Music
On Love, Truth & Freedom – 2012

Her other work includes her debut album On Love, Truth & Freedom which she released in 2012. Her 3 singles Frontlines, Better Things, and soulful ballad Tell Me You Love Me, received heavy rotation on radio including Jacaranda FM and East Coast Radio. To date, multiple songs from the album are currently in use on the SABC 3 soapie Isidingo.
- FIRE
- SOLUTION′S CAR
- BREAKING ME DOWN
- TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
- THE COLD ON THE WALLS
- FRONTLINES
- BETTER THINGS
- YOU CAN LOVE HER
- WHAT WE SEE
- DON’T GO THERE
- I’VE BEEN LOVED
- DOORSTEP
- DREAM WITH YOUR EYES OPEN
- HELLO FROM YOUR PILLOW
FIRE
Written and Composed by Jonathan Ross and Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Spoke about your pain
Spoke about all the girls that hurt you the same
Cause they don’t know
What I know
I really love your way
I love the way that your smile
Fits onto your face
Those knowing eyes
That telling grin
CHORUS
Don’t stand too close to me
I might explode
Don’t stand too close to me
You’ve got the power
To set fire to my bones
VERSE 2
I love the way you came
Like you already knew
I was deemed yours
You took my hand
And shook my soul
Can you do that again?
That thing that says that
My heart it won’t break
That it’s yours to take
And yours to keep
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
Though the coals are white with ash
You continue to suggest
That a fire burns within me
And a heart beats in my chest
Everybody says they want
And you’ve got it, you’re fire (x4)
VERSE 3
Spoke about your name
Turns out you’re the king of my domain
That regal stare
Your hand in mine
[CHORUS] X2
SOLUTION’S CAR
Written and Composed by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Candles in whirlwinds the sky meets the ocean
And there’s no rain
Sandstorms in hourglasses time passes
But we’re frozen in today
PRE-CHORUS
Now I’ve tried to ride solution’s car
But it’s not moving
And I’ve seen rocket ships
In its parking lot
So I’m going flying
CHORUS
With a new age God and a new pair of eyes
To fix the future
Cause I’ve been running round in circles
But I’ll know when I see her
Don’t you worry who is gonna save you
Don’t you worry who is gonna save you
I’m coming back with love
VERSE
Recklessness be careful
You’re gonna crash so hard
Because fast or slow
Rocks don’t feel like pillows
So lay low, but there you go
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
Cause her eyes are purple just like gemstones
Her skin is golden
She laughs like summer, plays with autumn
Her breath is winter
If you’re worried who is gonna save you
Don’t you worry who is gonna save
I’m coming back with love
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BREAKING ME DOWN
Written and Composed by Andre Scheepers and Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Looking back on yesterday
I found myself down and low
I looked around me I knew
I have been here too many times before
Don’t know what happened
How I got myself out there
PRE-CHORUS
But now that I’m good
And no longer torn up
Now that I’m good
You wanna show up
But you’re done breaking me down
CHORUS
Breaking me down X4
Now I’m feeling light as air
It’ll be just like you weren’t there
I won’t break down, down
My love
VERSE 2
Tried so hard, I try to play God
Thought I could do his job
And fix it myself
I thought I never needed help
But I was so wrong cause
When you’re drowning
It’s hard to save yourself
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
I’m here as I am
And yes I love me this way
Let go of my hands
Release me from all these chains
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
Written and Composed by Andre Scheepers and Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Whoever said hearts never break
Was a liar
Whoever said that
Didn’t know about love and fire
PRE-CHORUS
It’s like walking on water
Trying to be here with you
It’s like walking on water
Trying to be here with you
CHORUS
And I’m sinking, Are you gonna save me?
Cause I’m drowning
Tell me you love me, tell me you love me
Tell me you love me, tell me you love me
VERSE 2
Whoever said you were forever
Was a liar
Whoever said that I’d never fall
Didn’t know you were higher
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
Each step that I take
Seems to seal my fate
And I’m just making amends
What more am I to do?
