Every compromise arrives on her terms and every apology only lands when she already agrees. An engineer tries to debug a relationship and keeps finding the logic gates have been changed behind him.
(I am with you... but only on your terms.)
(No... na your terms. The final score... e always remain the same. Why?)
(Oya!)
If I no fit get am from you, then who?
Maybe e good for the other, but e no good for me
Repeated patterns, zero improvement
A system crash, and I just no dey see it?
Or maybe I see am... (Ah-ha)
And the output no just dey enough?
I take a step back, recalibrate the link
And I realize this just a distraction...
For even in the same game, we replace the players
But the final score, e always remain the same!
I want to give, I want to give you freely
But I find myself trapped, I no fit do what I need to do!
But na Your Terms! (Ay!)
Everything I do, na Your Terms! (Omo!)
(You only 'pologize when you agree!)
(You only compromise when you agree!)
It's the same game! Same game!
Final score, e be the same!
(Na Your Terms!) (Ah-ah!)
(You only do this... when you agree!)
Why your head dey hot? (Tell me)
Why you so aggressive?
All this baggage of the ones before
Na me suppose dey pay for? (Ehn?)
I can understand wetin you say, even if I no agree
But you, you cannot agree!
Because you no dey understand wetin I dey say!
(You no dey hear!)
Look—I'm an engineer, I study how the parts fit
But you're a ghost in the machine, I can't chart it
I'm writing scripts to fix the friction in the household
But you change the logic gates, keeping me in out-cold
I'm from the DMV, we know about the traffic
Moving miles but standing still, yeah the scene is tragic
I'm a writer, I could draft a better ending for us
But you're deleting every line before we hit the chorus
It's a design flaw, building on a fractured base
Checking the schematics just to see a different face
I'm trying to optimize, you're trying to override
How can I build a home when you're never on my side?
Check the blueprint—the math is getting messy
You want the crown, but you never want the levy!
(NA YOUR TERMS!)
For even in the same game, we replace the players!
(Na you be the player!)
The final score, e always remain the same!
(Na you dey play the game!)
I want to give freely!
(Your hands are tied? By who?!)
But na Your Terms! (Ay!)
Everything I do, na Your Terms! (Omo!)
(You only 'pologize when you agree!)
(You only compromise when you agree!)
It's the same game! Same game!
Final score, e be the same!
(Na Your Terms!) (Ah-ah!)
(You only do this... when you agree!)
But wait...
Maybe that's not it. I mean... it's something.
But maybe e no be it.
Okay, I mean, it's serious to me... but... maybe it's not it.
(You only do this... you only do that...)
(When you agree... when you agree...)
NA YOUR TERMS!
But na Your Terms! (Ay!)
Everything I do, na Your Terms! (Omo!)
(You only 'pologize when you agree!)
(You only compromise when you agree!)
It's the same game! Same game!
Final score, e be the same!
(Na Your Terms!) (Ah-ah!)
(You only do this... when you agree!)
(Same game... same score...)
(Na your terms... only your terms...)
(You only compromise... when you agree...)
(You only do this...)
(Final tick.)