SABABU (SKC/Awa Démé/Mamadou Diabaté)
(The Reason) Wait For Me (2012)

Life is short and time is swift

The river is long and the boat’s adrift

Life is short and people get lost

You got to do what you can, you got to do what you must

 

Sababu (The reason)

I’m waiting

Sababu (The reason)

I’m waiting

Sababu (The reason)

I’m waiting

Jarabi ma nyi de ! (Being in love isn’t good)

 

I hide out in the shadows, biding my time

Dreaming of the glorious and divine

Fever is rising and it won’t abate

Ain’t no hiding from love, ain’t no flying from fate

 

Heeyi ! Sorio ! Kabako ! (Hey! Listen up! An amazing affair!)

N be kanu barika d’aw ye (I respect you for the love you bring me)

N be jigi le barika d’aw ye (I respect you for being my hope)

Jigiyamògòw man ca (People you can count on aren’t many)

Layidumògòlu dògòyara (There are fewer people that keep their promise)

N be kanu barika da (I thank you for being my love)

N be jigi barika da iyee! (I thank you for being my hope)

 

He that will not when he may,

When he will he shall have nay

Decisions made without care and faith

At the end of the day gonna come back ricocheting

 

Heeyi ! Sorio ! Kabako ! (Hey! Listen up! An amazing affair!)

Bi ma dinye dan (It’s not today the world was made)

N be kanu barika da (I thank you for being my love)

N be jigi le barika (I thank you for being my hope)

Jigiyamògòw man ca (People you can count on aren’t many)

Layidumògòlu dògòyara (There are fewer people that keep their promise)

N be kanu barika da (I thank you for being my love)

N be jigi barika da iyee! (I thank you for being my hope)

 

Got no shoes on baby
Got no head on baby

 
 
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