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higly armed the white police |
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are blowing away little knees |
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crushed bones and finger tips |
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are forming words on bleeding lips |
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blue eyes are watching them |
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blue eyes are killing them |
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but there's no hope when they pray |
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the lord seems to be miles away |
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we saw the spirit of johannesburg |
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filthy smoke covering the sun |
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a bullet left another gun |
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a nation screams in agony |
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in pure fear pure apathy |
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lord oh lord where have you gone |
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see what your children have done |
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but there's no hope when they pray |
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the lord seems to be miles away |
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and thought the days of fascism |
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and racism had gone |
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i'd never thought that there would |
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be things like oppression |
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humiliatiion and persecution |
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that a dump white male minority |
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could rule over a black majority |
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south africa you're only |
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the top of a lethal flood |
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south africa ruled by die hard fanatics |
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but still there's a mass of people |
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who are protesting, fighting |
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and demonstrating against a system |
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which degrades them to animals |
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but animals fight back when they're |
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in life danger also human beings fight back |
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so fight back in the name of freedom |
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fight back in the name of human rights |
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for a redemption, for a solution |
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hoist the flags of revolution! |
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my lord when will the white bastion fall! |