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The NEST Presents: Legacy

by The Nest Collective

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LYRICS Bado sijapata ndai, lakini nitawai wai (repeat)
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VERSE ONE I've been spending all of my days I love you in a way I've been spending all of my nights Trying to realize Your beautiful eyes My sweet love My sweet love CHORUS And it's a feeling in my heart A feeling in my soul Filling me up from my head to my toe Sio kama mapenzi ya kawaida Ni penzi siwezi kuelewa kabisa Kabisa... VERSE TWO Sijui nisemeje I know, I know I sound a little crazy Ever since you came my way My whole life has changed And I do not regret This beautiful feeling of sweet love My sweet love My sweet love REPEAT CHORUS VERSE THREE Mara kwa mara najipata Kwenye ziwa lisilo na mipaka I drift away in this sweet sweet place As I think of the ways I'll share with you My sweet love My sweet love REPEAT CHORUS Yeah, yeah...
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VERSE ONE There are times when it feels, niko chini ya bahari ninazama, ninanyongwa sipumui, sina air. There are times when I feel, nimefungwa na kamba I am struggling, I am fighting niwe huru. Moyo wangu wanidunga, sina mbele wala nyuma, macho yangu, tiririka, wasi wasi. Sononeka, jibu sina (nim)mepotea, sioni njia umia, naumia I'm on the edge, on the edge, oh! CHORUS Wachilia dada Wachilia ndugu Wachilia... Just let it go, it eats you up. Just let it go, ooh. VERSE TWO When it feels, had enough na maisha ni magumu matatizo mekubamba dunia kesha kwangukia When it feels, strength is gone on the verge of giving up your body's frail, your muscles weak and you can't seem to find a way. Natishika makotini, unaomba kwa sauti Mungu Baba nisaidie, nishike mkono siniache Hujijui, unahisia kulialia kwa uchunga umia, naumia you're on the edge, on the edge, oh! REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE (Kikuyu) Guku ni gwa cucu (heiyo), guku ni gwa cucu gukama na ndume iria ria Mama. REPEAT CHORUS TO END
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INTRO Hey mpenzi, nakupenda sana. Chorus Mpenzi, hakuna matata. Kila kitu kitawa sawa, sawa. My lover, you don't have to worry, everything will be alright. VERSE ONE Mpenzi wangu Niko hapa kama unataka msichana, sana Tulikosana, lakini hizo ni mambo za jana Leo siku mpya, tuendelee, tusahau zile makosa, then we can live and learn. All the precious things then we can earn forever, oh my baby I chose ya, to be my number moja Through sickness and health, poverty and wealth Living each and every day, baby as it comes I got a love call, to set your ball rolling I made the plans in my mind how to make you mine. REPEAT CHORUS VERSE TWO Nataka tuelewane, tuache kugombana Tabia yangu na yako, yasikilizana Kwa hivyo wacha tuwe, bibi na bwana Tuendelee na mbele, tuwache makelele Mapenzi yawe tele, milele na milele Cuz things ain't right between you and me Nothing is the way that it is supposed to be Something needs to be D-O-N-E Cuz I wanna get it on and kick it right with you Prove that I'm a girl who knows what to do I don't really wanna wait, tt might get too late. REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE Hey mpenzi, nakupenda sana. (Here's my love, baby come and take it) VERSE THREE I need your loving baby, can I get it right away? I'd rather not wait, it's been long since you been gone I've got quality time baby, all reserved just to be with you Ain't no worries at all, boy I know just what I got. My lover is you, I wanna be with you No worries at all, I wanna rock your world My mpenzi. REPEAT CHORUS TO END Hey mpenzi, nakupenda sana. Here's my love, baby come and take it. Mpenzi we, mpenzi. Eeh mpenzi, ewe mpenzi.
