Letter To TINA - Fuse ODG

When it pours, it rains

Makes me appreciate you through the storms, the pain

How could I ever hate you, I closed the door in your face

To myself I couldn’t stay true, now I’m no more ashamed

So TINA let me love you once more

TINA let me love you once more TINA let me love you yeah

I’m like TINA TINA TINA

Baby let me hold you cause my love is getting deeper

Tired of the way they portray you in the media

So I’m trying to bring change in the way that they see ya

Mother who gave birth to the children of Africa

Now were grown making moves on our own

Need to let the world know that your home is a healer

It’s like were fighting the media

They show us the wrong vibe I’ve been reading up

I’m trying to show a different side to what they’re feeding us

Time to regurgitate the lies we’ve been eating up

I know I chose this life

I know I’m just a vessel like Joseph’s wife

It may not be merry but we know we’ll be alright

And some days seeming scary but were holding on tight

And this roads getting cold on this mission of life

My dreams getting bolder as I visualize

I saw Africa rose from through the vision of Christ

To follow me on this road and connect to my vibe

I’m just playing my role in this mission of life

That’s why I had to go and just rate us were at it

I saw so many goals in the children’s eye

But all they wanna show is the children crying

When it pours, it rains

Makes me appreciate you through the storms, the pain

How could I ever hate you, I closed the door in your face

To myself I couldn’t stay true, now I’m no more ashamed

So TINA let me love you once more

TINA let me love you once more TINA let me love you yeah

(TINA-NA-NA-NA eh)

I don’t just make music just to make music

I’m making music to change lives

I’m making music because I’m proud to be African

I’m making music because I want to change the perception of Africa

When I was young, when I was younger…

The perception of Africa was kids with flies around their mouth’s and hunger

and poverty and stuff like that

But were grown now, were successful men, were doing our thing

And its important that if the media don’t show that, we show that as African men

So as Fuse ODG I don’t just want to make music just for myself

I want to make music to change lives and to change the continent

(TINA-NA-NA-NA eh)