LONELY 
Ola Onabule & Karlos Edwards(c) 1994

Caught in possession of a black face
Sentence the loser in a rat race1
What can i do

Guilty!
Looking for heaven in the wrong zone
All of those people saying hell no
What Could i do

For a while I used to think of what to do to you
But it really ain’t my style
in a moment you’ll be back to do the things you do
breaking the stone, crushing the stone, grinding the stone against the bone

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YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE
Ola Onabule © 1994

Strong black brother, guiding my hand
To discover, my foreign land
I remember how he would say!
They ain’t better, making the pain!

And I say it couldn’t really happen in our time
But it happens every day
All those souls just losing hope and giving up the fight
Don’t they hear their brothers say

You’d Better Believe
There ain’t nothing in this world we cannot do
Ooooh believe
There ain’t nothing in this world we cannot be

Strong black brother, guiding my ears
To the future, I realise!
There’s the answer, how we survive!
Give the children, hope for our lives!

And I say so many kids seem to have lost the way 
You can see it all around 
Don’t they know that history made the rules that keep us bound
Don’t they hear the brother say

Everyone can be the power 
Sow the pride and love will flower
Find the heart to build the future
World of hope for man and creature
Never make it right with anger
Peace is love and peace is stron
I feel at one with earth the mother 
Talking to my strong black brother
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FUNKBERRY JAM
Ola Onabule©1994

Well I know you
I really Feel I know you 
I've seen what you been doing
All that  killing, fussing and a-fighting
and it makes me wanna say

Let  me go, let me go, let me let me get funky
Where the funk is at is where I am and where I really got to be
Let  me go, let me go, let me let me get groovy
I've had enuff of that lazy stuff to make the soul inside me scream

Well I saw you 
You didn't know that I saw you
You were being so naughty
Taking hope from the needy 
And they were saying

Chorus, 
Solo and Choruses out
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FOREVER GIRL
Ola Onabule © 1994

Look into my eyes
Tell me what you find my dear
There’s no other world for me but this
This world we share

I’m not the perfect guy 
Unquestionnably so my dear
But you may never feel a love like ours 
So pure and rare

And you’ll come across a million stars 
A million times
But none that shine as bright as I will shine for you
Within your gaze within your touch
My forever girl

Life is never fair 
But I am always near my love 
Stay within the warmth of my embrace
You’ll never fall

CHORUSES OUT...
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REDEFINE ME 
Ola Onabule ©1996

The beginning was special and pure
When love entered our world
Days were ending where dreams feel secure 
To reveal their magical all

Its a lovely place, but we’ve never been there together
An inspiring place that we need to find
And we gotta make haste or we’ll lose forever forever
There’s not a moment to waste and we can’t run no more

Love me as you find me
Don’t refine me, redefine me 
Let me know you as feel you 
And the memories of the pain just fade away

In the meaning of love we have found something new
Enchanting and true
In the giving the gift is reborn and returns 
To bless you anew

And you’ll never look back or away from this silent miracle
And you’ll never go back to hiding from love
As a matter of fact when its real you can’t keep it invisible
As a matter of fact we can’t run no more

Away to another time and place
We ain’t got no choice we got to learn to share this space 
Undersatnd the feelings on another human fa
Like when we laugh, or when we cry
or long to be free

CHORUSES OUT
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BEFORE YOUR LOVE
Ola Onabule ©1995

She tied my wings, To stop me flying closer to the sun
To save me from myself, Failing love and loving how I fail
Oh but now I’m saved

However did I live before your love 
With no song to sing
Whatever did I do before your love 
When loneliness was king
Wherever did I go before your love
Scared of everything
Don’t wanna go back to before your love
Skies were filled with grey
Before your love

We spoke few words, of rainbow clouds or dewy daffodils
One day I walked away, leaving all that crazy jazz behind
For peace of mind

Love was all that was required of me 
And all that I required of myself
I was naive young and free
But I lost it all before your love 
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TRUST IS ALL
Ola Onabule ©1995

For my world I pray peace
For my life I need time
In my dreams I see hope
In my love trust is all

When I found you, where I found you
Living a life with pain and misery each day
And I came thru’, cos’ I stayed true 
Knowing that life had left your heart an empty shell

I brought the sun to dry up your tears
I brought the rain to clear up your fears
You brought the dark to make me blind
You brought the clouds in to hide your lies

Oh when you hurt me you really hurt me baby
Mercy was like a star a million miles away
And you burned me, then you spurned me
Left me in pieces, and swore you were gonna make me pay

I believed, like a child, I believed
As I recall, the same way you believed in me
You deceived, with your words you deceived
How can I go on living for you when...

