Empty Parlor

AC dey blow for empty parlor
(Empty parlor)
Big TV dey watch me back
(Watch me back)
Sixteen chairs around the table
(Only me)
Empty parlor, full account

Oh-oh

(Empty parlor)
(Watch me back)
(Only me)
Empty parlor, full account

The compound I grow up inside
We be eleven for two rooms
Nobody get privacy
But nobody get lonely too
Now the interlocking tiles dey shine
The gateman dey call me sir
The fridge full of water bottles
Standing straight like strangers

I pray for this house
The prayer answer
I pray for this house
I forget one part

AC dey blow for empty parlor
(Empty parlor)
Big TV dey watch me back
(Watch me back)
Sixteen chairs around the table
(Only me)
Empty parlor, full account

My guy from the old compound call
Him no dey ask me for money
Him dey ask if I don chop
Old questions, correct questions
I drive go buy roast plantain
From the woman near my old street
I chop am inside the car, parked
Best meal this house never cook

Plantain skin dey the car floor
The long table dey wait at home
My phone dey find the old number
Say make everybody come Sunday
The parlor go earn him name

AC dey blow for empty parlor
(Empty parlor)
Big TV dey watch me back
(Watch me back)
Sixteen chairs around the table
(Only me)
Empty parlor — till Sunday come
Empty parlor — till Sunday come

Sunday go full am
Empty parlor