The song is by popular Kikuyu secular music artist Mureithi John Walker and the title of the song in question is 'Nuu uii Haria Kiri?' (Who Knows Where It Is?).
This song infuses many traditional Kikuyu proverbs that have a lot of hidden meanings perharps the reason it is subject to misinterpretations among those who like it.
For instance, when the song is played in any pub around Thika, everyone who understands the Gikuyu language will stand up to dance to its tune.
The song opens by the artist asking who knows where it is to tell him so that he can touch it with his own hands. But what is this thing? Well, that is where the misinterpretation comes in.
The artist infuses two Kikuyu proverbs that go, 'utari giake ndari ngoro' ((He/she that does not have anything has no choice) and 'utari giake ndari ngoro' (He/she that does not have something, has it stored for them).
Mureithi then wonders where that unexplained thing that belongs to him could be because its absence makes him spend sleepless nights.
He says that men know very well that the thing create harmony while women are aware that it is the foundation of a strong relationship. Unfortunately, he notes, the thing in question has no label and neither can it speak to tell its prospective owner who is tirelessly looking for it, where it is.
Mureithi adds that men often fight for this thing with everyone claiming that it is his. He thus proposes for a men 'kamukunji' to be convened so that everyone can show where their thing is.
He, however, warns men that already know where their thing is to keep off the meeting. This thing, he further notes, has different sizes but it does not matter because the importance of a guard is to ferment porridge (Gikuyu proverb).
So what is this thing again? Only the artist can tell us what it is that he is looking for. For now, one can continue interpreting for themselves what they think this thing is.