The album opener is a haunting confession of love lost through carelessness. Pidgin and poetry collide as the narrator mourns a goddess he failed to hold — part prayer, part plague, all regret.
At the beginning of time
When all faith sublime
When you... were not... mine
I wish... I wish I didn't have to wish
Oya, hear my story
At the beginning, faith be sublime
Before your matter come scatter my mind
Elbows crossed, all my hope dey dwindle
Darkness dey fly, no candle enkindle
The shadows come, the hopeless form
But I know say, na my heart be the storm
Na my heart, storm the plague
Wey scatter the land of desert, I beg
And leave the norm... ah
Until you come
But the goddess I met, she soon take form
With black eyes and dry shadowy horn
With lavish lips, but coated with thorn
With bright skin wey dey burn me like sun
Your piercing gaze, e no fit turn
E hook me one time, now I dey run
Now you dey run
Omo, you solve the puzzle of our mind
Ay, but I wish I had fit to press rewind
I hate myself for never being so kind
I wish I never had left you behind
Forever bind, I wish I fit
Forever bind, but now I just dey wish
After you, I feel like bubonic plague
This suffering, e be chronic, no be vague
Like small pikin wey no get any aid
I dey run like dog wey no get shade
I dey scream "I wish I never made"
See the level wey my whole life degrade
I dey think... "Why I do you like dis"
I throw away my only bliss
But the goddess I met, she soon take form
With black eyes and dry shadowy horn
With lavish lips, but coated with thorn
With bright skin wey dey burn me like sun
Your piercing gaze, e no fit turn
You left me... now you must burn
Omo, you solve the puzzle of our mind
Ay, but I wish I had fit to press rewind
I hate myself for never being so kind
I wish I never had left you behind
Forever bind, I wish I fit
Forever bind, but now I just dey wish
Now at the end of time
Na now I wish you were mine
I solved the puzzle, but I crossed the line
I wish I had glued... I wish I fit bind
I hate myself... for never being... kind
I wish you didn't have to wish... but you do
REWIND
Omo, you solve the puzzle of our mind
Ay, but I wish I had fit to press rewind
I hate myself for never being so kind
I wish I never had left you behind
Forever bind, I wish I fit
Forever bind, but now I just dey wish
I wish I never left you behind
My goddess... my goddess
Na so I dey wish
Left you behind
I wish I didn't have to wish