Unavailable is track 5 of Davido’s much anticipated album, Timeless. The song featuring Musa Keys is the 3rd most listened to on YouTube currently with over 1 million views – bearing in mind the whole album is in audio version.
Musa ‘Keys’ Makamu, although he bears the name Tayo on Instagram, is a South African artist focused on the popular Amapiano genre.
What is the meaning in the song?
Davido is singing that he is unavailable to the people constantly wanting to know his whereabouts, his personal life and life in general. The song mainly targets people carrying news as he says “Say I carry woman”, “Shey na man I for carry?”.
The 30 year old artists also makes reference to just being human and should be treated as such, but given the way he is almost seen as god on earth and his stories are everywhere, he prefers to remove himself from the equation, to be inaccessible to anyone.
Watch the music on YouTube here.
See lyrics of Davido’s Unavailable ft Musa Keys. Full translations and English meaning
Davido
Baddest
You know
Eh, eh, eh, eh
Tune into the king of sounds and blues
Initiating rage process
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dey see me (dem no dey see) – They cannot see me
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dey see me (dem no dey see)
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dey see me (dem no dey see)
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dey see me (dem no dey see)
And I sorry for who? (who)
Who wan gbe my matter s’ori – Who wants to put my matter on his or her head
I’m only human (human)
So make nobody para oh – So no one should go crazy
Say I carry woman (woman)
Shey na man wey I for carry? – Should I have carried man?
F**k all the rumours
And e get when I talk sey I be pastor – Or is there a time I ever said I was a pastor?
Hmm, ye, ye
If you know, you oh
The kind work
If it’s not owo oh – If its not money
I can’t talk
‘Cause, owo ni koko (koko) – Cause money is the main thing
Oga Ade, dey your dey – Mr Ade, stay in your lane
Me I dey for the dey – Me I am in my lane
Girl I’m unavailable
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dem see me (dem no dey see)
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dem see me (dem no dey see)
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dem see me (dem no dey see)
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dem see me (dem no dey see)
Musa Keys
Don’t dim my light
I don’t have no time –
Come see me shinning
Got to many birds on my ig
I’m changing my life oh
And my mama prouding me
She got me going
This fenty call my freedom
‘Cause I’m a big propeller
Shine for everyone, give coachella
Score a big banana
I’m a big propeller
Shine for everyone, give coachella
Score a big banana
‘Cause I’m a big propeller
Shine for everyone, give coachella
Score a big banana
I’m a big propeller
(?)
Davido
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dem see me (dem no dey see)
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dem see me (dem no dey see)
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dem see me (dem no dey see)
I’m unavailable (unavailable)
Dem no dem see me (dem no dey see)