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When you touch me it’s like heaven
And I just want to be with you
Something special to believe in
And I know that you can feel it too
You can dream it
You can be it
Just believe it (woa-o-oh/let’s go)
Bang the drum (mbube horns, sisonke ndawonke)
Bang the drum (sishaya isighubi), (black parade)
Tell the world, tell the people
That it’s all about this little thing called love
Coast to coast, can you feel it
Tell the sun, the moon, the stars the sky above
It’s our moment
It’s out madness
It’s our heartbreak
It’s our gladness
You can dream it
You can be it
Just believe it, so let’s go
Bang the drum (sisonke ndawonke)
Bang the drum (sishaya isighubi)
Clap your hands, stamp your feet, bang the drum, feel the beat
Hey Brother, Hey Sister, You can be my guest
Hey Baby, Hey Mister, you are the best
Kurudi, Nyumbani
Nathulisa Umoyo
The day you left I was a stranger to you
The air was still the sky was grey
A pale moon led you through a starless night
A quiet sea took you away
Now time is not enough to do the healing
And words are not enough to heal your pain
But together maybe we can find a different space
A secret place where all our memories remain
So lay down your heart for me
Be strong and set me free
Walk away but still remain
Change it all but stay the same
And don’t forget a world within is a world apart
So lay down your heart
In dreams you’ll walk along a different path
The morning air will taste so sweet
You’ll lift your face towards blue African skies
You’ll feel her earth beneath your feet
As evening falls you’ll reach a different place
Where a warm December wind whispers your name
And as you look out from the shores of Bagamoyo
A million stars will know you came
Because like you they’ve come home again
So lay down your heart for me
Be strong and set me free
Walk away but still remain
Change it all but stay the same
And don’t forget a world within is a world apart
So lay down your heart
Kurudi, Nyumbani
Nathulisa Umoyo
A love song set in South Africa, under our beautiful southern sky.
I want to be with you under a Southern Sky
Feel the earth move as I see you walking by
I want to take you to the moon and back tonight
Sleep with angels in the shelter of a perfect Southern Sky
In the stillness and forgiveness of a perfect Southern Sky
It’s in the rise and fall of a kiss
It’s in the secret call of a wish
It’s in the way you look at me
And the things we never see
It’s in the midnight beat of a train
It’s in the sweet and warm summer raining down on us
Like angels in a perfect Southern Sky
You and I/me like falling angels in a perfect Southern Sky
I want to hold you like I’ll never let you go
And feel you touch me in a way I’ve never known
I want to whisper that you feel like coming home
Like a sweet familiar stranger and a perfect Southern Sky
We will be like falling angels in a perfect Southern Sky
My love, my life, my own
A place I call my home…
I want to be with you under a Southern Sky
Feel the earth move as I see you walking by
I want to take you to the moon and back tonight
Sleep with angels in the shelter of a perfect Southern Sky
In the stillness and forgiveness of a perfect Southern Sky
A classic SA hit, written in the ‘50’s by the late, great ‘Big Mickey’ Vilikazi, a member of Mango Groove in the ‘80’s.Mango Groove added the lyrics and they recall a the band being stopped at a roadblock during a State of Emergency: the ‘military man’ concerned could not comprehend what we were doing together.
I remember moments
No sentiment or mystery
Incidents in your life
Like pages from our history
There’s a roadblock late at night
And a military man
Can see that we’re together
But he doesn’t understand
Your love burns me like a Hellfire
There’s a song called Hellfire
That everybody plays
Striking chords of memory
In so many different ways
Written in 1993 as a response to the massacre at Boipatong, and to the assassination of Chris Hani.
If we could reach beyond the bounds of blame
And make history blind
And peel away the easy balm of words
This is all we’d find:
A mother’s cries, fear in an old man’s eyes,
A child’s blood on the walls
No easy price to pay, no harder way to fall
Another time, another place
Another country, another state of grace
You’ll walk beside me, I’ll tell you no lies
And then you’ll see another country in my eyes
There is a place for anger, things we won’t forgive
And I know it’s not enough to face your shame with words you’ll never live
But let’s begin to look within, to where the future lies
And find the strength to live beneath another country’s skies
Another time, another place
Another country, another state of grace
You’ll walk beside me, I’ll tell you no lies
And then you’ll see another country in my eyes
A song about being away from Africa and missing Africa, but knowing that it will always be the closest place to your heart.
Soft night falls to silence
A cape of stars, an ocean moon
A memory forever in a moment
Always with me but gone too soon
Africa blue, now and forever
Something so beautiful something so true
I close my eyes and see your skies
In dreams of you, Africa blue
In time I’ll walk towards the silence
They’ll lay me down where the wind whispers my name
With December rains to bless me, and your warm sun to caress me
Africa Blue beneath your skies I’m home again
Africa blue, now and forever
Something so beautiful something so true
I close my eyes and see your skies
In dreams of you, Africa blue
Jamila Jadida, Jamila Starehe, Jamila Walela, Jamila Waleh
This is a song about missing home. It was written at a time when many political exiles were starting to return to South Africa.
Above is the summer moon
Children will be sleeping soon
The work is all done and so
We sleep by the fire’s glow
The cattle bells do not ring
The night birds begin to sing
The stories have all been told, so we’ll dream
Hometalk, takes me home, hometalk
The moon meets the breaking day
The dreams have all gone away
Though the memories tear me apart
They will always be here in my heart
Hometalk, takes me home, hometalk
Kaya, takes me home, hometalk
‘Taken for a Moment’ was written as a direct response to the assassination of Anti Apartheid activist David Webster, who was gunned down outside his Troyeville, Johannesburg home by Ferdi Barnard of the CCB. The song is dedicated to his memory.
Rising through the silence
Pushing back the folds of the dark
Narrowing the distance
Smiling on a moment apart
Dreams cannot be broken though a beating heart is still
Because dreams live longer than a dreamer ever will
Taken for a moment, taken for a moment
Higher than the silence
Shining through the folds of the dark
There won’t be a distance
There can’t be a moment apart
Words will not be spoken though a beating heart is still
But dreams live longer than a dreamer ever will
Taken for a moment, taken for a moment |
mango groove 
