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The year is 1981, 1st of May
Labour day, Yvonne delivers
Outside the house of rainmakers
Imana worshippers
and Imandwa believers
Your mother's family names you after your father's nationality
Quickly you learn to decode ancestral and speak survival
Some day you'll speak in tongue and preach revival
Yeah
You're six, you sleep on a torn mattress with popping springs
Mice blowing kisses on your wounds while feasting on your finger skin
Unbothered, your deep sleep is a blessing and a shield
Protecting you from the harsh reality outside and parasites inside
Your belly - a can of worms fighting for that ugali & beans single meal
You had at 5pm, code for both lunch and dinner time
Yeah I know why you're scared of the dark and have a hard time putting on weight
But don't you worry about them monsters and nightmares, it's all in your head

It's crazy how life changes
Insane how we try to stay the same
It's crazy how life changes

The year is 1989, you move to a rocky place
Where the soil is rare to find, and you keep losing your toenails
There goes another one, piss on it and keep going
Laugh at the pain, stay in the game, everybody going through it
Whether it's marbles, football, or kung fu
It's always a fight, always something to prove
So acting and adapting becomes a part of you
When it gets tiring find asylum in the cradle of your mind
Stare at the flame dancing till the candlelight dies out
Zoning out to tune into your own world is a superpower
You try to act like a steel but baby you're a moonflower
Yeah
You're nine and for the first time you hold a uzi
At sixteen it'll be an ak47 with three magazines
So excited you and your homies begin crafting toy guns from trees
Police-bandit got you feeling like Rambo
Mayi mayi myth got you believing you're immortal
I know why you're still confused about guns
Don't worry you'll heal, someday you'll let bygones be bygones

It's crazy how life changes
Insane how we try to stay the same
It's crazy how life changes

The year is 1993, last memory of your father
Bittersweet, you wonder if he ever thinks about your mother
Does he know she never trusted men again to have another child
Soon you'll grow up, slowly but surely protected by your mother's side
You'll find your wild side, your kind side, your tribe
You'll find love, get heartbroken
Run away before you feel abandoned
You'll try again, you'll fail again and again
You'll cry inside, until you and you become friends
And you accept you as you
Then some day you'll write your story from a neighborhood
With mansions worth quarter million dollars from your view
Dreaming of a stage full of lights and a crowd full of lighters
Coming to be moved and inspired by people like you, they call writers

It's crazy how life changes
Insane how we try to stay the same
It's crazy how life changes

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