The fact that a thing goes the way it goes Doesn’t mean it was meant to go that way But in the end, however way it goes, If you follow goodness, it will go your way. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
English
IT‘S CALLED LOVE (Rap/2009)
It‘s Called Love (Rap/2009). This Version is from my “Le Chuxx” album, released in 2009.
The original rap version was released in 2003. And the Afrobeat song version was released in 2007.
Le Chuxx album:
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WRONG IS SOMETIMES RIGHT
The right one will come When your education is done. Until then every wrong one Is the right one so you can become The right one When your transformation Is done. Wrong is sometimes right Because it’s what you need right now Some people’s day is the night That’s when they can work and plough Blindness strengthens inner sight You intuit your way through things somehow And a bark is just as useful as a bite. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
ROADLESS CITY (acoustic/live/by the River Main, Frankfurt)
Roadless City
from my album “Don’t Walk Away From the Path”
https://listen.music-hub.com/kiEAKO
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DON’T WASTE TIME
I don‘t waste time. There is no wasted second Or minute or hour in my day. A day with me Is a month with many others Every moment counts everyday. Every thought, word, Every action, emotion, every intuition Everything has a role to play Everybody I meet Has something to return to me Or is someone I must rightly repay. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
GIVING TIME AND SPACE
When someone asks for time and space
Give it to them
They are not necessarily running away from you
They might really just need time and space
To come to terms with the fact of you.
And if they are running away from you
Then there’s no need to want them close to you.
It’s not an insult or an attack
It’s just a chance to find true happiness for both of you
Each in their own way, own time and own space.
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Poems from the inner river
NATIVE
NATIVE
from my album „First Nature“ (2016)
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WATERBORNE
There are many stories in the water But not all will flow away Some will sink down to the bottom With all the things they have to say Buried in the depths of a culture That runs like a river from yesterday Stories of survival of slavery and torture And chains and whips and treachery While you swim and while you sail While you drink and wash your tears away Bitten by sharks, swallowed by whales Black took an L, but is still in play Secrets survive millennia in the water Powers of civilisation do not decay Many are still lying at the bottom Burning to build new glories another day. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
HUNGRY FOR HUMAN LOVE
The world is a buffet All you can meet Humanity at the venue All you can greet Kindness on the menu All you can treat Love and pain the entree All you can eat. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
UCHE THE ENIGMA
„Uche the Enigma“
from my album „First Nature“ (2016)
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