Millet and Metal

Intro

Uh

Yeah

Straight out the dirt

Verse 1

Millet stalks bending low

Rusted rims spin slow through the heat

Metal on my waistline

Used to be a boy but the sun made me bitter

Steel in my grip

Cold as a lizard skin

Trade my heart for a handful of naira

Trade my soul for the gravel

Pre-Chorus

Mama begged for me

Mama wept for me

Now the sky stays red

Now the birds fall dead

Chorus

No glory just the graves

Torouf digging deep today

No glory just the graves

Torouf digging deep today

Hard life scarred life

Blood in the Niger night

Hard life scarred life

Verse 2

Smuggling fuel past the checkpoint

Smoke rising thick over the dry valley

Screaming for a ghost

Searching for a brother lost in the Ramadan shade

Uniforms take their cut

Leaving us the ash and the hunger

Counting every empty clip

I watch my shadow fold like a paper bird

Pre-Chorus

Sister sells the water

Sister hates the slaughter

She sees my heavy coat

She hears my rattling throat

Chorus

No glory just the graves

Torouf digging deep today

No glory just the graves

Torouf digging deep today

Hard life scarred life

Blood in the Niger night

Hard life scarred life

Bridge

Sand in my teeth

Iron in my palm

I came I saw I stayed

Dreams dying in the wind

Every man we bled

Left for the sand

Left for the drought

Left for the dark

Chorus

No glory just the graves

Torouf digging deep today

No glory just the graves

Torouf digging deep today

Hard life scarred life

Blood in the Niger night

Hard life scarred life