Identity

Lyrics

[Intro]

Uhm
What is sadness?

[Verse 1]

Bearing a title screaming disdain
Niger Area, remind me of the stain
Legacy wrapped round my neck, feel that chain, no?
Identity, never chose
Pain close, rain’s heavier

Walking on old grounds
Footprints filled with sorrow
Everyday new rounds
Fearing what tomorrow
Brings shadowed, past sun's promise feels narrow
Dreaming of liberation
Is this an intervention?

Lips fluent in a foreign tongue
Robbed of my native rhyme
And every syllable spoken
Feels like I did a crime
Language I breath daily
Yet mocked and quizzed yearly
I've mastered their tone and their note
But why should I always denote?
Why is it never enough?

Why should I ear to yours?
Oh, it’s why should I listen to you?

[Verse 2]

Loved ones, friends, scatter
Like leaves blowin' fast
Postcards, no laughter
memories of the past
That green I hold
Stories untold
Judged by its shade, spade called a spade, biases old, resold
In airports and lines
Seeing the signs
All the confines
Treated unkind
User denied
No place to hide
This is your life
Give me the sigh

[Hook]

This is your life
Give me the sigh

[Verse 3]

Interview after interview
Getting No's like a deja vu
Not for a lack of the skill or will
Uphill, a bitter pill
Hey Pal
It’s a No, Pal
You owe Pal
Pay Pal
Sorry it’s hard to decide
Sorry I envy your grind
Sorry I want to remind

Sorry we don't serve your kind
Sorry we don't serve your kind
Sorry we don't serve your kind
Sorry we don't serve your kind

[Verse 4]

Bearing a title screaming disdain
Niger Area, remind me of the stain
Seeking a seat at the table when we the table
Gold in our veins, yet seeking glitter
We are the tale, the song, the teller
Lost in the crowd, just trying to fit her
Wrapped in the shadows, hopes getting thinner
Searching for light, through every corner

Praise the takers, handshake the fakers
Vote in the stealers, blind to the dealers
Pain and deceit
Self-inflicted healers
Dance to the thugs, but silence a thinker
We own the ceilings, choosing the floor
Breaking no chains, chaining ambitions
Seek validation from those who oppress us

[Outro]

Remember when the problem was corruption, EDecoded?
I miss those days
Now people are scared to live
Scared to send their kids to school
Every week there's another story
Another funeral. kidnapping
Another village wiped out
You don't sound angry anymore, EDecoded
You sound heartbroken

Is this sadness?