From The Ground Up
A song made by 𝕊𝕚𝕣𝕃𝕦𝕜𝕖 𝕃ℂ™✓🤓
From The Ground Up
A song made by 𝕊𝕚𝕣𝕃𝕦𝕜𝕖 𝕃ℂ™✓🤓
(Intro)
_(Bassline rolls in heavy, followed by a sweet brass horn section)_
Roots... yeah.
Balanda ati musaalu walipesamba bushiiku bumo ukaba pamulu...
Limo ilakosa but flag nshaponyapo... Eh!
From the concrete to the soil.
No silver plate, no golden spoon.
Just the sweat and the toil.
Listen close now...
_(Verse 1)_
Lintu nali umwaiche nalemona kwati nga wakula ifintu fyalyanguka.
Nalemona kwati kukwata efo ulefwaya epo ulefwaila...
Palya naya ndekula, mayo anjebele ati pano Chalo ngatausambilile life yalikosa.
Natampile ukubombesha ninshi nali kasukulu learning how to survive in this world coz I knew I won't get things on a silver plate.
_(Chorus)_
'Cause if I fail today, no rescue team a-come.
No silver chariot a-ride beneath the sun.
I am the one who has to carry this weight.
To break the cycle and to change up the fate.
Oh, Ndabombesha!! I work through the night, and I fight through the day.
To be the pillar for my people, I say!!
_(Verse 2)_
They talk about the colleges and high-degree crowns.
But man was busy just surviving the towns.
The system didn't give me any academic fame.
But the school of hard knocks taught me how to play the game.
Iminwe shandi kuti shamoneka ishakokoboka, but my vision is clear.
I replace every doubt, and I cast out the fear.
They thought we would fall, thought we'd wither and fade.
But look at the foundation that the struggle has made.
(Chorus)_
'Cause if I fail today, no rescue team a-come.
No silver chariot a-ride beneath the sun.
I am the one who has to carry this weight.
To break the cycle and to change up the fate.
Oh, Ndabombesha!! I work through the night, and I fight through the day.
To be the pillar for my people, I say!!
_(Bridge)_
_(Rhythm slows down, horns get softer, highly emotional)_
It started as a mission just to keep myself alive.
But Ba Yahweh bandangile purpose, more than just to survive.
Now I’m lifting up the family, I'm holding up the wall.
When the foundation is strong, the house will never fall.
We give back to the roots, give back to the street.
So the youths coming after have a safe place to meet.
_(Outro)_
_(Dub style - heavy echo and delay on the vocals, bassline fading out)_
Be the pillar... yeah.
Rewriting the narrative.
No more silver plates, we make our own plate now.
Giving back to the community.
From the dirt to the sky.
Hold it up high.Yeah... hold it up high. Higher!!
They call me by the name... Mr Clean Sheet!
Sir LC!!
