MIKONO KWENYE HEWA

Written by M.Ndonga

Chorous:
Mikono kwenye hewa/ Mikono kwenye hewa/
Mikono up juu na kwenye hewa/
Mikono kwenye hewa/ Mikono kwenye hewa/
Mikono up juu na kwenye hewa/
Na wengine mikono chini ndani ya mashati/
Na wengine mikono ndani ya mifuko wazi/
Na wengine mikono kwenye chupa na glassy/
Na wengine mikono up juu na kweney hewa/

Bargames/ type A bargins/
Willing buyers, wiling sellers/
Her name is Stella, looking at the fella, he trying to figure out what to tell her/
Smiles/ hidden agendas/
Each thinks the other to be a pretender/
But they exchange the names/ and they play the games,/with a poker face/ they make a pact on their undone acts/
Now ndio apate physical elevation/ lazima kwanza atoe physical motivation/
Like drinks to get the conversation going and drinks/ to get the party really flowing/
Up and away suddenly it’s a new day / he knew a good lay is some tequila away/
He rolls to his side with a thought on his mind/
cos the last thing he heard was the MC say/

Chorous:
Mikono kwenye hewa/ Mikono kwenye hewa/
Mikono up juu na kwenye hewa/
Mikono kwenye hewa/ Mikono kwenye hewa/
Mikono up juu na kwenye hewa/
Na wengine mikono chini ndani ya mashati/
Na wengine mikono ndani ya mifuko wazi/
Na wengine mikono kwenye chupa na glassy/
Na wengine mikono up juu na kweney hewa/


Marriage/ type A bargain/ willing buyers willing sellers of tomorrow/
Forever is much too long to be alone plus hidden agendas/Like/
Too much history/ too much ambiguity/ a need for binding social security/
So they exchange the names/ with a pompous act/ they make a pact/
Now ndio apate physical elevation/ lazima kwanza atowe physical motivation/
Like a house/to get her and her family talking/ cos the house is in a status quo location/
Up and away/ suddenly it’s a new day/ she knew a good life was a name away/
She rolls to her side with a smile on her mind and pumps the song where the MC says/

Chorous:
Mikono kwenye hewa/ Mikono kwenye hewa/
Mikono up juu na kwenye hewa/
Mikono kwenye hewa/ Mikono kwenye hewa/
Mikono up juu na kwenye hewa/
Na wengine mikono chini ndani ya mashati/
Na wengine mikono ndani ya mifuko wazi/
Na wengine mikono kwenye chupa na glassy/
Na wengine mikono up juu na kweney hewa/


Na wengine, wengine mna jidai/
Na wengine, pengine mmesota/
Na wengine, pengine mnachora/
Na wengine/ pengine mnaroga


Dara ra ra ra….

Chorous:
Mikono kwenye hewa/ Mikono kwenye hewa/
Mikono up juu na kwenye hewa/
Mikono kwenye hewa/ Mikono kwenye hewa/
Mikono up juu na kwenye hewa/
Na wengine mikono chini ndani ya mashati/
Na wengine mikono ndani ya mifuko wazi/
Na wengine mikono kwenye chupa na glassy/
Na wengine mikono up juu na kweney hewa/

Mikono kwenye hewa/
Hewa…

SILENCE LYRICS

Written by M. Ndonga, J. A. Namu, S. Chege

This is what silence means/
This is what silence means/

When they walk into your house and/ sit at your table/
Eat your bread and drink your tea/
You won’t even know cos /you were sleeping/
They didn’t wake you/ from your dreaming/
Your dreams were colored in gold/

Chorus:
They will try and take everything from you/
Shout/ Make some noise/
So scream before they take away your voice too/
Shout/ scream/ make some noise/
They will try and take everything from you/
Shout/ scream/ make some noise/
So scream before they take away your voice too/
Shout/ scream/ make some noise/

This is what silence means/
Remember, remember/
This is what silence means/
Remember, remember/7th July

When you’re walking down the street and/ buy the paper/
Turn on the radio/ watch the news/
Do you really see us when were matching into/
Clouds that sting for rights we thought we won for kids at home/
Do you really see what’s going on/

Chorus:
They will try and take everything from you/
Shout/ Make some noise/
So scream before they take away your voice too/
Shout/ scream/ make some noise/
They will try and take everything from you/
Shout/ scream/ make some noise/
So scream before they take away your voice too/
Shout/ scream/ make some noise/

This is what silence means/
Haki yetu/
Haki yetu/

Kumbka kumbuka/ saba saba/
GSU tear gas town/
Sioni sababu/ machozi na damu/
Kuyasahau/Oh oh oh

