Hard Earned Nothing

Intro

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

It is Elvis Striker once again

Mambo Striker

Ndini

Chorus

Tlokweng nights were cold

My sweat turned to stone

A month of work for a ghost

Working for a ghost

Working for a ghost

Gaborone felt like a trap

Waiting for a check that never came back

Verse 1

Styling with my uncle

Life seemed alright

Everything was good then

Everything was bright

Then the graft began

Baba talked to friends for me

Sent me to the site

Labor for the eyes to see

Pre-Chorus

Mixing the mortar

Hands started breaking

Body was aching

Muscles were shaking

Chorus

Tlokweng nights were cold

My sweat turned to stone

A month of work for a ghost

Working for a ghost

Working for a ghost

Gaborone felt like a trap

Waiting for a check that never came back

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

Money gone

Oh oh

The boss is gone

Verse 2

Favorite clothes shredded

Mortar ate the seams

Ruined all my threads

And ruined all my dreams

Thirty days of hauling

Mud inside my shoes

Woke up to the news

The boss had paid his dues

By running with the cash

Leaving us with ash

Ten men in a truck

Ten men out of luck

Pre-Chorus

Sleeping in the metal

Cramped and cold

Body feeling old

Truth finally told

Chorus

Tlokweng nights were cold

My sweat turned to stone

A month of work for a ghost

Working for a ghost

Working for a ghost

Gaborone felt like a trap

Waiting for a check that never came back

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

Never forget

Oh oh

That heavy debt

Bridge

Underneath the open sky

Sleeping in a broken car

Asking why

Wondering why

Waiting why

Under the Botswana stars

Twenty-eleven was a scar

Deep inside it stays

Hard and bitter days

Chorus

Tlokweng nights were cold

My sweat turned to stone

A month of work for a ghost

Working for a ghost

Working for a ghost

Gaborone felt like a trap

Waiting for a check that never came back