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Ma Chérie

Track 25 of 15

Ma Chérie

Heartbreak, Comedy, Self-Love. From 'Good Morning' texts to discovering you're saved as 'Free Food.'

About This Track

A bilingual tragicomedy of modern love gone wrong. Pidgin, French, and hashtags collide as the narrator goes from devoted lover to discovering he's 'Admin 3' — then flips the script into a self-love anthem.

Lyrics

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Ah... this life

You try to give woman your heart

She go take am, play football, score penalty inside your soul

Wahala!

Drop the beat, make I talk my mind

I send you "Good Morning," mon amour

You see my message, you put me on 'Ignore'

I call your phone, e go straight to voice mail

But you dey online, you dey post your new nails

Shame!

I dey try my best, ma chérie

But you dey 'post' me, you dey post me steady

You post me like letter, you post me like bill

This kind loving, e dey make me sick, e dey make me ill

Why you playing with my heart, c'est pas facile

It's not easy!

You go post me today, you go post me tomorrow

I give you my love, you give me pure wahala

Ah, ma chérie, why you dey do me so

E don post am again!

I see you for the club, you dey with another man

I wave at you, you look me like "Who be this one"

A-yai!

Now I'm sitting in my car, feeling #Stressed

I really thought that our love was #Blessed

You got me checking my phone, feeling #Pressed

This whole situation is #AMess

But the hashtag life no be real life

I'm tired of the pain, I'm tired of the strife

I buy you cadeau, you say e no fine

You dey jouer with my heart like e be your timeline

Why you playing with my heart, c'est pas facile

You go post me today, you go post me tomorrow

I give you my love, you give me pure wahala

Ah, ma chérie, why you dey do me so

She be gamer!

Wait... stop the beat

I see your text message... you forget your phone

You get 'Admin 1,' 'Admin 2,' 'Backup Boo'

And me? You save my name as... 'Free Food'

Tufiakwa!

C'est la vie... the joke was on me

But while I was busy tryin' to love you

I forgot to love moi-même

So I delete your number, I block your WhatsApp

I'm taking myself on a date, I no need your trap

The love I dey find, e dey inside me

I am the King, je suis the G

No more wahala, no more drama-oh

I'm flying solo, I'm my own hero

You played yourself, but you no fit play me

This self-love banger, e dey set me free

She played me, c'est fini

I'm free, je suis libre

E don end! I dey kampe

The wahala don stop

No more posting! I'm posting my new life

I love myself-oh! Na the real banger be dat

Giddem!

HeartbreakComedySelf-Love