M.I Abaga, Tomi Owó - Soldier lyrics

Another day, another dawn
And you're still in the morning
See the sun high up where it belongs
But to you it's still morning
'Cause at first light the battle begin
There is that and I'm your patient
In there now or never, you wanna surrender
'Cause this is your fight, you runner
Whenever you're ready, wanna
Fight under your own fear
Don't let it bring it to your knees
'Cause this is your fight, you runner
Whenever you're ready, wanna

Lift your head soldier
Pick your head up solider, don't cry
Lift your hеad soldier
Pick your head up solider, don't cry

Hmm, yеah they tell us boys don't cry but
They don't tell us why
So when tears start to fill up my eyes
I wanna hide
We talk about it like it's a badge of honour
Our pride but guess who is the
Leading victims of suicide?
It's young men who don't know
The way to emote
Could be dealing with stress or
His heart could be broken
All this hurdle, it's starts partly
When fathering, now we're fathers
We'd carven them into hard men
Just starving for hope and now the world is
Changing rapidly, happily, i embrace it
But learning how to be a
Good man is proving evasive
See toxic masculinity in it
We all will suffer
But all I know is be tougher
To feed and protect my lover and yeah
It's what I was taught that I must be
And honestly I wanna be better but promise me
That you can show me how I
Will not punish or tarnish me
It's no laughing matter, no comedy
I'm asking for a

Lift your head soldier
Pick your head up solider, don't cry
Lift your head soldier
Pick your head up solider, don't cry
(Soldier, don't cry, soldier, don't cry)

This is for the fathers
The husbands, the soldiers, the workers
The young men trynna to be good
To find purpose in a
World telling you to be strong
Or else you're worthless
It hurts that we've brought them to
Earth just to scratch the surface
I asked ten of my female
Friends to share their lens
To tell me what's it like to be them
To get a sense
Six of them had been raped and
All ten had been assaulted i halted
I couldn't believe how we are faulted
Nighty five percent of crimes end
In loss of lives
How 'bout us?, we the killers, we
The cults, the gangs, the cops
The serial murderers, we the ones at
Night making the world unsafe
And what we need is a son for light
I'm penning this, hoping that
When you reminisce
We can start from the genesis
Every man should be feminists
Fighting to make the world a better
Place, I know it's hard
I see you cover your tears but what
You gon' do about those scars

Lift your head soldier
Pick your head up solider, don't cry
Lift your head soldier
Pick your head up solider, don't cry
Lift your head soldier
Lift your head soldier
Pick your head up solider, don't cry
Lift your head soldier
Lift your head soldier