Your Request - Nneka

I had a conversation yesterday

About the reason for our existence

So many comfort themselves and say

Our fate is just coincidence

I switch on the TV, see the breaking news

So many souls they die swiftly

Even loved ones could be taken away so mysteriously

If I didn’t ask, would you give me what I gave to you

If I didn’t bleed, could you show me love like the way

I show my love to you

If I did not beg, could you do it by yourself

Oh don’t you know that the world needs you

If I didn’t ask, could you give what I gave to you

Still occupied with a shadow

We live without sympathy

There is a sacred place in all of us

So we are in reality guilty

Some people take the word love

And use it to persuade

Yes, they have betrayed

Cos' their truth of love has turned to hate

We need each other to grow

Like different rivers into one ocean flow

When she aches, take her hands

Hold her up, show her beauty

In his heart, he feels pain

Show him love, so he find safety

If I didn’t ask, would you show me love

And if I didn’t bleed

Oh would you give it to me

If I didn’t beg

I beg you please show me love…