🎤 SONG TITLE: SOME STORIES (Story for the Gods)
By Vickem Eluwa
🎤 INTRO (Call & Response)
Lead: It’s your boy Vickem Eluwa…
Backing: Hmm…
Lead: Some stories no one can tell…
Backing: No one can tell…
Lead:
For this story them throw bombs for church…
Backing: Hmm…
For this story them throw bombs for our market…
Backing: Hmm…
For this story them throw bombs for our schools,
and them carry our children them go…
Backing: Carry them go…
For this story them kill our papa them go…
Backing: Oh no…
For this story them kill our mama them go…
Backing: Oh no…
For this story them kill our children them go…
Backing: Oh no…
(Repeat with emotion rising)
Over many years…
Till today we’re waiting for our children
that went to school… they never returned till date…
Backing: Never returned…
They never returned till date…
They carry our children them go…
Backing: Carry them go…
If I sing am…
they go say our government badooo…
Backing (soft echo): Badoo…
🎶 HOOK (CHORUS)
There’s a story nobody can understand
There’s a story nobody can understand
There’s a story nobody can understand
This is my story but no one can understand
This is my story but no one can understand
This is my story but no one can understand
🔕 SILENCE BRIDGE
(Instrumental… deep pause… heartbeat or soft piano)
🎶 HOOK (REPEAT)
There’s a story nobody can understand… (repeat fully)
🎤 VERSE (Spoken / Emotional Delivery)
I’m not singing a song…
I’m jotting a story to keep for my people…
I’m not singing a song…
I’m writing the pain wey we dey live through…
But I still believe in tomorrow…
Tomorrow go better…
E go better for my people…
🎶 HOOK (CHANT STYLE)
Story for the Gods…
Story for the Gods…
Story for the Gods…
Story for the Gods…
(Repeat with crowd energy / choir effect)
🎶 HOOK (VARIATION – RETURN TO PAIN)
For this story them kill our papa them go…
For this story them kill our mama them go…
For this story them kill our children them go…
For this story them kill our mama and go…
For this story them kill our children and go…
If I sing am…
they go say our government badooo… badoooo…
🎤 OUTRO
This is my story…
This is my story…
This is my story…
This is my story…
Maybe one day…
they will understand my story…