There are times, like I feel today, when we don’t want to keep fighting. We place down our pen, our phone, our tools, and look at the unfinished tasks and chaos stretched before us with shear exhaustion and defeat. Sampa Tembo, known professionally as Sampa the Great, is a Zambian-born Australia-based rapper and songwriter who wrote the song entitled “Don’t Give Up.” Her message is simple, yet the composition of this piece is thick with uplifting power.
“Don’t Give Up”
By Sampa The Great
No
Don’t give up
Don’t give up
No not yet
Eh eh
No
Don’t give up
Don’t give up
No not yet
Eh eh
Eh eh
Eh eh
Night comes
Night goes
I fly
Solo
I come
Hollow
Building the bridge of the ghetto
Night comes
Night goes
I fly
Solo
I come
Hollow
Building the bridge of the ghetto
Someone’s in my fears
Someone’s in my ears
Some of them I build on me
Some of them out here
Latching on my cloak
Latching till I choke
Some of them is smiling
Them thinking I don’t know
No
No
Don’t give up
Don’t give up
No not yet
Eh eh
No
Don’t give up
Don’t give up
No not yet
Eh eh
Eh eh
Eh eh
Nighttime
I find
I climb
My mind
Fly through the air
The air
Nighttime
I find
I climb
My mind
Fly through the air
The air
The air
Eh
Eh eh
Eh eh
Eh eh
No
Don’t give up
Don’t give up
No not yet
Eh eh
No
Don’t give up
Don’t give up
No not yet
Eh eh
Eh eh
Eh eh
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Perrin Moss / Sampa Tembo
Don’t Give Up lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.