Now face north Think about direction, wonder why you haven't before Now stand in the place where you work Now face west, think about the place where you live Wonder why you haven't before Stand in the place where you live Your feet are going to be on the

(Africa, Africa) So what you know about Yo, in case you ain't know I go by the name of Akon and I'm from Home of the Goree Islands I'm from Senegal, West-side So I'ma share with you where I'm from And how I was comin' up So what you know about the

What have we become? A farewell to arms I'll wave this flag of white So the avenged see the light We'll pay for closed eyes Before genocide Can you hear the cries? Nowhere the children run to hide Crimson rivers flow down hills, atone our ills

I wanna know, I wanna know Hey-ey-ey, hey-ey-ey Where do we go, where do we go From hey-ey-ey, hey-ey-ey Why are you keeping me on hold Don't wanna leave this place alone Is it a yes or is it no (ahwoo) You're the one that I see waking up next to me And

Some broken bridges in my time Praying for forgiveness Standing on the other side There are bridges on life?s highway But we never see them there Some cross troubled waters And some don't go nowhere Some you wouldn't step on If you're trying to save your

You know that I care What happens to you And I know that you care So I don't feel alone Or the weight of the stone Now that I've found somewhere safe To bury my bone And any fool knows a dog needs a home A shelter from pigs on the wing

Remind me, remind me Yeah you'd wake up in my old t-shirt We didn't care if people stared We'd make out in a crowd somewhere Somebody'd tell us to get a room It's hard to believe that was me and you Now we keep saying that we're OK But I don't want to

To run away, where are we now? So until you feel fade Feeling love this way You really love to play so softly It really hurts to say I crave that I really want you to know I hear you I really want you to come with me, ooh How did we make so softly I knew

Yeah, Amerikaz mothafuckin' Nightmare, bitch They wanna know, where the hood at? Nigga, we right here Live in the flesh with the Tecs, they never scared Them guns we holding, claustrophobic, we'll let 'em air Dump-dump, reloaded the Amerikaz Nightmare

I don't know what came over me I'm too dumb for words Here we are, now where are we? It's like nothing I've ever seen we got hoarse-throated huckster's whispered gimmicks Rubbernecking the curious cynics and headlong-walkers, One born every minute do I