Nothing Like Velvet Lyrics

Old Afrikaaner farmer on the terrace of his home Sits gently in his rocking chair, gazing at this land He owns. There he sees his memories and there his past There he smiles his gr...Read Full Lyrics

Don't walk, don't walk it says but he can't ride Not while his only living relative's inside Who couldn't pay his way and couldn't pay his fines His spirit stretched like gum betwe...Read Full Lyrics

I'm hearing only bad news from Radio Africa, I'rn hearing only sad news from Radio Africa They've still got trouble with a monster in the South Heads buried deep in that lion's mo...Read Full Lyrics

In the house of the almighty lord They all shall come, the great and small They have-nots, and the have-it shall enter. A body from a foreign war Is draped in flag, the bugle calls...Read Full Lyrics

I'll just have one to cut the dust", the nameless Stranger said "But don't you work my tongue loose - need to keep it In my head I need my head on my shoulders, I'm the last one on...Read Full Lyrics

We start so small, there's so much to us Who builds the walls we can never rise above? I can tear them for you Tear them down, but I'm not going to drown for you Chorus: Someone r...Read Full Lyrics

They're growing pines now in cotton soil Still making boxes for the sons of toil Still bend your back to pick you food stamps up Black coffee still comes in a tall white cup They t...Read Full Lyrics

She slapped her teacher in the face She was radical that way So they called her 'Poison Grace' But she chased the name away And she left here for the silk road The route set out, o...Read Full Lyrics

Album, tour, albumen - you're still picking at the Shell And you know you should be glad of the living But it seems like a living hell sometimes And on this playing stage you play ...Read Full Lyrics

It's a life-time from the leather stalls The Berbers and bazaars Down through every measured movement In the making of the cars. And it doesn't pay much And it doesn't leave scars ...Read Full Lyrics