African Litany Lyrics

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 Through a hur...Read Full Lyrics

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 In a land far from you I c...Read Full Lyrics

All the young and brave Will turn to face the empty days To dream tomorrow Into shape And those that fall will pray That some will fight on through the dark Not give in and hold th...Read Full Lyrics

Baba, ngizwe isimanga, mina Ngizwe isimanga Baba, ngizwe isimanga, mina Ngizwe isimanga Isoka ladlala ngentombi, isoka (repeat) Isoka alikhiphanga inkomo, isoka (repeat) "i am bull...Read Full Lyrics

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 You'll see another day Don't conne...Read Full Lyrics

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 Of people in death machines. And h...Read Full Lyrics

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 I know one day I ...Read Full Lyrics

Umoya wami onakele kunsela elangena Lapha enhlizweni yami (X2) (My spirits are down, a thief has entered my heart) Laqegeza lathatha uthando lwami lonke, Ngasala ngingenalutho (The...Read Full Lyrics

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, Trust those things that you can never s...Read Full Lyrics

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 O...Read Full Lyrics