Bittersweet bittersweet
Pops gotta leave so the fam can eat
Said he has to work overseas
Said he'll be back made promises
Uncle doing hard shifts
He building a house in Kumasi hmm
But he stuck in Peckham
Attending the funeral of his bredrin
What's the lesson? Huh?
What's the lesson?
When you can't enjoy the fruits from investments
Never made it back to the motherland
How you getting buried in another land?
Don't go astray
Don't go astray my love
When you go away
Don't go astray
Don't go astray my love
When you go away
Hard ship we're sailing on hardships
The tide so high we're failing to last it
Hold on tight we just gotta past this
Praying our elders don't return in a casket
They came with us
Stayed with us
Raising us
Gave us love
And now it seems times is dangerous
The police see us and aim at us
It's strenuous
The blood that we shed will rain on us
Take away the hurt and pain in us hmm
It's time to return these bloodstains enough
Don't go astray
Don't go astray my love
When you go away
Don't go astray
Don't go astray my love
When you go away
It's been so long
Can't remember my way back home
I feel so alone
I say that I'm fine when I pick up the phone
See family back home don't know that I'm suffering
They just be expecting me to bring the money in
They will never understand that I'm struggling
Bills upon bills every year left with nothing
And I can't go back empty-handed
Feels so stranded
Thought things would change when I landed
6000 miles from my mother's land
Now I'm getting buried in another land
Don't go astray
Don't go astray my love
When you go away
Don't go astray
Don't go astray my love
When you go away
