Nigerian recording artist NNEKA (pronounced "Neck-'a') performs her Top 10 European hit "Heartbeat" from her forthcoming CD "Concrete Jungle." Actual song starts at 3:03. Available for download on ITunes and Amazon.com. Photographed by Mike D. and Craig Carpenter on 11/13/2009 at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia PA for Reelblack/Captured Soul. Visit www.worldcafelive.com and www.nnekaworld.com
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You said you'd be there for me
In times of trouble when I need you and I'm down
And like why do you need friendship
It's from my side pure love but I see lately things have been changing
You have goals to achieve
But the road you take abroad and heartless that wants you make another way
You throw stones
Can't you see that I am human I am breathing
But you don't give a damnChorus
Can't you feel my heart is beating
Can't you see the pain you're causing
Can't you feel my heart is beating
Can't you see the pain you're causingBlood blood blood... keeps rushingAnd now the world is asleep
How will you ever wake her up when she gets deep in the dreams, wishing
And yet so many die
And still we think that it is all about us
It's all about you
You sold your soul to the evil and the lust
And the passion and the money and you
And the same ones die, and people hunger for talking,
Suffer under civilized damn robbers but they stabled usChorus
Can't you feel my heart is beating
Can't you see the pain you're causing
Can't you feel my heart is beating
Can't you see the pain you're causingBlood blood blood... keeps rushingInvaded, eliminated, erased, interrogated
Our tradition, our love for our fellow countrymen,
Our property, our ancestors - have diedCan you feel, can you feel my heart beating?Chorus
Can't you feel my heart is beating
Can't you see the pain you're causing
Can't you feel my heart is beating
Can't you see the pain you're causing
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