After All These Years

[Verse 1]

Used to count my coins by candlelight

Phone off

Tired eyes

But I’d still write

Mama praying quiet in the next room

“Baby

One day all this sweat will bloom”

[Pre-Chorus]

I remember walking home through the rain

Laughing so I wouldn’t cry from the pain

Now we pull up

Same street

Different frame

Same girl

But they gotta learn my name (yeah)

[Chorus]

After all these years

We dey celebrate

Hands up high

We no come to wait

Wine your body

Let the worries fade

We made it

We made it

After all these years

We dey elevate

Turn the struggle into something great

Dance for every time the bill was late

We made it

We made it (oh-woah)

[Verse 2]

Used to hide my dreams in old notebooks

Promised I would leave

Gave myself those looks

Now they screenshot every little thing I post

Same ones wey used to laugh the most

[Pre-Chorus]

I forgive

But I never will forget

How it feels putting all you got on bet

Now I’m smiling at the mirror like a friend

Saying

“Girl

Your story just begin” (begin)

[Chorus]

After all these years

We dey celebrate

Hands up high

We no come to wait

Wine your body

Let the worries fade

We made it

We made it

After all these years

We dey elevate

Turn the struggle into something great

Dance for every time the bill was late

We made it

We made it (yeah, yeah)

[Bridge]

[Beat drops to drums and bass

Crowd claps]

From the gutter to the gold

We rise (we rise)

Every scar on my heart

My prize (my prize)

If you hustle from the dark to light

Shake your stress off

Live tonight (live tonight)

[Chorus]

After all these years

We dey celebrate

Hands up high

We no come to wait

Wine your body

Let the worries fade

We made it

We made it

After all these years

We dey elevate

Turn the struggle into something great

Dance for every tear we had to taste

We made it

We made it (we made it, we made it)

We made it

We made it (we made it, we made it)