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Song · Pepper No Dey Lie

One Earpiece

“One Earpiece” is track 10 on Rob Matare's Afrobeats album Pepper No Dey Lie, released October 6, 2026. Naija Afrobeats from the kitchen to the carnival: wedding jollof, auntie's recipe, groundnut and garri.

Rob MatareAfrobeats3:02Movement & Celebration

“One Earpiece” lyrics

One earpiece for your ear
(One earpiece)
The other one dey my own
(Dey my own)
One phone between two pockets
(Two pockets)
Wire short, so waka near

Brt bus queue long this evening
You dey hum the song I love
I offer the left earpiece
Like person wey dey share bread
You look am, look me, collect am
The city noise fall away
Two strangers inside one chorus
The queue move, we no notice

No pause am yet
The bridge never reach
No pause am yet
Make the outro meet us

One earpiece for your ear
(One earpiece)
The other one dey my own
(Dey my own)
One phone between two pockets
(Two pockets)
Wire short, so waka near

Mmm, mmm
(Waka near)
Mmm, mmm

Now we get playlist with two names
Songs wey be like our children
You dey skip my heavy jams
I dey endure your love songs

The old wired earpiece don spoil
You keep am for the bedside table
Say some things no be for dustbin
Some things be museum things

The table hold the dead earpiece
Copper wire coil like question
You say the day we buy Bluetooth
Na the day we stop to waka near
So we never buy am

One earpiece for your ear

One earpiece

The other one dey my own
(Dey my own)
One phone between two pockets
(Two pockets)
Wire short, so waka near

One earpiece for your ear

One earpiece for your ear

Museum things
One earpiece

Lyrics written by Rob Matare. Written by me • made with AI. Artist visuals are digitally created.

More from Pepper No Dey Lie

  1. 1Pepper No Dey Lie2:37
  2. 2Wedding Jollof2:52
  3. 3Chin Chin2:39
  4. 4Taste Test2:38
  5. 5Auntie's Recipe3:30
  6. 6Sugar in My Tea2:47
  7. 7Plantain Sweet2:42
  8. 8Cold Mineral2:41
  9. 9Half Orange2:45
  10. 11Groundnut and Garri2:55
  11. 12Laminate2:35
  12. 13Where Is Tony2:46
  13. 14Unknown Number3:02
  14. 15Last Seen3:09
  15. 16Empty Parlor3:10
  16. 17Repaint3:16
  17. 18One Loose Braid3:20
  18. 19Pass the Phone3:18
  19. 20Passport Moon2:52
  20. 21Second Rice2:47
  21. 22Go-Slow Carnival3:00
  22. 23Conductor, No Call My Stop3:02
  23. 24The Anchor3:42

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