The Other Side
A song made by Benjaminkomolafe
The Other Side
A song made by Benjaminkomolafe
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🎙️ INTRO (Spoken by Yemisi Komolafe)
"Ọmọ mi...
Bí òru bá pẹ́...
Owurọ máa dé...
Carry your dream with humility.
Never forget where love first found you."
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LYRICS
Verse 1
I was born where the silence spoke louder than names,
Where lanterns painted little suns inside our room.
Rain found the holes before sleep ever found my eyes,
Yet Mama's mama still smiled like heaven knew.
Rice was a visitor...
Hope was our daily bread.
We learnt to laugh before we learnt to cry...
So hunger would forget our names.
Outside the window...
The road kept stretching somewhere...
Like it knew a place
My feet had never seen.
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Pre-Chorus
Every night...
The stars kept whispering,
*"Come and see...
There's another life waiting..."*
But every morning...
Grandma's hands held mine,
And my heart stayed behind.
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Chorus
How do I leave the hands
That carried me through storms?
How do I chase tomorrow
Without breaking yesterday?
If I cross this river...
Will I still remember home?
Or will the wind rename me
Where nobody knows my soul?
*"Baba mi...
Má jẹ́ kí n sọnù..."*
I'm standing where the dream begins...
And where goodbye feels like betrayal.
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Verse 2
Our compound carried everybody's pain.
Children became older than their birthdays.
Dreams wore torn slippers...
Walking barefoot through dusty streets.
Every face had a prayer...
Nobody knew whose God would answer first.
Sometimes I packed my little bag...
Then unpacked it before sunrise.
Because leaving felt like
Stealing tomorrow
From the woman
Who gave me yesterday.
Her back bent lower every season...
Still she whispered,
*"Lọ ọmọ mi...
Ayé ń dúró de ẹ."*
But fear...
Fear has a familiar voice.
"What if the city swallows your name?"
"What if success never learns your face?"
*"What if home disappears...
Before you find your way back?"*
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Pre-Chorus
Still...
Something keeps calling
From beyond these dusty roads.
Not louder than Grandma's prayers...
Just...
Longer.
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Chorus
How do I leave the hands
That carried me through storms?
How do I chase tomorrow
Without breaking yesterday?
If I cross this river...
Will I still remember home?
Or will the wind rename me
Where nobody knows my soul?
*"Olúwa...
Ṣọ mí."*
Every dream begins
Where comfort ends.
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Bridge
Maybe...
The bird was never born
To fear the sky.
Maybe...
The river doesn't hate the mountain.
It simply has to flow.
Maybe home...
Isn't the place I leave behind.
Maybe home...
Is every prayer
That follows me.
Grandma...
If I become the man
You already see...
Promise me...
You'll forgive my footsteps.
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Final Chorus
I'll carry your prayers
Inside every road.
I'll carry your laughter
Through every unknown.
If I lose my way...
May your voice become my north.
If I should fall...
May your faith teach me to rise.
"Ìbùkún yín ni mo mú lọ..."
"Adúrà yín ni aṣọ mi..."
Beyond the fear...
Beyond the tears...
There's a child
Still running
Toward the life
He has never seen.
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🎙️ OUTRO (Spoken by Yemisi Komolafe)
"Ọlọrun yóò tọ́ ọ.
Go with courage.
The road may change your life...
But never let it change your heart.
Home will always know your name."
