Текст песни Distance (GT Remix) - Gabriel Teodros

Ashes

Acid rain, shanty town and the market crashed
One pair of sandals, baby that's all that we have
What was always solid disappeared lightning fast
All we got is fam
In the moment, no time to plan
When the bombs blast
You get out and run fast
As bullets chase
Gather your love and don't look back
What we hold in our hands is worth less than an empty flask
I'm water praying for the crops
And to wash past pains clean
All scarred by our memory
New country
No trauma therapy here to intervene
We lean to the street families
Clan loyalty
The stories that we know here are pain and addiction
Thin line between life and death
Feel the friction
In my countryman's eyes, look alive
Feel the distance
If everything you knew was just gone in an instant
And every day in some way
You had to relive it

They wonder why we don't sleep most nights
What if ghosts haunted you through your whole life
Land, people, love we lost
Africa captures all my thoughts
Family yeah, and all my heart
I promise to do my part
I don't know how
But with all I got
And I learned from hip-hop

I'm at home, dusty feet in a gojo
Sipping bunna, eating kolo
While my flows go international
Downloaded on dirt roads
From reservations to the Central
And it's all home
I'm ghetto known
Feet roam like refugees
Through the Sahara
Rep Addis and Asmara
Plus Nile waters and every land that it touches
Love is when the exiled finally can reunite
With their tribe lost
Me and my kind cross three continents
Roots, not obvious
In truth I'm an audience to ancestors moving me
Renewal
When I do this music they are free
I paint from my pain
It makes beautiful language
Unusual, dismantled, bodies dance in moonlight
Hideous scene
We try to strike with our hands tied
The weight of all this pressure
They know we all are precious
And they can not oppress us
Forever
We will claim
Our names, our culture and way of life back
Into the future
Visionaries that can see the past
Sankofa
Dragon child on a new path

They wonder why we don't sleep most nights
What if ghosts haunted you through your whole life
Land, people, love we lost
Africa captures all my thoughts
Family yeah, and all my heart
I promise to do my part
I don't know how, but with all I got
And I learned from hip-hop