To get me closer to you
But it seems we’ve reached the end
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
THE COLD ON THE WALLS
Written by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Treading softly, I leave me sleeping
My soul climbing skies
Playing ball, I’m alright
Till you ask me to me to be on my team
PRE-CHORUS
But who’s to say
That you’re not one of them
Don’t thunder on my reign (x2)
CHORUS
But now you break your back
Trying to love me
Saluting my father
For giving me your heart
But it’s not enough
When you’re trying to love me
When I cannot tell your touch from
The cold on the walls
I cannot tell your touch from…
VERSE 2
So you sit there so close hands in my hair
I hope you think I’m clean
You say jump, but I don’t know
If you’re that strong
Cause when I fall
I come with the world on my shoulders
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
I wanna move, move with you
But I’m scared I’ll break my legs
So you’ll find me hanging here
When we’re falling through the air [x2]
You look so happy falling through air
[CHORUS]
FRONTLINES
Written and Composed by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
State witnesses say,
That there is a conspiracy
State promises say,
That those speakers are all thieves
And the people wanna know,
where all their money’s gone
And the people wanna know
Who’s got the evidence?
Who’s got the evidence?
PRECHORUS
Don’t make the situation worse
We don’t wanna reverse
But you pride is still
Standing in the way [x2]
CHORUS
We need answers,
Don’t take us back to war
Back to war [x2]
We’re standing at the frontlines
Yet we don’t know what
We’re firing for [x2]
VERSE 2
So take my hand, but you cannot have
All that’s in it no
You can play my game But don’t run away
When you’re not the one winning
And now you wanna go
Where all the angels go
And no you wanna go
But your heart is still too young
And your mind is just too numb
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
So would you hold up your peace signs
In front of rifles
As we point them to our heroes
In the sky [x3]
VERSE 3
And now they say they want
The troops to come home
And the world wonders why?
When they sent them there
In the first place
[CHORUS]
BETTER THINGS
Written and Composed by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Can we conceive, a little more love
Can we just be here, in the middle of your heart
Don’t push me out your mind
I need your thoughts
To help us start thinking
Maybe help us start changing
PRE-CHORUS
Cause when you breathe
You bring new life into this world
Don’t you know you are needed [x2]
CHORUS
So don’t go, to where hate speeches grow
Push the boundaries
Till there no more boundaries
Don’t go to where your anger grows
I’ll trade your negativity
I promise I’ve got better things, better things
I’ll trade your negativity
I promise I’ve got better things, better things
VERSE 2
They say we don’t need another sad song
Not another one of Africa falling
Cause Somalia is pretty when you look away
I don’t wanna leave it there
On my newspaper
Talking about it over dinner
Where we act like we don’t forget
[PRE – CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
I do believe that you have one duty
And that’s to love, love, love,
Love love
And if we fall out of truth
And the bad things start to move in
Just love, love, love
Love, Love, Love
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
YOU CAN LOVE HER
Written by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
He can take her, just to break her
Steal her power, shoot his own messenger
He can filter all the good in her
Blur her vision, stray her from her vision
He can be the worst at the worst
Choose what man you’re gonna be
That’s if you want to see (x2)
CHORUS 1
You can love her,
Love her, love her (x2)
See that you can love her
You can build her
To be something better
You can love her
Love her, love her
VERSE 2
She can take him and drown him in sin
Eliminate him, rip apart
All his dreams
She can lie to him
And sound convincing
Get him thinking
He’s a twisted thing
Twisted thing
She can be the worst at the worst
Choose what woman you’re gonna be
That’s if you want to see
CHORUS 2
That you can love him
Love him, love him
You can love him
See that you can love him
You can move him
Make him feel like your king
You can love him, love him
Love him
And you can love her,
Love her, love her
You can love her
See that you can love her
You can build her
To be something better
You can love her
Love her, love her
BRIDGE
Open yourself up to the thought
To be there, just be there
And feel yourself get lost
To be there, just be there
And feel yourself get lost
But choose what woman you’re gonna be
That’s if you want to see
Choose what man you’re gonna be
That’s if you want to see
[CHORUS 1]
[CHORUS 2]
WHAT WE SEE
Written by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
There’s an eternal need for spiritual company
To satisfy the mind’s desire
But subconsciously we forge imagery
Into the ones we seek
And then they get the truth redeemed
[PRE-CHORUS]
They say that we’re done for
We shouldn’t try another door
[CHORUS]
Cause they won’t see what we see
Or feel what we feel
They won’t hear our sound
So they won’t try to retrieve
Our hearts beating underground (x2}
VERSE 2
Tell me we’re living in the fire
What are we contributing
Except for the traces in those ashes
Of those places you don’t wish to go
Our existence pretend you don’t know
That we’re still lying there
Black, naked and bare for you to claim
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
Just another tail of a nation burned
And you let bygones be bygones (x2)
But it’s your fear that we thrive on, thrive on
And so we live and we strive on, strive on
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
DON’T GO THERE
Written and Composed by Lilly Million & Andre Scheepers
VERSE 1
Broken I’m laying on the floor
I don’t wanna feel this anymore
Can I just stay here please don’t move me
Cause I’m free of you
Finally
[CHORUS]
If I could I would go back
To where we met
And not go there,
I wouldn’t go there
The hurt and the pain
Would all be in vain
If I didn’t go there
Please don’t go, don’t go
Please don’t go, don’t go there [x2]
VERSE 2
Could you please not look into my eyes
It will lead to my hearts demise
I know you’re leaving, don’t forget me
I don’t wanna be, the only one
Holding on to memories
[CHORUS]
I’VE BEEN LOVED
Written and composed by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Stillness, nothing but stillness
Except for one flame that makes the shadows move
And the rain dancing outside my room
It’s nothing but stillness, nothing but stillness
Except my mind won’t stop racing
My head won’t stop pacing
Around thoughts of you
CHORUS
Late night conversations tell me who you are
One late night conversation and I’ve been loved
I’ve been loved
VERSE 2
Breaking, I finally stopped breaking
And myself smiles at me the way she smiles at you
Your breath comes and goes
And it’s fine if I’m moved
Cause breaking, I finally stopped breaking
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
Have you ever fallen in your secrets
And nobody knows?
