True Story

(Album: True Story - 2007)

Hey hey hey
Timaya (Timaya)
Hey hey hey
Alongside timi
Ooh na true story eh (hey hey)
Ooh na true story eh
Na true story eh
Na true story eh

This one, I say na serious issue oh
I remember that time how I suffer iyo
I dey waka from place to place iyo
Port harcourt to lagos na so I dey go
Eh ah, I come tire oh
Wetin I dey find I no get oh
E better make I start to dey hustle oh
Than make I sit down dey look people oh

Eh ah
Make unuh carry me go eh
If I dey lie, thunder go blow
Eh ah
Water carry me go
If I dey lie, make you swallow me oh
Wetin I dey find, wetin I dey find
Wetin I dey, wetin I dey
Wetin I dey find
Wetin I dey find, wetin I dey find
Wetin I dey, wetin I dey
Wetin I dey find

This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now
This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now

For this life people bad oh
I remember one man he promise me oh
If he tell me say he go help me oh
Come today na come tomorrow (chai)
I come tire oh
Wetin I go do, my brother I no know
Na wetin I dey find I no get oh
All the promises them be voicemail oh
Eh ah, I tire for life oh
Wetin I dey find, I confuse oh

Eh ah
Make unuh carry me go eh
If I dey lie, thunder go blow
Eh ah
Water carry me go
If I dey lie, make you swallow me oh
Wetin I dey find, wetin I dey find
Wetin I dey, wetin I dey
Wetin I dey find
Wetin I dey find, wetin I dey find
Wetin I dey, wetin I dey
Wetin I dey find

This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now
This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now

Everybody wanna back again
Me back again (in life)
This one is a really true story (in life)
Timaya don come to bring another 'tory (in life)
Remember the time I started the journey (in life)
Relatives and friends, all of them dey avoid me (in life)
Thinking of how I started before (in life)
You and you dey abuse me before (in life)
Now, I don dey make am small small (in life)
Relatives and friends, them don dey run come (oh oh)
Shebi na you dey call me olofofo (oh oh)
Telling me say I done dey kolo (oh oh)
Tell family and friends say I smoke igbo (eh eh)
Now me done be the king, I dey lead (eh)

This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now
This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now

This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now
This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now

This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now
This is my story
This is my song now
My mama told me
Son, you got to be strong now