Sankofa Lyrics

[Chorus: Kwame Write]

What you forget be how
All the things wey go come
Already come before

When you dey climb go up
Make you no step some bro’
Go meet em when you drop
x 2

[Verse 1: Kwame Write]

Sankofa, it be time travel phenomena
Violate laws of physics and the calendar
Forget theoretical things, this be practical
Time machine wormhole, let’s go for past answers
Feeling a wave, Fela’s Lobitos on stage
Music, resilience and rage
Reset the fiction of days
A million ways, you fi make a difference
Engaging diaspora, with Afrique resistance
It for trickle down from base of the presidents
1%ers for hear wonna arguments
Past be the future, present be evidence
Religion wars, reveal the reckonings
Kai ancestors, these days of turbulence
As the bird dey turn him neck
Emergence, ready sense
Immerse in what we lost with every chance

[Refrain: Tiphaine Deligne]

Sankofa
x 4

[Chorus: Kwame Write]

What you forget be how
All the things wey go come
Already come before

When you dey climb go up
Make you no step some bro’
Go meet em when you drop
x 2
Sankofa


[Bridge: Kwame Write]

The universe be yours
You for move against all odds

The universe be yours
You for move against all odds
x 3

[Verse 2: Kwame Write]

Sankofa be go back and take your victory
Tell your own story, capture your history
Make impossible possible, curiosity
Escape the city small, tap in the mysteries
Visit the village, new age integrity
Process the spillage, bring back your ebony
Go back and relate, connect community
Love you and not hate, your own identity


[Refrain: Kwame Write + Tiphaine Deligne]

Sankofa
x 4

[Chorus: Kwame Write]

What you forget be how
All the things wey go come
Already come before

When you dey climb go up
Make you no step some bro’
Go meet em when you drop
x 2


[Bridge: Kwame Write + Tiphaine Deligne]

The universe be yours...Sankofa
You for move against all odds...Sankofa
x 3
The universe be yours
You for move against all odds
x 2