“The Source” featuring Ibrahima Faye
(A. Pascoe, S. Kelly, I. Faye)

Intro (Ibrahima Faye)


Ndox mooy man (Water is me)
Ndox mooy yow (Water is you)
Mooy li saxal dund gi (It is the root of life)
Ci kaw suf (On this Earth)

Ndox mooy man (Water is me)
Ndox mooy yow (Water is you)
Mooy li saxal dund gi (It is the root of life)
Ci kaw suf (On this Earth)

Ndox monu taxa wax (It gives us speech)
Ndox monu taxa dox (It gives us strength)

There are those who need water
They wake up with the sun to walk miles and miles in the hot African sun

Baawnaan, danuy baawnaan (We pray for water)
Ngo xii ngox (Amen)


Now is the time, now is time to stand up
Now is the time to call for the rain
Let the trees grow, the grass rise

Baawnaan , danuy baawnaan (We pray for water)
Ngo xii ngox (Amen)

Verse

It all started on the river
Before black folks were called…
Damn, that’s a long time ago
Well that terms more recent
Than you may imagine
The Niger, Congo, Nile made it happen
The sources of civil livin’
Men and women
Existing
All in accordance to the rhythm
Their spirits must be livid
From all the monkey business
Ridiculous depicted
F**k D.W. Griffith
Black woman is the source of the birthing of nations
F**k what you heard
Peep the girth of my statements
Thick!
Well aware the connotations of it
Its time to go in
Ain’t no masturbation with it
‘Cuz you’re gonna need assistance
To feel what we’re coming with
Thick!
Like African lips, African hips
Outsiders still-
They infatuated by it
Sen- sational spit
Saturate mental fabrics
We the architects
How we get labeled as savage?
Throughout history
Of course we’ve been bred, born naked
Bought, sold, kept separate
Burnt, drowned, dissected
Whipped, lynched, infected
Labored, met with discredit
Now these labels pay us for diss records
But its deeper than-
Talkin’ bout the things we’ve been victim off
It’s complex, like that clear liquid that’s in my cup

Chorus:
They wanna know where it’s coming from
You already where it’s coming
They wanna know where we coming
You already where we coming from

They wanna know where it’s coming from
You already where it’s coming
They wanna know where we coming
You already where we coming from

Outro (Ibrahima Faye)

L’eau C’est moi (Water is me)
L’eau C’est toi (Water is you)
L’eau C’est la vie (Water is life)
L’eau C’est l’humanite (Water is humanity)


La agua es yo (Water is me)
La agua es tu (Water is you)
La agua es la vida (Water is life)
La agua es la humanidad (Water is humanity)