K’naan - Somalia lyrics

La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la (Ugh)
La la la la la (yeah) la la la la la
La la la la la (Somalia)
La la la la la (yeah)

I spit it for my block it’s an ode
I admit it here, the city code is "lock and
Load" any minute is rock-and-roll
And you rock and roll and
Feel your soul leaving
It’s just the wrong dance that'll
Leave you not breathing
I’m not particularly proud
Of this predicament, but
I’m born and bred in this
Tenement I'm sentimental what!
Plus, it’s only right to represent
My hood and whatnot so I’m about to do it in
The music in the movies Cut!
To the chase, pan across to the face
I'm right there
Freeze frame on the street name oops
Wait a minute
This is where the streets have no
Name and the drain of sewage
You can see it in this boy
How the hate is brewing
'Cause when his tummy tucks in, fuck
The pain is fluid so what difference does it
Make entertaining through it?
Some get high, mixing coke and gunpowder
Sniffing she got a gun but could have
Been a model or physician
So what you know about the
Pirates terrorize the ocean?
To never know a singe day
Without a big commotion?
It can’t be healthy just to live
With such a steep emotion
And when I try and sleep
I see coffins closing
So what you know about the
Pirates terrorize the ocean?
To never know a single day
Without a big commotion?
It can’t be healthy just to live
With such a steep emotion
And when I try and sleep
I see coffins closing

Yeah! Yeah!

We used to take barbed wire
Mold them around discarded bike tires
Roll 'em down the hill on foot, blazing
Now, that was our version
Of mountain bike racing
("Damn!") Do you see why it’s amazing?
When someone comes out of
Such a dire situation
And learns the English language just
To share his observation?
Probably get a Grammy without
A grammar education
So fuck you, school, and fuck you
Immigration! And all of you who thought
I wouldn’t amount to constipation and now
I’m here without the slightest
Fear and reservation
They love me in the slums
And the Native reservations
The world is a ghetto
Administering deprivation
But mommy didn’t raise no fool did she, Hoyo?
I promised I would get it
And remain strictly loyal
'Cause when they get it then
They let it all switch and spoil
But I just illuminated it like kitchen foil
A lot of mainstream niggas
Is yapping about yapping
A lot of underground niggas
Is rapping about rapping
I just wanna tell you
What’s really crack-a lackin'
Before the tears came down
This is what happened
So what you know about the
Pirates terrorize the ocean?
To never know a singe day
Without a big commotion?
It can’t be healthy just to live
With such a steep emotion
And when I try and sleep
I see coffins closing
So what you know about the
Pirates terrorize the ocean?
To never know a single day
Without a big commotion?
It can’t be healthy just to live
With such a steep emotion
And when I try and sleep
I see coffins closing

La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la (Ugh) la la la la la (yeah)
La la la la la (Somalia) la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la