When Rivers Cry (Feat Common) - Somi/Common

作词：Somi/Common

作曲：Somi/Toru Dodo/Cobhams Asuquo

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 oh oh oh oh

They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

They cry oh oh oh oh 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 oh oh oh oh

They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

They cry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

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

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 oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh