Sally Mwalr - Nobody Like You (Official Audio)

Описание: Obsessively anchored in the conviction that not everyone can be replaced, the song explores the inner world of an unswerving loyalist standing in the ruins of love and grappling with longing and memories, it’s a melancholy love song in a very adult way. Exploring the absurdity of being “forgotten” by people you would have done everything for while they find it so easy to live like you never played a role in their life. It obsessively acknowledges that some people are not replaceable, not because they were perfect, but because of what they were to you.

Refusing to bend to “social contracts” and perceptions of love, it’s a brave piece that refuses to intellectualize grief and one that challenges the belief that everyone grieves the same way. In a world obsessed with closure and “moving on,” the song stands its ground and insists that some stories never conclude — quietly suggesting that logic is not the highest truth in matters of the heart.

Without blame and without attempting to conceal emotional numbness, the song accepts that sometimes it’s okay to not know what to do with loss and grief and pushes back against the idea that healing must look productive or
reasonable. Instead, it walks through loss without having it fixed, explained, or replaced with “something logical” – almost allowing it to exist as a permanent transition in life.

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Intro:
“Don’t think I’ll let you down – I’ll never, ever, let you down.”

(A lingering absence built on promises and memories that once felt so divine and eternal has created an everlasting grief that repeats itself.)

Verse 1:
You came into my life [and] rearranged the big things
I’d have sworn I had an angel as I lived – without waiting to die
Since you left, I’ve learnt to never cry
But, really, believe me: how you kept me satisfied??
I’ve never been through hot pain like this

(Very “small, simple” things became the stuff of love, made life feel like heaven on earth, and ended up redefining existence itself. They don’t understand how they went from being in the warmth of "an angel" to a
clinical, freezing reality.)

Chorus:
Ndikumaku –sowa – kuku –sowa (I get missing you, missing you)
I’ve searched the whole world – there’s nobody like you
Ndikumaku –sowa – kuku –sowa (I get missing you, missing you)
I lived the world long enough – there’s nobody like you

(This is not nostalgia or idealization — it’s the sober conclusion of someone who understands the depth of what they lost. It’s the emotional center that
expresses dolefulness in its purest form — missing someone without anger, blame, or expectation of return.

Mixing languages intensifies the feeling, suggests that some feelings don’t land fully in every language, and feels as though no single language is enough to express the loss, grounding the grief in something instinctive and untranslatable.)

Outro:
Oh oh oh oh oh oh (Oh oh oh oh oh oh)
Nxa, ah ah ah ah

(Uses non-lexical vocables to gash out the kind of feelings that simple words alone never could.)

Verse 2:
I miss that kind of love
That’s not tied to lies, your fame, money,
And what they’re taking from you
I would have gone every stride to be there for you
But…
Don’t you remember me?? I am falling through life… (It’s someone realizing their suffering isn’t even visible to the person they would have done everything for while the other person found it so easy to erase their existence.)

(Explores why there’s no such thing as “moving on” –flatly refusing the idea of love as a function of transactions , biological clocks, fear of loneliness, social pressure, status, or reasons like that. It rejects these reasons entirely because what was lost did not come from strategy, timing, or necessity. It came naturally, without looking for it. Observes that it’s easy for people to move from one person to another when love is not the foundation, because nothing essential is being violated. This is not a mere inability to move on; it’s about the refusal to participate in “replacement love.”)

Chorus:
No...
Ndukukusowa – ndakusowa (I am missing you, I have missed you)
Yeah... I have searched the whole world – there’s nobody like you
Ndikumaku –sowa – ndakusowa (I do get missing you, I have missed you)
No... In the whole world there’s nobody like you

Bridge:
“It’s the whole world – you could always find, from that world, someone like me…”

(Reflects on the traces people leave behind when they are “done with you.” They tell you to “move on” just because they have. It’s a social critique that captures how society gaslights you.)

Chorus:
Ndimakusowa – ndakusowa (I get missing you, missing you)
I've searched the whole world – there’s no one like you
Ndakusowa – ndukusowa (I have missed you, I am missing you)
Mm, yes... In the whole world there’s nobody like you