Jericho Lyrics - Johnny Clegg & Savuka

You are a dreamer of dreams walking a lonely shore 

Dream if you will but remember there are iron laws 

However much you seek to solve this mystery 

No one ignores the iron vice of history 

All those gone before dreamed to escape 

They tried to fly over the palisades 

Standing at the gates 

This is Jericho 

And the walls reach up to the stars 

And outside we were singing psalms 

Such a strange, strange place 

For we are the prisoners 

Of the prisoners we have taken 

And the prophets' dreams are now forsaken 

Sing me the songs of a world that I once knew 

Recall the legends once so proud and true 

My people used to live here not so long ago 

But they fled into the night and I was left alone 

I guard these walls for you and me 

Dream on, sail on my memory 

Standing at the gates 

This is Jericho 

And the walls reach up to the stars 

And outside we were singing psalms 

Such a strange, strange place 

For we are the prisoners 

Of the prisoners we have taken 

And the prophets' dreams are now forsaken