| You always run down my things, other people things |
| You should make your own thing, create your own things |
| Need to work for your things, some get hurt for their things |
| See, we live in a world where things running things |
| And those that seem to run things get run by their things |
| So you nyam down my things till you’ve done everything |
| And you return not a thing so you don’t earn not a thing |
| You wanna kill all these birds with one stone and one sling |
| Don’t wanna see no screwface, no screwface |
| Wanna see my people dance, my people dance |
| I wanna see them smile and join their hands |
| We’re africans and we don’t do those things |
| Again, again |
| No, this is not our way, it’s not the way |
| Badness is not our way, it’s not the way |
| Slackness is not the way, it’s not the way |
| We’re africans and we don’t do those things |
| Everybody owe you things but nobody know nothing |
| Since you know it all, no one can show you things |
| You hate the birds for their wings |
| For the melodies they sing |
| You want the thoughts that I think |
| You claim the words from this ink |
| So you milk and you rinse |
| Down to the bones and the skin |
| And then I’m supposed to get fling |
| To the rest of the have been’s |
| Don’t get caught, don’t get jinxed |
| It may not be what one thinks |
| Not everything is gold 'cause it glitters and blings, so |
| Don’t wanna see no screwface, no screwface |
| Wanna see my people dance, my people dance |
| I wanna see them smile and join their hands |
| We’re africans and we don’t do those things |
| Again, again |
| No, this is not our way, it’s not the way |
| Badness is not our way, it’s not the way |
| Slackness is not the way, it’s not the way |
| We’re africans and we don’t do those things |
| Situation is a hell of a thing |
| In this condition that we are living in |
| It’s not the way, it’s not the way |
| We’re human beings, we don’t do these things |
| Don’t wanna see no screwface, no screwface |
| Wanna see my people dance, my people dance |
| I wanna see them smile and join their hands |
| We’re africans and we don’t do those things |
| Again, again |
| Don’t wanna see no screwface, no screwface |
| Wanna see my people dance, my people dance |
| I wanna see them smile and join their hands |
| We’re africans and we don’t do those things |