When Rivers Cry-Somi/Common

[ti:When Rivers Cry] [ar:Somi/Common] [al:The Lagos Music Salon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]When Rivers Cry - Somi/Common [00:39.97]Written by：Toru Dodo/Lonnie Rashid Lynn/Cobhams Asuquo/Laura Audrey Kabasomi Kakoma [01:19.95]Feet crushing plastic [01:21.83]Moving windows tossing bottles dry [01:25.22]I can't get past it [01:26.76]Waste and dust still choking road and sky [01:30.44]The trees remember days of plenty [01:33.45]Before rivers cried [01:35.77] [01:37.08]Now they cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [01:42.64]They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [01:47.90]They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [01:53.22]They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [01:58.43] [02:20.60]Winds carry sorrow [02:22.24]While forgetful dreamers pass us by [02:25.70]Temperatures rising [02:27.42]No one stopping just to wonder why [02:31.05]Old men recall the kindness of the sun [02:34.50]Before the rivers cried [02:37.08] [02:37.92]Now [02:38.30]They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [02:43.20]They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [02:48.52]They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [02:53.82]They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [02:59.83]The rivers tell a story of [03:01.14]God's reign and glory [03:02.58]Pay homage to the land of those that came before me [03:05.19]The land of the mother and the first man discovered [03:07.83]Look overseas and see waters that are troubled [03:10.46]The bridge somewhere in the truth and the kids [03:12.92]Somewhere in the spirit of the kids the truth lives [03:15.62]I died many times many lives just to live again [03:18.57]Contemplating on where my life and river blends [03:21.18]I was ignorant to the earth and what we did to it [03:24.02]Never seek to find yeah I hid from it [03:26.38]So when the rivers cried I never felt the sentiment [03:29.12]Until the hurricanes that's when I caught wind of it [03:31.67]My paps said the hurricanes was the ancestors [03:34.56]Reminding us of who we are and our transgressions [03:37.19]Lessons of the mother and the waves [03:39.44]I'm the sun reflecting the earth these days [03:42.25]Green belts tug at the necks and bellies [03:45.36]Of our beasts and times [03:47.57]Shortsighted leaders [03:49.20]Flush with irony and oil mines [03:52.78]Eroding shorelines lap at memory [03:55.79]While the rivers cry [03:59.41]Now [03:59.79]They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh [04:05.76]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [04:09.96] [04:10.83]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [04:15.45] [04:16.20]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh