Ɛbɛyɛ Yie (Start Again)

Verse 1

I packed my whole life in a black nylon bag

Left Kaneshie market before the sun came up

Sold what I could, kept the rest in my chest

Some say I lost it, I say I just got free

Red clay road stretching past Kokomlemle

No shortcut here, but my feet know the way

Every scar on my palm is a lesson I bought

I'm not going back, I'm just starting over

Chorus

Ɛbɛyɛ yie, ɛbɛyɛ yie

It will be well, it will be well

Yɛn kɔ so, yɛn nkɔ so bio

We keep going, we don't stop again

The road is long but the road is honest

Ɛbɛyɛ yie, hold my hand, walk with me

Verse 2

Mama said the palm tree bends but never breaks

In the storm off the lagoon it learns to sway

I lost the job, I lost the roof for a season

But I found my voice singing under the mango tree

Now I'm building slow, one block, one Sunday

Selling kelewele by the junction at night

Every cedi saved is a brick in the morning

Nothing wasted, everything is teaching me

Chorus

Ɛbɛyɛ yie, ɛbɛyɛ yie

It will be well, it will be well

Yɛn kɔ so, yɛn nkɔ so bio

We keep going, we don't stop again

The road is long but the road is honest

Ɛbɛyɛ yie, hold my hand, walk with me

Bridge

Tell the one who's crying by the window tonight

The end of one road is the start of a light

Tell the one whose hands are shaking, still holding on

The path was never broken, you just moved on

Outro

Ɛbɛyɛ yie... ɛbɛyɛ yie

Walk slow, walk sure, the harvest is coming

Ɛbɛyɛ yie... we go on, we go on