”Shay E is a rapper/ songwriter from Lagos Nigeria. This year the young artist decided to celebrate his birthday with everyone supporting his music by putting out two new tracks titled: “Broken Dreams” and the “The Battle”
‘Broken Dreams’ was recorded to Alex Faith’s Have It All instrumental and is the story of kid who comes to know God.
‘The Battle’ was recorded to Christon Gray’s EWEWU instrumental and depicts the life of struggling Christian.
These are definitely a couple of inspirational songs you would enjoy listening to”.
‘Broken Dreams’
‘The Battle’
Broken Dreams Lyrics
Verse 1
Carry with me, the broken dreams of a kid
Who had a mom and dad who never knew what he needed
He went to church but still felt like a heathen
He knew the facts but had trouble believing
Screaming inside so nobody can hear him
Disappointments are all that he’s expecting
Allergic to the truth cos lies are all they tell him
Growing up quick to become another felon
The world steady tryna shove him to the wrong path
Influenced by tv shows to become a psychopath
If life is a movie his is filled with wrong acts
Got anger issues escalating into pure wrath
Dealing with peer pressure, severe depression
Tryna find a way out so he picks up an addiction
But these blunts really can’t save a man’s soul
They only take his mind off his problems for a while or so
Hook
Broken Dreams of a kid in a black world
Blab bla bla bla bla black world
Listen up it’s time that all the facts heard
Before we take it back to that really black world
Verse 2
Doing the wrong things start to make him feel grown
Seems to be struggling with reality alone
He’s not a kid no more it’s time to be responsible
But he’d rather act tough like all his role models
Wannabe gangsters that dropped a few albums
Tryna sell records claim the streets are where they from
Making use of profanity on every single song
Explicit contents but still he sings along
Well actually this story’s got a bright side
Cos eventually this dude comes across Christ
An experience that he couldn’t even fight
Lived all this while in the dark but now he sees the light
A brand new chapter opened in his life
Cos he used to be dead but now he realised
This is not an epiphany, it’s an intervention
God gave him grace to chase the dreams that I mentioned
Hook (x2)
The Battle Lyrics
Chorus
Now i’m tryna be the hero, find that i’m the criminal
and discovered through the course of sin
that i’m no good, oh oh oh
Jesus, oh Jesus
my Jesus thats why I love you so, so
Verse1
(Yeah yeah)
I’m still rapping to beats you never heard
Running tracks what’s I’ll do till they put me in a hearse
And when I’m 6 feet under you can still listen to a verse
With your ears then your heart, now do it in reverse
Not rapping cos I’m tryna be the best one
CHH been here music you can learn from
Whether we rapping or we writing find a way just to tell ’em
Bout the love that HE had even for a felon
That was on HIS right hand side straight until the end
Everyday I crucify HIM, still HE is friend
And all he really wants is for me to amend
Alll these crooked ways and stop living in sin
Battle for my soul feel like I’m letting the Devil win
I just got to accept that I’m saved from within
Even when I fall he pulls me back up straight to HIM
Said I’ve got to accept that I’m saved from sin
Chorus
Verse 2
If its a battle feel like I’m behind the enemy lines
I probably made it back to camp over 70 times
Its 7 billion souls, each and every one of a kind
They calling it a rat race, we running out of the time
That he gave us, spend it all trying to save up
(Kan)Ye said it all, said only Jesus can save us
From ourselves, conscience left on the shelf
Doing the wrong things, say that I’m just being myself
And its amazing I write rhmes trying to praise HIM
I’ve never been alone through the battles I’m facing
HIS word left a trail in my heart and its blazing
Now I just gotta show you through this dream that I’m chasing
But right now feel like I’m acting like Jason
It’s a metaphorical mask I’m hiding my face in
When I look into the mirror I don’t like what I see
Why is it so hard to change if I truly believe?
Chorus
