Name: I Knew Your Father
Duration: P00H05M15S
Description: ‘I Knew Your Father’ is a song that describes a foreign, long distance observers’s reaction to the events that ‘Ballad Of The Star-Crossed’ attempts to document as they watch them unfold in the media. The observer tries, unsuccessfully to comprehend and untangle the complex social anomalies that make these shocking harrowing events possible.

I Knew Your Father

from Point Less by Ola Onabulé

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‘I Knew Your Father’ is a song that describes a foreign, long distance observers’s reaction to the events that ‘Ballad Of The Star-Crossed’ attempts to document as they watch them unfold in the media. The observer tries, unsuccessfully to comprehend and untangle the complex social anomalies that make these shocking harrowing events possible.

lyrics

I Knew Your Father
Ola Onabule 2018

I knew your father, well kinda sorta
simply got caught in the fray, stolen away,
Pain must be murder

I hear your mother , Pulled back the cover
Over the secrets of lies, and the truth dies,
Without it’s camera

We watched a world watching on
At bewildered stupor
Nought to do for
Kin clinging on
United in these states of

Cold fear, burn of the brand, severed hand dealer
Old fear, cull of the clan, studded man killer

I knew your father, unafraid fighter
Doing the best that he knew, keeping it true
Tryin’ to do better

That such a brother, had no protector,
Would have no-body to fight, none but his wife
out of his corner,

A Headless world lurches on
With bewildered stupor
Stoop and cheer your —
war raging on
Where each soldier fights against stone

Cold fear, burn of the brand, severed hand dealer
Old fear, cull of the clan, studded man killer

We watched a world watching on
At bewildered stupor
Nought to do for
Kin clinging on
United in these states of fear lurching on
With bewildered stupor
Stoop and cheer your —
war raging on
Where each soldier fights against stone

Cold fear, burn of the brand, severed hand dealer
Old fear, cull of the clan, studded man killer
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credits

from Point Less, released August 30, 2019
Drums - Jack Pollitt, Bass - Phil Mulford, Guitar - Al Cherry, Piano - John Crawford, Percussion - Will Fry

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Ola Onabulé UK

Ola’s new album, POINT LESS has been critically received worldwide. The new album is on the DownBeat list of Best Albums of 2019. .

Onabulé is a rugged individualist, a deeply soulful musician. Possessing an emotional intensity and vocal virtuosity, a poignant storyteller and capacity to cross cultural and musical boundaries with an unflinching lyrical pursuit of truth and justice.
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