Ifemelu (Americanah)

Easy, Easy, Easy, Easy Met you back home in secondary school Wearing Jeans and sneakers thinking I was cool Me and my boys walking looking like some fools Now am in love trying get so close to you But you left me in this country went away Fly on a flight you said bye bye one night Just like that you were gone straight right from my sight You left the country to be Americanah I wanted to join you on a flight they said I could not get a visa I wish I was in paradise with you Ibiza Ifemelu, Ifemelu Ifemelu, Ifemelu Americanah ah ah ahh Americanah Americanah ah ah ahh Americanah Americanh ah ah ahhh Americanah Americanah ah ah ahhh Americanah Living overseas trying to make my way (boys just dey hussle) Life is hard for me every single day (boys just dey bussle) Need to get my papers marriage is the way Or at least they say but I can hardly pay Cleaning toilets I am trying to make it If money is the dough I am trying to bake it Back to focus on, immigration Three months later I was facing deportation Now I am back in Naija with no money Life is a bee stinging with no honey Ifemelu, Ifemelu Ifemelu, Ifemelu Americanah ah ah ahh, Americanah Americanah ah ah ahh, Americanah Americanah ah ah ahh, Americanah Americanah ah ah ahh, Americanah The perils of seperation and immigration Weren't enough to keep me away from you Tracing the crevices of your thighs Our hands become interlocked As we rock to the beautiful music Our tantric motion creates Our hips gyrate and in climatic embrace I look into your eyes And I say to you, "you are the great love of my life" I see the anticipation in your eyes upon my every arrival And I recognize it because truthfully My days are planned with intention On how soon I can see you again These love of ours was forged civilizations ago But now it clashes with my present reality And the guilt slices me open And spills onto a wife whom I've never loved A daughter I love more than life itself And a woman I've loved before I knew what love was You, Ifemelu