More songs by Gunna
More songs by Asake
Description
The road here is not about kilometres - it is about the eternal ‘searching and not finding’. It seems like there is money, cities, even a chance to change the climate, but the heart still holds a negative temperature.
Plans are crushed by fatigue, hopes hit the ceiling, and dreams look like a quiet place without noise and debts. Pictures flash by to the beat of the music: a childhood filled with dark thoughts, friends who are far away or behind bars, the pressure of the world from which there is no escape.
And amid all this, one simple mantra resounds: high hopes, because without them, the road loses its meaning.
Vocals: Asake
Producer: Aviator Keyz
Additional arranger: Florian Flo Ongonga
Sound engineer: Florian Flo Ongonga
Vocals: Gunna
A&R: James Flynn
Mastering engineer: Joe Laporta
Assistant Sound Engineer: Ryan Ray Lauer
Marketing: Shay Ferguson
Producer: TURBO
Producer: Yung Talent
Writer: Sergio Kitchens
Writer: Chandler Great
Writer: Kenneth Keason Gilmore
Writer: Kamen Martin
Lyrics and translation
Original
I'm out here on this road
I'm searching for my own satisfaction
I'm selling 'cross the globe (I'm selling 'cross the globe)
Trying to protect my soul, keep me happy
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Trapped before I lived, life's a game, I play my card, this ain't the one I dealt
Get rich and beat all the odds, is that really ideal?
Knew we would get out of poverty, I said, "I will"
Bang my shit until they tired of me, and that's for real
I searched the globe 'cause I ain't whole
I can change the climate, but my heart cold
I grew up 'round nigga dark as charcoal
Play with me one time, you don't know how far I go
How far I go, how hard I go
Seeking for some peace, I'm searching high and low
Shit ain't been easy, but I got high hopes
High hopes, I got high hopes
I'm out here on this road
I'm searching for my own satisfaction
I'm selling 'cross the globe (I'm selling 'cross the globe)
Trying to protect my soul, keep me happy
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
I'm in my zone, and I'm far gone (far gone)
For my self-satisfaction
When I wan reason, I go light one (light one)
For my self-satisfaction
Mo dẹ gbọmọ meji ki n fi gazọ (gazọ)
Oun ti o ye eyan, ṣebi o ye Ọlọhun (ye Ọlọhun)
Al'jaanah o ('jaanah o), o n gbona o (gbona o)
O ye Ọlọhun
Melo, melo ṣa ni mo fẹ sọ, but no pressure
Ọrọ bi mọtor ti o ni sensor
Ọmọluabi, ọmọ t'ọn sọ
Bẹbẹ n lọ
I'm out here on this road
I'm searching for my own satisfaction
I'm selling 'cross the globe (I'm selling 'cross the globe)
Trying to protect my soul, keep me happy
Ah, ah, ah-ah
(Oun ti o ye eyan, ṣebi o ye Ọlọhun)
Hm, ah, ah, ah-ah (o ye Ọlọhun)
Guess that life a sin
Born to lose and built to win, and I just wanna win
Dot my I's and cross my T's, and I stood on my ten (uh)
Shop my dogs across the city, shit thicker than thin
So much time I can't believe, my cuz still in the pen
Got a life sentence, I'm still waiting out
Know this shit go way back, back to tater tots
Handling my business, I be at the top
That's lonely at the top, top
I'm out here on this road
I'm searching for my own satisfaction
I'm selling 'cross the globe (I'm selling 'cross the globe)
Trying to protect my soul, keep me happy
Ah, ah, ah-ah
(Oun ti o ye eyan, ṣebi o ye Ọlọhun)
Hm, ah, ah, ah-ah (o ye Ọlọhun)
Ọmọ, no pressure
Ti o ni sensor
Ọmọluabi, ọmọ t'ọn sọ
Bẹbẹ n lọ ọ-ọ-ọ
English translation
I'm out here on this road
I'm searching for my own satisfaction
I'm selling 'cross the globe (I'm selling 'cross the globe)
Trying to protect my soul, keep me happy
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Trapped before I lived, life's a game, I play my card, this ain't the one I dealt
Get rich and beat all the odds, is that really ideal?
Knew we would get out of poverty, I said, "I will"
Bang my shit until they tired of me, and that's for real
I searched the globe 'cause I ain't whole
I can change the climate, but my heart cold
I grew up 'round nigga dark as charcoal
Play with me one time, you don't know how far I go
How far I go, how hard I go
Seeking for some peace, I'm searching high and low
Shit ain't been easy, but I got high hopes
High hopes, I got high hopes
I'm out here on this road
I'm searching for my own satisfaction
I'm selling 'cross the globe (I'm selling 'cross the globe)
Trying to protect my soul, keep me happy
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
I'm in my zone, and I'm far gone (far gone)
For my self-satisfaction
When I wan reason, I go light one (light one)
For my self-satisfaction
Mo dẹ gbọmọ meji ki n fi gazọ (gazọ)
Oun ti o ye eyan, ṣebi o ye Ọlọhun (ye Ọlọhun)
Al'jaanah o ('jaanah o), o n gbona o (gbona o)
O ye Ọlọhun
Melo, melo ṣa ni mo fẹ sọ, but no pressure
Ọrọ bi mọtor ti o ni sensor
Ọmọluabi, ọmọ t'ọn sọ
Bẹbẹ n lọ
I'm out here on this road
I'm searching for my own satisfaction
I'm selling 'cross the globe (I'm selling 'cross the globe)
Trying to protect my soul, keep me happy
Ah, ah, ah-ah
(Oun ti o ye eyan, ṣebi o ye Ọlọhun)
Hm, ah, ah, ah-ah (o ye Ọlọhun)
Guess that life a sin
Born to lose and built to win, and I just wanna win
Dot my I's and cross my T's, and I stood on my ten (uh)
Shop my dogs across the city, shit thicker than thin
So much time I can't believe, my cuz still in the pen
Got a life sentence, I'm still waiting out
Know this shit go way back, back to tater tots
Handling my business, I be at the top
That's lonely at the top, top
I'm out here on this road
I'm searching for my own satisfaction
I'm selling 'cross the globe (I'm selling 'cross the globe)
Trying to protect my soul, keep me happy
Ah, ah, ah-ah
(Oun ti o ye eyan, ṣebi o ye Ọlọhun)
Hm, ah, ah, ah-ah (o ye Ọlọhun)
Ọmọ, no pressure
Ti o ni sensor
Ọmọluabi, ọmọ t'ọn sọ
Bẹbẹ n lọ ọ-ọ-ọ