The law does not allow for police brutality/
The police are not the judge and jury/ (Utumishi kwa wote)
They are trying to break your voice/
But it is powerful/ not even their blows can stop us
We are unbwogable
Why is my country so dark ( mulika mwizi)
Did you say you have an eight month old alone at home/ I was worried for my six year old/ and I for my 8 year old son/
And I for my 13 year old who is a candidate this year/
And Bilha does not talk/ She carries a baby she might lose in her womb (najihurumia kuwa mkenya)

Chorus:
They will try and take everything from you/
Shout/ Make some noise/
So scream before they take away your voice too/
Shout/ scream/ make some noise/
They will try and take everything from you/
Shout/ scream/ make some noise/
So scream before they take away your voice too/

SAIDIA LYRICS

Written by S. Chege, M.Ndonga

Broken hearts/ from broken love/
That was meant to fill the half empty part of the glass/
Passing on down main street/
Dimmed eyes/ Jaded smiles/
Fading halos hanging over broken winged angels/
Passing on down main street/
And the loneliness from her broken nest/
Fills her heart with a fear that binds her wings/
If she closed her eyes she could be the wind/
Can you hear her soul crying/

Chorus:
Hear me/ help me/
Ninalia saidia saidia/
Ninalia saidia saidia/
Saidia/

Broken banks/ from broken backs/
Now broken dreams drowning in the shallow deep of their making/
Dragging on down main street/
And the preachers word/so often spoken/
Drags my shadow longer than the sun drags her rays across the earth/
Dragging on down main street/
He is frozen in a body that he barely understands/
Sinking in a life that he never even planned/
Hoping to receive with a closed fisted palm/
Can you hear his soul crying/

Chorus:
Hear me/ help me/
Ni nalia saidia saidia/
Ninalia saidia saidia/
Saidia/

These calloused hands/ these blistered feet/
In this 2X4 I just don’t fit/
I’m sweating and chaffing in this cruel heat/
I’m lost and found in this broken beat/
I’m living to be so in/ dying to be so out/
When will these ends ever meet/
I’m huffing and puffing against this wall/
I need/I need to let go/

Chorus:
Hear me/ help me/
Ni nalia saidia saidia/
Ninalia saidia saidia/
Saidia/

ROUNDOFF LYRICS

Written by M. Ndonga, S. Chege, R. Kiboy


Won't you bet your money on me/
Won't you place your money on three/
Won't you put your money on me/
Won't you bet your money on me/
Won't you place your money on Muthoni/

Uh, why do we always round it off/ why do we/
To, the closest decimal point or degree/
Uh, why don’t we explore/ why do we/
Assume that we know everything there is to know/ why do we/
Ingawa
yalivyo/ si hivyo (5times)

Chorus:
Won't you put your money on me/
Won't you bet your money on me/
Won't you place your money on three/
Have some fun and faith I'll surprise you

Won't you put your money on me/
Won't you bet your money on me/
Won't you place your money on Muthoni/

Uh, why is it every time they ask/ what's your name/
Its followed by where are you what do you do/
Uh, why do we always state a job/ why do we/
Think that it covers who we are/ uh, why do we/
Assume we know- why do we/
Everything there is- why do we/
Of a person by a title/
lakini
yalivyo-si hivyo (5times)

Chorus:
Won't you put your money on me/
Won't you bet your money on me/
Won't you place your money on three/
Have some fun and faith I'll surprise you/

Won't you put your, bet your, place your, money/
Money!/
Wont you put your bet your place your/
Money!/
Won't you put your, bet your, place your, money/
Money!/
Wont you put your bet your place your/
Money!/
Wont you put your bet your place your/
Money!/

Uh-uh-uh
Have some fun and faith I'll surprise you/
Money!/
Uh-uh-uh
Have some fun and faith I'll surprise you/
Money!/
Uh- uh-uh
Have some fun and faith I'll surprise you/
Money!

Chorus:
Won't you put your, bet your, place your, money/
Money!/
Won't you put bet place money/
Money!/
Won't you put your, bet your, place your, money/
Money!/
Uh-uh-uh-uh/
Uh-uh-uh-uh, I'll surprise you/
Won't you put your, bet your, place your, money/
Money!/
Won't you put bet place money/
Money!/
Won't you put your, bet your, place your, money/
Money!/

Have some fun and faith I'll surprise you/

ROUND OFF: The story

Yes, put everything that is orange in the orange box. Yes. Everything orange in the box labeled oranges. Because orange equals oranges.
Yes? What?what do you mean not orange? Well, that’s a shame.
But that’s fine we are accommodating, we know that Yellow is really just trying to find its way home. To orange.
And then we add it to the oranges.
Thank you.

HAPPY BREAKUP- The story:

Some argue that It is inherent. And also Generational. The sins of the father upon the son, and thank you very much eve, you and Adam achieved a lasting impression on even the unimagined human in 3027. Well done.
Others argue that it is taught to us, part of the socialisation needed to maintain the balance in this mad house paradise of fools where we own everything by god. Literally.

