Nneka - Streets Lack Love lyrics

This goes out to you people in the streets Know it is not easy to survive in this world Where there is no love, where there is no heart The things we say, we are, we can never be You find yourself wandering why You're sitting in the darkness Can't find the light in this world And as we grow old we might understand the truth The fear of knowing it all See places where we'll be We never thought we would see This goes out to you people in the streets Know it is not easy to survive in this world Where there is no love, where there is no heart The things we say, we are, we can never be You will see we want the things we never have Continuously dreaming, yeah I know as long as we believe, we can get outta this Together we'll achieve And sometimes they wanna see your down fall Think of their own profits and make you misuse Your fellow brothers and sisters, your family, your friends We just don't know what to do This goes out to you people in the streets Know it is not easy to survive in this world Where there is no love, where there is no heart The things we say, we are, we can never be For nearly 60 years in Nigeria People have been suffering from gas flaring, and pollution Because of big oil extraction companies such as Shell, Chevron, NNPC The Niger Delta, the Warri and the Ogoni people have pleading for a change They have been fighting fot justice But the companies, Europe and Nigerian government do not seem to care Do not seem to be bothered, they can't be bothered