High Country Lyrics - Johnny Clegg & Savuka

There's a girl who lives in the high country 

Where the willows do not weep 

And the rain falls softly and gently 

And does not disturb her sleep 

There's a girl who lives in the high country 

Who lives on tea and dreams 

And I know that she does not love me 

But she plays the game so well 

"sit by my side and tell me boy 

Is the milky way that far? is the universe really expanding? 

Tell me who you are? " 

I am a bondsman - a poor man 

I am a ghettoman - I am a thief 

Who saw the gutterman who has no compassion 

Who heard the widow who cannot weep 

In the backstreets, in the poor towns 

I hear a thunder which cannot roll 

Mine are the eyes that steal from the orphanage 

A groveller, groping in the grime 

Inside is a congo-jungle-beast-lion-leopard-man 

A tiger-man from timbuktu 

Even a lover-man strutting down the avenue 

A winding river searching for the sea... 

And she said that she understood me 

She thought I was complex and sensitive 

"here" she said, "hold my hand, 

And have a muffin!" 

"do you see the clouds boy? 

Do you see the ship? 

Do you see the duck? 

Do you love me? " 

Brick by brick the empire is crumbling 

Stone by stone it cracks and folds 

Dreams of phantoms plotting in the jungle 

Vengeance in the elephant grass 

Someone's been at the liquor cabinet 

She's sure someone's been wearing her shoes 

All around her chaos and anarchy 

Light and reason overthrown 

"i'm sure" she says, "they will attack the embassy, 

Take me home, take me home!" 

There's a wind that blows through the high country 

Where the mansion used to stand 

And it blows through the broken down garden 

Where she once held my hand. 

La, la, la, la...