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Clegg Johnny
Heat Dust Dreams
When The System Has Fallen
Sweat in the heat for days on end
waiting for you to come again
to hear the words spill from your lips
the
system
has
fallen
Mass action on the radio
like a great river ebbs and flows
carrying us to the final close
when the system has fallen
I know that you are tired and weary
seen too much to believe any more
but we have to keep moving down that long road
if we want to reach that far shore.
Chorus:
We're on our way home to find our freedom
and I'm on my way home to find you my friend
where we can stand in the light of the people
and breathe life into the land again.
Siyathemba, siyathemba kuwena nkosi
Sizo fika ema khaya
[We are still hoping and we still believe
we wil reach our final destination]
Hey! You! if you dance in the shadows
the shadows will cover you
and paralyse all the hope in your eyes
that you'll need to bring you shining through
Could you believe that I am your brother?
could you believe that I am your friend?
and although I don't speak the language you speak
we could be closer than you have ever dreamt.
Chorus...
Ngizobeka phansi uku zondana kwami
[I will put down my hatred]
Ngizobeka phansi izenzo zegazi
[I will lay down my acts of revenge]
Ngizoxolelana nezitha zami wemadoda
[I will forgive my enemies]
Sizofika emakhaya
[and will reach our homes]
I'm on my way, on my way, on my way
to find you my friend.
- Album:
- Miscellaneous
- HEAT, DUST AND DREAMS
- Human
- Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
- Third World Child
- Rhythms Over Africa
- African Roots
- Spirit Is The Journey
- Spirit Is the Journey (The Very Best of)
- CELEBRATING 30 years of Johnny Clegg
- Club années: 80
- Les plus grands tubes love (Le meilleur des tubes love)
- Love (Le meilleur des hits des amoureux)
- Best, Live & Unplugged at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town
- Anthology
- The Sound of Africa
- The Sound of Magic: David Copperfield
- New World Survivor
- Career Opportunities
- A South African Story