Ubaba akalele (my father is not at peace). . Ngahlangana nomfo' kasibiya izolo. (I met up with sibiya yesterday). Wathi "we-jonathan, angiphathekile kahle mina.
Lomhlaba unzima, lomhlaba. [this world is a harsh place, this world]. . Picture the end of a cycle. Here's the fire from heaven. There's a tired planeet closing down.
Ngikhanyisele wedlozi lami. Two humans on the run. (repeat). The autumn leaves have trooped their colours. Rumours of the battle to come. Intelligence says you have departed.
I nearly disappeared into the mouth of a crocodile. I nearly touched the rain deep in the heaven on high. I could have been a sad piece of news on the radio.
Bits of songs and broken drums. Are all he could recall. So he spoke to me. In a bastard tongue. Carried on the silence of the guns. . "it's been a long long time.
Wetholakele ngiyakuthanda. Wetholakele ungiphoxa ngento eyodwa wetholakele (x2). (tholakele I love you tholakele. But you upset me badly over one thing...).
Yashimbawula! (the watchman's fire is burning). . What happened to the diamonds in your eyes,. What happened to the hunger for the day's chase?. What happened to the electric smile.
[Chorus]. Here we stand waiting on the plain. Darkness has taken the last outpost of the day. Somewhere gunships hunt their illusive prey. And I know inside you feel the same way.
Electric chair didn't burn a hair. And the newspaperman asked why. And while the warden explain in great detail. The newsman looked in the sky. . "I'm sure", he said.
Through all the days that eat away. At every breath that I take. Through all the nights I've lain alone. In someone else's dream, awake. . All the words in truth we have spoken.
Johnny:. Eshe mfowethu! ithini lenkunzana yasesemanzani?. (hi there 'bro! what does litte bull from the place of waters, say?. Sipho:. Hayi, noma izacile isandonsa-nje.
Zisho inggaba. Iyangala intombazane eshawela. Hawu! inyangala intombazana,. Womama! (repeat). Ngeke kulunga mina. Ngiphuma lenatali, thandiwe mama. Chorus.
Tell him again he don't care much to hear. Mtsheleni madoda akafuni ukulalele. . I was talking to him again. But the never understands me. He thinks it is very strange.
'sishimane gijima ushon' ezinyangeni. Uyamazi nkunzi emnyama? (x2). (hey! unsuccessful lover man, you had better hurry to a magician,. Do you know one called "the black bull"? ).
There's a brawl in a lonely 'whites only' bar. A lekker groove in a classy shebeen. Someone betrayed in a government car. A silent movement on the stock market screen.
She's round like the moon, loves like a big monsoon. And she keeps me crazy. Like a great gondola on a midnight lake. She floats in my heart big and lazy.
Chorus. Take my heart away (repeat). . To be the sound of wild geese calling. To be ten seasons in a night. To dance the sun beyond the tides of war and peace.
Ploughed the moon, reached an island. Balanced on the edge of the sky. But something always stayed the same. Deep down inside. . No matter where I've been, the places don't count.
Chorus. Siyayibamba siyayilanda. Ngithibamba siyayilanda. Sithibamba siyayilanda. Fetch it siyayilanda. (we are fetching our future, grabbing our tomorrow).
Rain forest talking to the dragon-mountain-moon. Stars infest the heavens in the southern skies. Otter swim against the river, whisper in the water. The stars are dead and what you see are shining lies.