All this hurdle, it's starts partly when fatherling, now we're fathers, we'd carven them into hard men just starving for hope

And now the world is changing rapidly, happily, I embrace it

But learning how to be a good man is proving evasive

See toxic masculinity in it we all will suffer, but all I know is be tougher to feed and protect my lover

And yeah, It's what I was taught that I must be

And honestly I wanna be better but promise me

That you can show me how I will not punish or tarnish me

It's no laughing matter, no comedy

I'm asking for a [?]

[Chorus: Tomi Owó]

Lift your head soldier

Pick your head up solider, don't cry

Lift your head soldier

Pick your head up solider, don't cry (Soldier, don't cry, soldier, don't cry

Verse 3: MI Abaga]

This is for the fathers, the husbands, the soldiers, the workers

The young men trynna to be good to find purpose in a world telling you to be strong or else you [?]

It hurts that we've brought them to earth just to scratch the surface

I asked ten of my female friends to share their lens

To tell me what's it like to be like them, to get a sense

Six of them had been raped and all ten had been assaulted

I halted, I couldn't believe how we are faulted

Nighty five percent of crimes end in loss of lives

How 'bout us?, we the killers, we the cult, the gangs, the cops, the serial murderers, we the ones at night making the world unsafe, and what we need is a son for light

I'm penning this, hoping that when you're ramming this, we can start from the genesis, every man should be feminists

Find intimate the world a better place, I know it's hard, I see you cover your tears but what you gon' do about those scars

[Chorus: Tomi Owó]

Lift your head soldier

Pick your head up solider, don't cry

Lift your head soldier

Pick your head up solider, don't cry

Lift your head soldier

Lift your head soldier

Pick your head up solider, don't cry

Lift your head soldier

Lift your head soldier