Ceiling Games - Kele

We wait a while as sunlight leaves the day

The coast is clear, your mother’s out again

Teachers on strike, CNN on loop downstairs

So, shall we play a game?

On your notebook I write your new name

I feed them a lie that you’re in on it

They say it’s love but I think you’re afraid

Obinze, I have not changed

Do you see ceilings when she’s with you?

Do you see ceilings the way we used to?

My eyes are closed but all that I can see

Is you there in your underwear

She does not ask for she does not care to know

All she wants is for things to stay the same

But you’re too weighed down by the pointless things you own

Do you long for simpler days?

We set the controls for Nollywood

So no one will hear what we will do

You must know that they’re afraid of you

Obinze, I am the same

Do you see ceilings when she’s with you?

Do you see ceilings the way we used to?

If Harmattan winds could bring you back to me

Standing there in your underwear

I just can’t stand it

I just can’t stand the wait

I just can’t stand it, no

I just can’t stand the wait

I just can’t stand it

I just can’t stand the wait, no

I just can’t stand it

I just can’t stand the wait, no