One Man's Noise - Wanna return to Africa
Channel: onemansnoise / Dimitris Athanasopoulos
Date: 2022-09-22

Music, lyrics, kologo - Dimitris Athanasopoulos (One Man's Noise)
Video - Stella Meligounaki

Lyrics

Kologo makes me move
kologo makes me groove
kologo makes me wanna return to Africa

Wanna return to the roots
wanna learn about my past
wanna dream about my future
hear the song of my descendants
wanna return to africa

Of the people I learned
to be a student
it’s beautiful to hear from the people 
and learn from the people
from what the people say and what the people do
their deeds their words their sayings their works

how many things I learned from the people that I met
from all the friends
from all my co workers and co players
from my family I learned so much
from the beuaitful instruments with their  voices
from my travels I learned so much

the ones that I found in front of me on my way
and they stopped me and say, way, this is my reality?
do you wanna learn something about it?
Do you do you wanna learn? I said yes I wanna learn
Do you wanna learn how we live here in Ghana? I said yes I wanna learn

do you wanna learn about this instrument
I said yes I wanna learn
and so I want to learn the kologo
and sing and sing my songs and sing and sing

Kologo makes me move
kologo makes me groove
kologo makes me wanna return to Africa

I told you all the beautiful people I met I made them my teachers
but the most important teacher of all is the self
is the one who has to listen
yourself is the one who has to listen
your heart is the one who has to listen 
if yourself is closed, the world is closed
if the heart is closed, information is closed
if the self is closed
how many many people you are gonna meet
there is not a lot you gonna learn and keep
if the heart is closed
how many smile you gonna get
soon you will soon you will forget
if the self is open
it blossoms like a flower
if the heart is open 
it sails like a ship
if the heart is open
it gives the right answers

and so one day one beautiful day the self asked the heart,
do you wanna return to africa?
I said yes I wanna go
I wanna go and play the kologo
I wanna return to africa

Kologo makes me move
kologo makes me groove
kologo makes me wanna return to Africa