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Mimi na wewe x3 Aiya, ooh x 5 VERSE ONE It's a Friday night, everything's alright Eh nyinyi mabeste twende tukatike If you like to dance, well then here's your chance Sisi wa Nairobi tunapenda heppy It is in your eyes, ooh you can't deny! Mmefurahi wacha kujidai. Hey, you over there, Hey you look familiar Si tukatike, mimi na wewe CHORUS Aiya-iya-iyai x 2 Aiya, ooh X 2 VERSE TWO Huyu chikidee, ako na bidii Anadance kuku, huku na huku Na huyu jamaa, yeye yu shujaa Anajua kukata bila kuhata It is in the air, it lives everywhere! Make you feel like removing your underwear Ogopa DJs, wacha ku-delay Sisi tumefika sasa tutawika REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE Ooh ameniokoa, ameniokoa Oh ameniokoa, can we dance together? Manze tumebeba, maze tunaroga Tumefanikiwa, can we dance together? (Kikuyu) Kai mutaraigwa wega, mokiina, mokiina? Mokiina, kai mutaraigwa wega? Ah-ah! Ooh x 2 I'm losing control I'm losing control Ah-ah! Ooh x 2 Wacha kujifanya una hanyahanya! REPEAT CHORUS TO END Kai mutaraigwa wega, mokiina, mokiina? I'm losing control, I'm losing control. Ninanoki, ninanoki nikiskia hii mziki.
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CHORUS Niwe wako milele (ai yai yai) Nikupe mapenzi tele (ai yai yai) Siwe na shaka, siwe na hofu we Kwangu we karibia. VERSE ONE I loved you since I first saw you Wanted to build my world with you But you belonged to someone else I'd die a thousand deaths for you Bring you the earth, the sun and the moon What can I do with these feelings I have for you? Hey, hey It's unusual for a girl to say. Hey, hey (wako milele, penzi tele) Give me a moment, I just want a day REPEAT CHORUS VERSE TWO I see the sadness in your eyes I hear you cannot sleep at night She took your heart and run away. Learn to trust, let go of pain With me my love, fall again. Hey, hey It's unusual for a girl to say. Hey, hey Give me a moment, I just want a day REPEAT CHORUS TO END Niwe wako milele (ai yai yai) (wako milele) Nikupe mapenzi tele (ai yai yai) (penzi tele) Siwe na shaka, siwe na hofu we Kwangu we karibia.
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VERSE ONE Jua yaangaa, jua yaangaa kwangu Kivuli chafunika, kivuli chanipita tena Nimewafunika vifaranga, kinga vifaranga wangu Adui namuona, adui namuona adui namuona, hajui kuwa CHORUS Namuona mwewe x 4 VERSE TWO Machozi yanitoka, machozi yanitoka kwani Uvivu utamuua, uvivu utaniua Rafiki yangu kageuka adui Ewe Mola muokoe Toa chuki moyoni mwake REPEAT CHORUS VERSE THREE Sisi marafiki tangu siku za utoto Wewe wanijua kushinda watu wote Ulinielewa nami nilikuamini Nimeshindwa kutatua tatizo liko wapi REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE Look into my eyes, Tell me all you see Love thy enemy friendly I can be REPEAT CHORUS TO END
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VERSE ONE Every other morning I wake, not because I'm deserving it's 'cause you won't forsake me. Every other day ain't the same yet your love for me never changed although I did and... Thank you for all your love in me. Without you I couldn't be (be). Father I owe to you all I am not as a man, but as part of your plan. VERSE TWO I believe that we all make mistakes. It's beyond our power to change, what it takes is you. I'm looking at my life and I see. I'm looking at my life and I see. There isn't any sin or anything you can't forgive and though the Devil will try to lie, so sly You never made me cry Now that I love thee I know you won't let me compromise since you opened up my eyes. My eyes, since you opened up my eyes..

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Legacy is the culmination of a challenge we gave to young Kenyan singers to cover eight Kenyan pop songs released before the year 2010. From classics like Nameless and Amani’s “Ninanoki” which ushered in a new wave of Kenyan contemporary pop music, to the tongue-in-cheek hip-hop commentary of K-South and Fundi Frank’s “Ndai", the seven participating singers have recreated and re-imagined these eight songs to discover how our musical past is influencing the future.

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released September 18, 2013

Recorded at the NEST, Nairobi. Produced and engineered by Jim Chuchu. Production Assistants - Sunny Dolat and Njoki Ngumi.

Many thanks go to the kind creators of these songs for allowing their younger contemporaries and fans to cover their songs for this project. Many thanks also go to our seven participating singers for their infectious enthusiasm.

Legacy is a project of the NEST. Visit www.thisisthenest.com/music for more information.

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