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Focus & Fire

Alternate Title: 
Focus & Fire

Artist & Tune

Composed by: 
Niyonu Spann
Rec/Performed by: 
The Nuyoni Singers

Version by The Nuyoni Singers

Reference

Genre: 
composed folk US
Culture: 
African-American

About the Song

Look ahead of you (Focus & fire)
Look ahead of you (Focus & be it)
Look ahead of you (Focus & fire)

Scratch tryin’ to get back to the norm
No time for us re-conform
Must liberate our vision
Be true

Focus & fire
Focus &... (repeat)

See it clearly in your mind
Hold it there, take out the time
Pull it in & you will find
You

We wait to see just what you know
We need your part, it’s time to show us
All that you’ve been given
Come through

Don’t ask around for what to do
This picture only lives in you
Have the strength to pull it through
Now

Speak it now & and bring it through
Give it form in this world too (repeat 3x)

This is what you’ve come to do now

lyrics & music by Niyonu Spann. (c) 1997 & 2020. All rights reserved.

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