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Badagry Beach
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Mongo Park
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The explorer loved the light of Badagry Beach
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The singer Fela sang of the lights and the noise in her city air of Badagry Beach.
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The Portuguese sailors found trade on the malarious shores of Badagry Beach.
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The rusty shackles remain and bare testament of what went before.
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And I, if I knew her less, would I love her more?
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Coz when I get to close to her
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Is when I can't see the beauty of her anymore
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A masquerade, a beggar man, an Iroko tree, palm wine, a coral snake
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Badagry was one of those beautiful and deadly things at the same time.
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Down by the mission under the Agia tree of Badagry Beach
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And I wonder to myself how many secrets she holds and will never let show.
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And as I walk along her golden shore line
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Diesel oil and sand under my feet
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Washed by the tides that came before and come again
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Harmattan winds are blowing
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Harmattan winds are blowing
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Spirits that swirl in the dust devils and disappear
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A loneliness that is continental wanders far and wide
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A loneliness that is an inward thing
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Can rock itself to sleep every night
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And I, if I knew her less, would I love her more?
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If I knew her less, would I love her more?
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Coz when I get too close to her
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Is when I can't see the beauty of her anymore.
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