Me, I don't care for the theories, the theologies. I know it very well.
Guilt.
I know you as intimately as a sweater underarm knows an arm pit. Yes. Our romance? began early and has lingered. Freeze the frames of the past and you will find that it stained my good actions and imprinted its stench on the body of work I offered as daily justification for my existence (though I advice you waste none of your present digging in the archives of past me. I certainly don’t. Plus you will not find me there, I am already risen.)
Your fingers wrapped about my throat, you coated my triumphant declarations so they came out as shaky whispers. Where I deserved to reflect back the stars, you turned my eyes to the ground and cast my shine in dust. Half stating myself, half hating myself, I apologised where I was not sorry, confessed where I felt no remorse, marched on the spot when I was already on the next train to the next thing . And still you were insatiable, master of disguises. I found you in places I created to escape you. Like my sanity, like my prayers, like my future.

So now you have to go.

This song is for you Guilt.

HAPPY BREAKUP LYRICS

Written by M. Ndonga, J. A. Namu, S. Chege,


We need to talk.

Though we are bound at the throat/
and all my words are choked/
even though I gag I must tell you this/
when I last tried to find some happiness I found these signs instead/
that pointed past my better judgement, and around the way I felt/
I was up on crazy-street/took a left on insane avenue/
where I lost my bearing/ the very spot that I met you/
where doubt, fear and disappointment kissed and birthed your heaviness/
YOU corroded me/

Chorus:
Beneath me/ I see a deep green sea/whose water could be healing/a needed therapy/
Release my sanity/ wont deliver me/this pain is killing me/
Release my sanity!

We need to talk!

In this world of shadows you around me build/
You twist the facts I twist my acts/
Your rainless clouds nourish this earth like soil on which I toil/
And how I dig to break its surface/going on and round and round/
Now were back on crazy-street/taking lefts on insane avenue/
where I lost my bearing/ the very spot that I met you/
where doubt, fear and disappointment kissed and birthed your heaviness/
YOU CORRODED ME/

Chorus:
Beneath me/ I see a deep green sea/whose water could be healing/a needed therapy/
Release my sanity/this pain is killing me/wont deliver me/
Release my sanity!

5EVER LYRICS

Written by N. Ndonga, J. A. Namu, R. Kiboy

Birth.

IMEZALIWA (5 times)

This is a new day-oh/ in Swahili we say leo/
Here comes a new way-oh/ new code on the highway-oh/
From Nairobi mpaka lagos/

IMEKUBALIWA (5 times)

Up in your face/shurrup your face (5 times)

Hauwezi make!

Hauwezi make! (5 times)

Five is the new four/
local and global/ make room for one more/
some thing you ain't thought of/
umewachwa ukilala fo fo fo/

FIVE (5 times)

See it

Mo ngienda kumenya/
This is made in Kenya/
Specifically in Penya/
ambia Selector/
5ever sio reja reja/

Up in your face/ shurrup your face (5 times)

Hauwezi make!

HAUWEZI MAKE! (5 times)

IMETAMBULIWA (5 times)

5ever! (5 times)

HAITAULIWA (5 times)

Haiwezi wezi wezi wezi wezi die! (5 times)

Prikata pataka dum, Prikata patapating,
Up in your face/ shurrup your face

MAHABUBA LYRICS

Written by M. Ndonga


Wewe/ Nimpendaye/ ingawa/ bado hujanijia/
Bado/ imani/ Yangu ipo/ haijafifia/
Natuma/ Huu ujumbe/ Kwenye wimbo/ Kwako wewe/

Chorus:
Mahabuba/nakupenda mno/
Nakupenda mno/ nakupenda mno/

Dalili/ Za Mvua/ Ni Mawingu/ Za mapenzi ni mnong'ono/
Mtetemo/ wa roho/ N'do Ishara/ Penzi linakuja, Penzi linakuja, Penzi lina/
Kuja/ Ni tayari/ kupokea/ Huba/

Chorus:
Mahabuba/nakupenda mno/
Nakupenda mno/ nakupenda mno/

Namtakia awe buheri wa afya/
Na kwenye kilio mazito makubwa machungu mapana nipate kumbana/
Kwenye penzi letu tupate kuzama/
Moyo akili apate changanya/
Mawazo maneno mapya kukanganya/
Tuungane nafsi isoweza tengana/
Jitoa, toeka, boeka, achana/
Na-omba awe mwepesi kutizama/
Taratibu mpenzi muungwana/
Tayari penzi moja kuungama/
Kwenye shida na raha kuniandama/

Chorus:
Mahabuba/nakupenda mno/
Nakupenda mno/ nakupenda mno/