Instrumental solo, choruses out...
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QUESTIONS
Ola Onabule & Robert Greenfield ©

I know tonight is gonna be the worst
Next to pride there is so much to be lost
Well I blame it on society, that’s the usual thing
I’m so filled with my piety but in my head the truth starts to ring

Now I know I’m left with a meagre quotient 
Of reasons why she left me with questions on my mind
I admit she gave me sufficient suggestion
Of how to keep her happy, no questions on her mind

When I was king my sins were piling high
I took for granted things so hard to come by
Well it’s my fate to be a man to misunderstand
My mistake was that I had no plan
And now I’m left in lonely land

No other light may shine 
While she’s away you’ll never see my smile
No other dream may grow
While she’s away my heart will never know 
The joy of having of her close

Oh darling I love you 
Come back into these arms of mine and stay
Don’t ever walk away from me again.
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LIE
Ola Onabule & Robert Greenfield (c) 1994

Why do I love you Why do I still wonder why
Why am I still so uncertain and sure at the very same time
Let it go let it go calls the voice of my reason
And it’s tiring me each day
And keeping me away every night

i want to love you
Even when my senses deny
the feel of you, the touch of you because you hurt me some of the time
And I know and i know and i know that I’m making it hard
By holding onto my defenses 
When I know with you is where my life is

If it ain’t one thing it’s another on my mind
It’s still a hard life baby even though you’re mine
Just about the one thing that is clear on my mind
Is heaven has a brand of magic 
And most of it is here when you’re here with me

And you lie in my shadow
Make me feel your thunder make me feel your rain
When you lie in my shadow
Make me feel your magic
Pleasure mixed with pain, Baby when you lie 

How can I grow and let you grow at the very same time.
Nice and slow, nice and slow, nice and slow
Nice and easy is the way to the other side
Where love can never run dry
Bridge
Choruses. out
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CARRY ON
Ola Onabule & Robert Greenfield (c) 1994

Oh! if loving you is wrong
And hating you is strong
How can we carry on, thinking we’re number one
My one bone of contention is you never had a song
if you think you can’t be wrong...
Carry on, carry on, carry on..
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SHOW ME LOVE 
Ola Onabule© 1993

VERSE
I  believed in you
how could I ever not believe you
When you were all my eyes could see
And I dream of you
and in my dreams you run right to me
Oh what a foolish fantasy.

I just wanna be near, to share, the care
And company of you. 
Please don’t leave me alone.

I don’t want the hurtin’ pain
Show me love
Saying that you’re gonna change
Is not enough
Put away your silly games
Show me love 
Show me that I am all you want

There’s nothing left to say 
I have decided to release me
And in a moment  I’ll be gone.
Unless you find a way 
Back to those days so filled with passion
I can’t forgive the wrong

I just wanna be near, to share, the care
And company of you. 
Please don’t leave me alone.

You don’t hear, you aint been listening 
all my words have lost their meaning 
You best find  time to do some thinking
Because we’re thru until you show me just a little love...

Words and Music by Steve Price & Ola Onabule  ©1994
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YOU
Ola Onabule & Roberto Bugiolacchi ©

We had all the time for living 
All that’s left are shadows on my mind 
All that taking and no giving
I it seems was just the foolish kind

You, took what you could take
Thinking my heart would break, without you
And you, filing me full of lies
Making up alibies how you lied

Fame and fortune took you far away
I at home forgotten and alone
All that’s left is just a photograph
Faded memories of the love we’ve known

This ain’t a life.  I’m just-a-passing time
Till your home again with your bitter sweet pill
The pain is a knife taking hold of my mind
I can’t see my wounds I’m part of your heaven and hell

Now your gone my life is over
Friends say I am such a hopeless case
But until you say you’ll come back to me my baby
I, for you will always have to wait

CHORUSES OUT
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UNCHAIN
Ola Onabule ©1990

I was once in that sky,
Flying free, soaring high
And below, all was mine
I had hope, I had time
Oh I had to fall coz of my pride
It was lifting me and filling me inside
Now no more joy becoz you declared
We're all your toys, dressed up in fear

unchain my weary heart
Release my restless soul
Untie my tethered dreams
unleash my angry soul

I have learnt to believe, 
to survive all my pain and grief
I have sang the angels song 
though the flesh is weak
oh how the spirit is strong
sometimes I scream towards the moon
I'm just a-hoping and a-praying that my Peace will come to me soon
But now I know what ever you do 
Where ever you go 
You're gonna be alone until you...
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