When Rivers Cry Lyrics - The Lagos Music Salon - Somi

Feet crushing plastic 

Moving windows tossing bottles dry 

I can't get past it 

Waste and dust still choking road and sky 

The trees remember days of plenty 

Before rivers cried 

Now they cry oh, oh, oh... 

Winds carry sorrow 

While forgetful dreamers pass us by 

Temperatures rising 

No one stopping just to wonder why 

Old men recall the kindness of the sun 

Before the rivers cried 

Now they cry oh, oh, oh... 

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The rivers tell a story of 

God's reign and glory 

Pay homage to the land of those that came before me 

The land of the mother and the first man discovered 

Look overseas and see waters that are troubled 

The bridge somewhere in the truth and the kids 

Somewhere in the spirit of the kids the truth lives 

I died many times many lives just to live again 

Contemplating on where my life and river blends 

I was ignorant to the earth and what we did to it 

Never seek to find. Yeah, I hid from it 

So when the rivers cried, I never felt the sentiment 

Until the hurricanes - that's when I caught wind of it 

My Paps said the hurricanes was the ancestors 

Reminding us of who we are and our transgressions 

Lessons of the mother and the waves 

I'm the sun reflecting the earth these days 

Photos 

Green belts tug at the necks and bellies 

Of our beasts and times 

Shortsighted leaders 

Flush with irony and oil mines 

Eroding shorelines lap at memory 

While the rivers cry 

Now they cry oh, oh, oh...