Show Dem Camp - Duade lyrics

I don't think we realise what this crazy
Place does to our psyche man
You know like we don't even have
Any outlets to talk over here
We feel like being a man means, we
Have to swallow everything, chest everything
Keep it inside when I was young
They use to ask me
What are you doing in the kitchen? or guy
Why are you crying? are you a
Child? are you a baby? that's
Real stuff they used
To tell us so you grow up thinking
That you can't talk to anybody
You can't be vulnerable, you can't express
Yourself to anyone, and
In this crazy jungle that we live in again
This mad type of society where you really
Need to talk, you need to find ways to
Express to open up emotionally you know
They view it as some kind
Of weakness it's mad

Mini sane mini ofiɔ ba ni magbojo omli
Akɛɛ hii afe hii eh ni yei afee yei eh
Akɛɛ hii wor pii

But I got something else to say
You come with me let’s play game
Where you hide and I seek
To find the meaning
Why you won’t show me the weak in you
You hide and I seek to find the reason
Why you won’t let yourself go baby

Owele wa old duade owele wa old duade
I’d take you on a journey owele wa old duade
Take you on a journey owele wa old duade
Take you on a journey

Are you not supposed to be a man
Why you crying I don't understand
Shey you need someone to hold your hand
I bury thoughts of being vulnerable
Beneath the sand
She asking questions that's exposing
All my inner scams
I feel like letting go, make I open up
Previous babes don dey wonder why
I'm slow to trust
I put my feelings in the chamber
Then I load it up but I never shoot
It's like we fear the truth
She trying to take me on a
Journey and I no dey fight
Like she's taking me to market
Wey I no dey price
Cos I'm hoping that she'll save
Me from my own advice
She keeps telling me to take a
Chance and roll the dice
But this is life always feeling
That there's something more
Always asking "Wale what is
It you running for?"
My uncle told me you should always
Make them love you more
Now I know that he was scared
And it's not his fault, not at all

But I got something else to say
You come with me let’s play game
Where you hide and I seek
To find the meaning
Why you won’t show me the weak in you
You hide and I seek to find the reason
Why you won’t let yourself go baby
Owele wa old duade owele wa old duade
I’d take you on a journey owele wa old duade
Take you on a journey owele wa old duade
Take you on a journey

If ya listening it might be too late
You're probably a victim
Of conditioning and too dazed
To wake and smell the bouquet
Still you try rise from grass to
Grace as if ya Tuface
Weight of the world up on ya shoulders
As you start a new day
I take a mental Polaroid bumping vintage Lupe
As foundation's built on quicksand
Submerge under monsoon rain and these days
Stormy seasons last a little longer
Spending more time in traffic
Than reading to my daughter but
I must be stronger cause it
Hasn't killed this yet
In this place where you here one day
And could be gone the next
Swear that whole Tbills episode
Struck a chord in my chest
If you're living here in Naija
Ya some form of depressed
Yes you heard correct
It's a wonder how we manage
To be more concerned with if Wiz
Is dating Tiwa savage
Than the interior decorations of
Our mental palace
The stress is post traumatic
I pray my son doesn't catch it but

But I got something else to say
You come with me let’s play game
Where you hide and I seek
To find the meaning
Why you won’t show me the weak in you
You hide and I seek to find the reason
Why you won’t let yourself go baby
Owele wa old duade owele wa old duade
I’d take you on a journey owele wa old duade
Take you on a journey owele wa old duade
Take you on a journey