The Return

[Sampa]

Mirror mirror

On the wall

Who's the blackest of us all

I said

Mirror mirror

Ooh

On the wall

Who the blackest baby

Yeah

Well well well well well

I know your soul

Huh

You’re the place I call home

I know who you are

Baby

I’ve been known

Since the day you were born

Since the day you were born

[Chorus]

The Return

*8

[Sampa]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Bringing me in on back

Bring me in on fast

Living with my armour I’m

Tryna find me fast

Take me to my soul

Everything I know

I just want my spirit to wander off no more

Everything is here

Everything familiar

Everything I’ve seen and it’s everything I hear

Bring me in on near

Bring me to my soul

Take me to my spirit

And bring me in back home

Because

I’m coming back

I’m coming back

I’m coming back home

*3

I’m coming back home

I’m coming back home

I’m coming home

I’m coming home

I’m coming back home

I’m coming home

[Thando]

Broken, bruised and battered

Wandering this world aimlessly

As the house nigga of this country

As the house nigga of this country

I'd better find myself

Before I breed my self-hate into this world

*2

[Alien]

I’m not here to plead

Or ask for your sympathy

Are you too blind to see

Who’s the blackest?

Is medicine your sole benefit?

Did you develop it to for your menacing?

You wave your arms in victory

The cost of your opportunity

I don’t want ‘em

You’re so clean and brown

So clean and brown

[Jace XL]

Ooh

To tell yourself the truth

Is hard to do

Ooh

The little lies

That build up just to get me through

Ooh

My day to day

My day to day

My day to fade away

Hide these eyes away

From the hard truths that you have to face

The world keeps on turning

It will always change

Accept yourself

Return to late

Return to self

Return your fate

Return to love

Return to love

Return return

Yeah yeah

[Whosane]

The return

The return

The return

The return

Cos tomorrow’s not promised for me

Seeing my single momma

Surviving to struggle this way

(The return)

The return

The return

Of myself

To myself

Yo

This is the real story

I just wanna be back man

I just wanna be back

I wanna be back in the right state of mind

I wanna be back to my happy self

I wanna be back to my passionate mindset

I wanna be me again you know

Cos I

This sounds like I’m tryna do that RnB shit

But yo

Let me slow it down

To

It’s hard out here for a brother and sister

Going through this immigration mindset

We tryna find our own spot in here

And music is my way of expressing

My return

My self

My beginnings

I just wanna be me

I hope you can understand

And that’s where I’m at

So

Return to oneself

Return to the motherland

Return to your mind

Return to everything

Return

[Somali translation:]

Mama said everyone will find their home

Everyone will go back to their homes

No one should forget their home

Mamas teaching