Wo! Ilanga Lobunzima

Wo! Ilanga lobunzima

Nalo liyashona

Ukuthini asazi

Mus' ukukhala

Mntanami

(Oh! We don't know when this Sun of Hardship will set.

Don't cry, my child.)

Bits of songs and broken drums

Are all he could recall

But the future calls his name

Out loud

Carried on the violence of the guns

Berlin Wall

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 connect,

Don't reflect,

Just fetch your weekly pay

Oh sister don't you feel

What I know inside my bones

I'll meet you on the underground

And we'll make a call on the telephone

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