I’ve fallen in your secrets
And nobody knows
Where I go when the lights go out
Where I write these songs
Praying heaven down
When the lights go out
Where I write these songs
Praying heaven down
VERSE 3
It’s in that stillness, the nothing but stillness
Where breaking, I finally stopped breaking
[CHORUS]
DOORSTEP
Written and composed by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Tell you what I did today
Had a meeting with superman
I told him it’s not looking good for him
Just got my promotion and now it is my turn
To try and save the world
But stop smoking first, black world girl stop smoking first
[PRE-CHORUS]
Oh and by the way
I built you a house from scratch
I even borrowed tar for the driveway
I built you a house from scratch
I even borrowed tar for the driveway
[CHORUS]
But ooh, there came a little sick devil
Breaking down my doorstep
Ripping out the (ooh)
There came a little sick devil
Breaking down my doorstep
Ripping out my doorbell
But I never got scared I sent it back to hell
With some coal and an extra box of matches
I never got scared I sent it back to hell
With some coal and an extra box of matches
VERSE 2
Tell you what I did today
Painted the silver lining gold
And now things look the way they did before
The pirates came this way and took all the diamonds
Replacing them with the stars
I was there and I saw it first
You were there and you saw it too
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
Flies on the wall, ants on the floor
Spiders on the ceiling
Cars on the ground, trains on the tracks
And we’re on the pavement
Flies on the wall, ants on the floor
Spiders on the ceiling
And I have a feeling
I’m the only one who care
About what the heck is in the air
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[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
DREAM WITH YOUR EYES OPEN
Written by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
The lights lay low and my sight is left behind
And my mind travels high
I’m sitting on the universe
Throwing rocks at Saturn
And playing with the Martians
PRE-CHORUS
If someone tells you that it’s not true
Bring them I’ll teach them to dream with their eyes open
If someone tells you that’s it’s not true
Bring them I’ll teach them to dream with their eyes open
To dream with their eyes open
CHORUS
Sometimes I look beyond my world’s outline
Cause most times I know that I’m not blinded
I sometimes, I look beyond my world’s outline
Cause most times I know that I’m not blinded
VERSE 2
I’ll take a wild guess, I have been so blessed
By these changing seasons
Who come with no reason
So here I stand under the edge
Gravity defined, the ocean is my sky
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
BRIDGE
It’s getting hazy, getting hazy, getting hazy
I know at times you think that you think I’m crazy
I’m just saying that I need
I need a new breeze but
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
HELLO FROM YOUR PILLOW
Written by Lilly Million
VERSE 1
Hello, I said hello
I’m calling from your pillow
With a protest coming from dream world
Do you dream me? Do you read me
See I’ve observed you’re no longer hearing us
And I’ve seen that you think you’re too smart for us
But you are us
You are us
CHORUS
And you can insult me with your thoughts
Explain me away with your words
I’m still above your comprehension
So please just listen, avoid the tension
Only through me can you fly
Like the bird that you say you are
Only through me can you
Fly like the bird that you say you are
So…
[VERSE 2]
Hello, I said hello
I’m calling from your pillow
Oh your smile is awfully grey now
You need colour
Pick up your sleep you need to call us
See I’m not meant to die inside you
Suffocated by your worldly views
Release me, I demand, you release me
[CHORUS] X2
So hello