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Soobax

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Soobax

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Basically, I got beef, I wanna talk to you directly, I

Can't ignore, I can't escape, and that's cause, you

Affect me, you cripple me, you shackle me, you shatter

My whole future in front of me, this energy, is killing

Me, I gotta let it pour like blood, Soobax:

Dadkii waa dhibtee nagala soobax

Dhibkii waa batee nagla soobax

Dhiigi waad qubtee nagala soobax

Dhulkii waad gubtee nagala soobax

So for real, who's to blame, we loose lives over

Qabiil's name, disregard, for the soul, we just don't

Give a f**k no more, left alone, all alone, settle

Your issues on your own, what to do, where to go, I

Got to be a refugee damn, soobax:

Dadkii waa dhibtee nagala soobax

Dhibkii waa batee nagla soobax

Dhiigi waad qubtee nagala soobax

Dhulkii waad gubtee nagala soobax

Mogadishu, use to be, a place where the world would

Come to see, Jaziira, sugunto liida, wardhiigleey iyo

Madiina, Hargeysa, Boosaaso, Baardheere iyo Berbera,

My skin needs to feel the sand the sun, I'm tired of

The cold God damn soobax

Dadkii waa dhibtee nagala soobax

Dhibkii waa batee nagla soobax

Dhiigi waad qubtee nagala soobax

Dhulkii waad gubtee nagala soobax

I guess I could use the last bar to flow, I'm known as

A lyrical rhyme domino, I'm cynical, well, oh now you

Know, put a whole in an emcee like cheerio, they don't

Hear me though, I work for the struggle I don't work

For dough, I mean what I say, I don't do it for show,

Somalia needs all gunmen right out the door.

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