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Celebration of decent and meaningful songs with completely ‘clean’ and unpolluted lyrics by Nigerians as well as on Nigeria!
You bled and died that I might live
Your body broken now am healed
Your blood was shed all for my righteousness
And now I walk in victory
Oh, oh and now I walk in victory
I was born to win
I was born to reign in Christ
I am not defeated
No matter what I see
I will always win
Whatever comes my way
I will always win
![Nigerian singer-songwriter Asa [asha] in Paris. Foto: Andreas Terlaak](http://thenigeriandiplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Asa-360-300x300.jpg "Andreas Terlaak")
We don’t have to go
the 360 degrees,
Now it’s time to go the 180
You don’t have to climb
The highest mountain
For all you’re looking for
Is within you
Open the eyes of your mind
Your ears and mouth
As I sing my song
Open the eyes of your mind
Your ears and mouth
As you hear my words o o o
Pa ra ra n pa n pa ra re
I’ll be waiting
I’ll be
We still live in yesterday
Many today they waste away
But never the less it’s never late o
See the times have changed
I thought you knew
That this world, will
Never ever wait for you
The world has gone past times of fighting
So drop your guns and your swords
And let us live all as one
Feet crushing plastic
Moving windows tossing bottles dry
I can’t get past it
Waste and dust still choking road and sky
The trees remember days of plenty
Before rivers cried
Now they cry oh, oh, oh…
Winds carry sorrow
While forgetful dreamers pass us by
Temperatures rising
No one stopping just to wonder why
Old men recall the kindness of the sun
Before the rivers cried
Now they cry oh, oh, oh…
The rivers tell a story of
God’s reign and glory
Pay homage to the land of those that came before me
The land of the mother and the first man discovered
Look overseas and see waters that are troubled
The bridge somewhere in the truth and the kids
Somewhere in the spirit of the kids the truth lives
I died many times many lives just to live again
Contemplating on where my life and river blends
I was ignorant to the earth and what we did to it
Never seek to find. Yeah, I hid from it
So when the rivers cried, I never felt the sentiment
Until the hurricanes – that’s when I caught wind of it
My Paps said the hurricanes was the ancestors
Reminding us of who we are and our transgressions
Lessons of the mother and the waves
I’m the sun reflecting the earth these days