Lunatic Retard Robots
06-04-2004, 01:00
The LRR government has voted on three candidates for new national anthems. They have been chosen to reflect political, emotional, and social feeling in LRR, as well as the country's strong African heritage. (Africans are not a minority in LRR). They are:
Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World
By Johnny Clegg & Savuka
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
Trush those things that you can never see
Ayeye ayeye jesse mfana (jesse boy) ayeye ayeye
Chorus:
It’s a cruel crazy beautiful world
Every time you wake up I hope it’s under a blue sky
It’s a cruel crazy beautiful world
One day when you wake up I will have to say goodbye
Goodbye -- it’s your world so live in it!
Beyond the door, strange cruel beautiful years lie waiting for you
It kills me to know you won’t escape loneliness,
Maybe you lose hope too
Ayeye ayeye jesse mfana ayeye ayeye
Chorus
When I feel your small body close to mine
I feel weak and strong at the same time
So few years to give you wings to fly
Show you the stars to guide your ship by
Chorus
It’s your world so live in it
One Man, One Vote
By Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Bayeza abafana bancane wema
Bayeza abafana bancane wema
Baphethe iqwasha, baphethe ibazooka
Bathi "sangena savuma thina,
Lapha abazange bengena abazali bethu
Nabadala, bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina voti."
(the young boys are coming,
The young boys are coming.
They carry homemade weapons and a bazooka.
They say "we have agreed to enter a place
That has never been entered before
By our parents or our ancestors
And they cry for us, for we do not have the right to vote.)
Hayiyaah!
The west is sleeping in a fragile freedom
Forgotten is the price that was paid
Ten thousand years of marching through a veil of tears
To break a few links in these chains
These things come to us by way of much pain
Don’t let us slip back into the dark
On a visible but distant shore -- a new image of man
The shape of his own future, now in his own hands -- he says:
Chorus:
One ’man, one vote -- step into the future
One ’man, one vote -- in a unitary state
One ’man, one vote -- tell them when you see them
One ’man, one vote -- it’s the only way
Bayeza abafana abancane
(the young boys are coming)
Hayiyaah!
In the east a giant is awakening
And in the south we feel the rising tide
The soul inside the spark that gives breath to your life
Can no longer be made to hide
These things come to us by way of much pain
Don’t let us slip back into the dark
On a visible but distant shore -- a new image of man
The shape of his own future, now in his own hands -- he says:
Chorus
Dela
By Johnny Clegg & Savuka
One day I looked up and there you stood
Like a simple question looking for an answer
Now I am a whale listening to some inner call
Swimming blindly to throw myself upon your shores
But what if I don’t find when I have landed
Would you leave me here to die on your shores stranded?
I think I know why the dog howls at the moon.
I think I know why the dog howls at the moon.
I say:
"dela! dela! ngiyadela!
(content, content I am content)
When I am with you!
Dela! sondela mama!
(closer, closer, come closer mama)
I burn for you!
Chorus:
I’ve been waiting for you all my life -- waiting for a miracle
I’ve been waiting day and night -- waiting for redemption
I burn for you
A blind bird sings inside the cage that is my heart
And the image of your face comes to me when I’m alone in the dark
If I could give a shape to this ache that I have for you
If I could find the voice that says the words that capture you
I think I know, I think I know
I think I know why the dog howls at the moon.
I say:
"dela! dela! ngiyadela!
(content, content I am content)
When I am with you!
Dela! sondela mama!
(closer, closer, come closer mama)
I burn for you!
Chorus
Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World
By Johnny Clegg & Savuka
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
Trush those things that you can never see
Ayeye ayeye jesse mfana (jesse boy) ayeye ayeye
Chorus:
It’s a cruel crazy beautiful world
Every time you wake up I hope it’s under a blue sky
It’s a cruel crazy beautiful world
One day when you wake up I will have to say goodbye
Goodbye -- it’s your world so live in it!
Beyond the door, strange cruel beautiful years lie waiting for you
It kills me to know you won’t escape loneliness,
Maybe you lose hope too
Ayeye ayeye jesse mfana ayeye ayeye
Chorus
When I feel your small body close to mine
I feel weak and strong at the same time
So few years to give you wings to fly
Show you the stars to guide your ship by
Chorus
It’s your world so live in it
One Man, One Vote
By Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Bayeza abafana bancane wema
Bayeza abafana bancane wema
Baphethe iqwasha, baphethe ibazooka
Bathi "sangena savuma thina,
Lapha abazange bengena abazali bethu
Nabadala, bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina voti."
(the young boys are coming,
The young boys are coming.
They carry homemade weapons and a bazooka.
They say "we have agreed to enter a place
That has never been entered before
By our parents or our ancestors
And they cry for us, for we do not have the right to vote.)
Hayiyaah!
The west is sleeping in a fragile freedom
Forgotten is the price that was paid
Ten thousand years of marching through a veil of tears
To break a few links in these chains
These things come to us by way of much pain
Don’t let us slip back into the dark
On a visible but distant shore -- a new image of man
The shape of his own future, now in his own hands -- he says:
Chorus:
One ’man, one vote -- step into the future
One ’man, one vote -- in a unitary state
One ’man, one vote -- tell them when you see them
One ’man, one vote -- it’s the only way
Bayeza abafana abancane
(the young boys are coming)
Hayiyaah!
In the east a giant is awakening
And in the south we feel the rising tide
The soul inside the spark that gives breath to your life
Can no longer be made to hide
These things come to us by way of much pain
Don’t let us slip back into the dark
On a visible but distant shore -- a new image of man
The shape of his own future, now in his own hands -- he says:
Chorus
Dela
By Johnny Clegg & Savuka
One day I looked up and there you stood
Like a simple question looking for an answer
Now I am a whale listening to some inner call
Swimming blindly to throw myself upon your shores
But what if I don’t find when I have landed
Would you leave me here to die on your shores stranded?
I think I know why the dog howls at the moon.
I think I know why the dog howls at the moon.
I say:
"dela! dela! ngiyadela!
(content, content I am content)
When I am with you!
Dela! sondela mama!
(closer, closer, come closer mama)
I burn for you!
Chorus:
I’ve been waiting for you all my life -- waiting for a miracle
I’ve been waiting day and night -- waiting for redemption
I burn for you
A blind bird sings inside the cage that is my heart
And the image of your face comes to me when I’m alone in the dark
If I could give a shape to this ache that I have for you
If I could find the voice that says the words that capture you
I think I know, I think I know
I think I know why the dog howls at the moon.
I say:
"dela! dela! ngiyadela!
(content, content I am content)
When I am with you!
Dela! sondela mama!
(closer, closer, come closer mama)
I burn for you!
Chorus