Dear Father - 8tch

A childhood innocence was drowned in your tears The demons that you fought are feeding your fears The poisoned secrets of your life stand revealed The truth destroys you, its no longer concealed Dear Father, forsaken You knew what you were doing In silence, your violence Has left my life in ruin, yeah In ruin, yeah You preyed upon my flesh then prayed for my soul Belief betrayed by lust, the faith that you stole Indoctrination by a twisted desire The catechism of an evil messiah Dear Father, forgive me I know just what I'm doing In silence, this violence Will leave your life in ruin, yeah In ruin, yeah Preacher of theocracy Hiding your hypocrisy Under a false sanctity Holy phony empathy You have taken my life Now it's your turn to die Can you sleep at night? When you close your eyes Do you think of all the pain from your lies? Or do you deny you're responsible For the victims of the sins you devised? What you gonna tell them when they ask you, well then? Is your conscience pure in your heart? There is no exemption when you seek redemption For all the lives that you've torn apart Your molestations of the cross you defiled A man once holy now despised and reviled You took possession while confessing my sins And now you have to face whatever death brings, yeah Dear Father, forsaken You knew what you were doing In silence your violence Has left my life in ruin, yeah In ruin, yeah, yeah, yeah In ruin, yeah

Dear father I've got your photographs Thank God for photographs hip hip hooray Dear father I know you loved to laugh though In most of your photographs it didn't seem that way Dear father I can't let you go just yet And I still can't forget you walking around Dear father you're starring in my dreams And you're stealing all the scenes where did you go? In my wandering mind I stumble through time I sing through the air I look for you there Dear father I never got to say goodbye I was singing on the River Clyde and I didn't know Dear father I see you dancing still And I think I always will till the day I die Dear father I feel your healing hands As I fall asleep I can plain as the day Dear father you're in my reflection now As I reach out and touch you now where did you go? Dear father I am still curious why You still make me furious it was so long ago Dear father I've got your photographs Thank God for photographs hip hip hooray

What are you thankful for? A lot of times, we get too engrossed on what we don't have Instead of focusing on what we have Because really "what you don't have actually don't count" What you have does It is the fact that we focus way too much on the loss, that makes us not cherish our wins No matter what they are, so we completely ignore them The obstacles don't finish, the race only ends when we leave this world Pending then, it's a marathon, not a sprint So I ask you again, what are you thankful for?

8tch! Baby! Leyin ti mo ji, timo jeun, mo shi insta Mi o ti scroll rara, lesekese mori Binta Iyen ex mi, ton shi text mi, ohun ati new guy e won chill biti winter Ain't gon lie, for real they look so happy though The thing choke me, i think I need an antidote Need to calm myself, i need some photos bro 'Cause my head don wan dey run itself like auto-mode Rili tajo dagba lojosi na ti ra benz Oti kole fun mummy, Iya Rili is really on a flex Dem dey compare, but i'm really tryin' all my best Guess my best ain't shit, they don't see it from my lense Plus e be like say everybody dey move, only me dey stuck Only me dey pushed to the wall, only me dey plugged Only me dey waste my time, only me dey clocked Only me dey for only me, yeah, only me dey lost Growing up, Olanrewaju was such a bright boy These days i'm a joke, food for Okpocha Bright oi? Empty basket, wey dey make mouth, wey dey fade out Naso dem dey talk, it seems my life dey go south But moms gon' tell his boy never to lose hope Heard that so many times e don dey turn scope Blessed me so many times she don dey turn Pope I hope i still got hope other than to off cloth She tells me "breaking through is so vivid" "Got to hold on, be strong and stay rigid" "Shine your light boy, sogbo, do not hide it" "You are God's own, God's zone, God's given" But wait, what if mommy is wrong tho? What if i'm all by myself like a condo? What if my name wont be mentioned in the convo? What if the talent remains unknown like i'm John Doe? 'Cause e be like say the patient dog don dey chop bone Go too legal oma di ilega, u go chop bone You go start to doubt yourself, omo you go turn clone Dem go lick the ice cream finish, omo you go chop cone So I double my grind and go swiftly Heads up, chin up ma guy, we go beastly! Hussle till we flex till the death, we go nipsey! Aim for the goal no dey roam (Rome), we bone Italy Spill all my pain when I get in the booth Voices on hold, mina speak fi di yute Go for the future, hold on to the root False world, but i hope you see the truth, be you False world, but i hope you see the truth, be you False world, but i hope you see the truth, be you False world, but i hope you see the truth, be you