Alim Kamara ft Silvastone & Mallence

Letter To Sierra Leone (English translation) lyrics.

Mallence Bart-Williams - Poem

Royalty, I’m from the richest nation in the world /
Diamond and gold, are my decore, but deeper golden is my soul /

Alim - Verse 1

How can you be surprised / when you raise up leopards /
and they eat your goats / real talk aren't we tired hope /
They even put bio-weapons in Kenema Bo /
Oh we’re suppose to be the poorest nation /
but the asain presence is just growing /
if we don’t start seeing what we have /
and stop selling land to pirañas for half /
They said, Alim why didn’t you make an ebola song /
like it’s suppose to bring back my people who are gone /
I’m really trying now just to inspire the young /
remind them they’re so amazing like Ramrong /
Yeah SL’s original name / When Frobay was Mecca /
and we had that infrastructure / We did / one day believe /
the poor will have nothing to eat, but the rich /

Silvastone - Chorus

If you’re teacher / you should teach well /
and If you’re a leader / I beg you lead well /
Cos the future is in our hands / we are the solution /
one finger can’t pick a stone /

Alim Kamara - Verse 2

If you tie a cow over there / then it only eats over there /
if nothing uplifts you / take stairs / Land that we love / I am right here /
trying to stop the bleed / dammit so much international funding /
still our nurses and doctors are striking / because their minimum
wages keeps disappearing / and now our girls cant study /
because they slipped up and had babies / Isn’t how the captives do /
(Exactly) a nation without educated women really? They say ah this one speaks truth / I just want to know what are you gonna do? / I'm staring in the mirror you should too / you see only we can save now / start teaching our history that's how / tell our story that's how / I keep you in my prayers when I bow / let's make Sierra Leone a Freetown now /

Silvastone - Chorus

If you’re teacher / you should teach well /
and If you’re a leader / I beg you lead well /
Cos the future is in our hands / we are the solution /
one finger can’t pick a stone /