I don't want to be a tourist in your heart. I don't want to visit someone else's ruins. Don't want a day trip to the feelings in the dark. Don't want a quick-fix honeymoon.
Wanderers and nomads have gone to see their chieftains. Will this be the end of the rain and the birds?. Who can send an emissary to speak to the seasons?.
One day I looked up and there you were,. Like a simple question looking for an answer.. Now I am the whale listening to some inner call,. Swimming blindly to throw myself upon your shore..
It's a world of "hang on to what you've got". It's a world of "do or die". I know you never take it serious. And you keep your head up high. I know you'd like to speak to the manager.
You have to wash with the crocodile in the river. You have to swim with the sharks in the sea. You have to live with the crooked politician. Trush those things that you can never see.
In the history of all dreams. None has shone as brightly as you. Wrestling with your book of colours. Page by page I look for clues. >from the gloom of my dark window.
Umoya wami onakele kunsela elangena. Lapha enhlizweni yami (x2). (my spirits are down, a thief has entered my heart). Laqegeza lathatha uthando lwami lonke,.
It was a day or so ago. I saw him run into the night. . And on his face, more than a trace. Of wild fear in the eye. He was haunted by a tragic dream.
Baba, ngizwe isimanga, mina. Ngizwe isimanga. Baba, ngizwe isimanga, mina. Ngizwe isimanga. Isoka ladlala ngentombi, isoka (repeat). Isoka alikhiphanga inkomo, isoka (repeat).
Welcome to my island. But please don't you stay too long. I wouldn't want anyone to think. That something's going on. Toe the line. And you'll be fine.
Chorus:. Asimbonanga--------------------(we have not seen him). Asimbonang' umandela thina-----(we have not seen mandela). Laph'ekhona--------------------(in the place where he is).
Hawa Beke Mama Oye. Hamba ugadile (be alert and be on guard). I feel a river in flood in my veins. I can feel your love in my brain. It wants to dance my life.
Hawu! Bheka Mama! Oye!. Hamb'ugadile! (be alert and be on guard). I feel a river in flood in my veins. I can feel your love in my brain. It wants to dance my life.
Something's changed in the weather. There's a movement underground. Something slipped from the finger. And may never again be found. Standing lost by a river.
African sky blue, your children wait for the dawn. African sky blue, soon a new day will be born. African sky blue. African sky blue, will you bless my life?.
If you come to my house. I will show you something to see. It's a picture of a man, I used to be. . But these days I'm running through the dark. Like a blind man, what's happened to me?.
Trapped in a moment of history. You changed the world and the day was yours. Laughing sun flashing from your smile. Your beach-bronzed body braced against the wind.
Rain falling like a symphony. On the roof top of my heart. There's a movement in the whispering deep. Before the new dream starts. I see your eyes shining like a neon light ..
Old pirates, yes, they rob I. Sold I to the merchant ships. Minutes after they took I. From the bottomless pit. But my hand was made strong. By the hand of the Almighty.