Baba Are You Proud

"Baba, Are You Proud?"

(Intro – soft guitar, Zamrock vibes)

Eh Baba...

Can you hear me?

Your boy is talking...

From the heart...

(Verse 1)

I grew up seeing fathers

Holding their children's hands,

Teaching them how to fight,

Teaching them how to stand.

Me, I learned from the streets,

From the pain and the tears,

Looking at other families,

Asking God through the years...

Why was my chair empty?

Why was my road so long?

Why did I have to learn

How to be strong alone?

Every birthday candle,

Every school parade,

I kept looking for your face,

But you never came.

(Pre-Chorus)

Would I smile a little more?

Would I carry less pain?

Would I be a different man

If you had stayed?

(Chorus – Afrobeat/Amapiano)

Baba, are you proud of me?

Can you see what I've become?

The little boy you left behind

Kept moving on.

Baba, are you proud of me?

I'm standing on my feet.

An engineer, leading men,

Making history.

Though you were never here,

I carried on somehow.

Baba, are you proud...

Are you proud of me now?

(Amapiano Log Drum Drop)

Yoh... yoh...

Life was hard...

But your boy survived...

Your boy survived...

(Verse 2)

There were days I needed guidance,

Needed someone by my side.

Someone to say,

"My son, you'll be alright."

I made mistakes,

I lost my way,

Fought battles in the dark.

Trying to build a man

With a father's missing part.

But look at me now,

Province looking to me.

Heading a department,

Carrying responsibility.

The same boy who cried alone,

Now people call "Boss".

Funny how God can build a king

From what the world called loss.

(Pre-Chorus)

Maybe I would've been stronger,

Maybe I would've been free.

But maybe these scars

Made the man you see.

(Chorus)

Baba, are you proud of me?

Can you see what I've become?

The little boy you left behind

Kept moving on.

Baba, are you proud of me?

I'm standing on my feet.

An engineer, leading men,

Making history.

Though you were never here,

I carried on somehow.

Baba, are you proud...

Are you proud of me now?

(Bridge – Zamrock guitar solo underneath)

I forgave the silence...

I forgave the years...

I forgave the questions...

I forgave the tears...

And though I missed your love,

I found my own way through.

Still, I'd give anything

For one conversation with you.

(Final Chorus – choir backing vocals)

Baba, are you proud of me?

I hope you see me now.

The boy became a man somehow.

Baba, are you proud of me?

I've come farther than I dreamed.

And every mountain that I climbed

Was harder than it seemed.

The world sees an engineer,

A leader standing tall.

But inside is still your son...

Who wanted you most of all.

(Outro)

Eh Baba...

I made it...

I just wish...

You were here to see it...