Heat, Dust & Dreams

Yashimbawula! (the watchman's fire is burning)



What happened to the diamonds in your eyes,

What happened to the hunger for the day's chase?

What happened to the electric smile

That danced across your face

We used to talk about changing the world

Now all you want to do is change your name

Come on baby don't surrender now

to the empty heart of these days.

We used to talk so deep into the night

You had the heart of a wild horse running

You bared your soul to me

and we both knew these days were coming



Chorus:

These days -- blood in the heavens

These days -- fire and ice

These days -- burning streets and visions

These days -- of the loveless child



Yashimbawula!



You were the reason I came here

You will always be the one I am looking for

I can't stand to see the way

these days are pushing you against the wall

Got to get up, got to move out

Face the tide beyond the door

Outside there's a whole world changing

We can't stand here, trapped inside

Let's step out and test the weazther

Hang on baby, it's going to ge a rough ride thru'



Chorus



These days -- searching for a vision

These days -- gun metal blue

These days -- changing my religion

These days -- heartless and cruel



say the words and fill my sails

I will love you through the coming gale

we'll get through the darkest heart of these days



"It's killing time"

Who will watch the watchers?

Who will keep the keepers?

Who will love the lovers -- could you?



Chorus....

Through all the days that eat away

at every breath that I take

through all the nights I've lain alone

in someone else's dream, awake

all the words in truth we have spoken

that the wind has blown away

it's only you that remains with me

clear as the light of day



Chorus: O Siyeza, o siyeza , sizofika webaba noma

(we are coming, we are coming, we will arrive soon)

O siyeza, o siyeza, siyagudle lomhlaba

(we are coming, we are coming, we are moving across this earth)

Siyawela lapheshaya lulezontaba ezimnyama

(we are crossing over those dark mountains)

Lapha sobheka phansi konke ukhulupheka

(where we will lay down our troubles)



A punch drunk man in a downtown bar

takes a beating without making a sound

through swollen eyes he sways and smiles

'cause noone can put him down

inside of him a boy looks up to his father

for a sign or an approving eye

oh, it's funny how those once so close and now gone

can still so affect our lives



Chorus



Take me now, hold me close

don't let go, I'm coming home



Chorus

Shooting star across my sky

I wanted to keep you in my heaven

"I will be anything you want!" I said

"I will live into your dream just to see you smile"

"Be my baby -- I'll be your crusade

your clown-lover, renegade

I'll be anything you want if it will make you stay"

-- oh but it could never be that way cause:



Chorus:

I can never be what you want

I can never be what you want me to be



The great pretender inside your head

a king wearing someone else's crown

sacrificed who I am so that this heart could be fed

I spend so much time keeping myself underground

You know I love you but I am shaking inside

I know I'm not going to leave here alive 'cause:



Chorus:

I can never be what you want

I can never be what you want me to be

I have sailed this impossible ocean

I have sailed this crazy sea

I can never be what you want,

whatever you want me to be



There is a spirit rising against what I have become

I have to come out and choose to stay our make my run

I'm slowly dying, I have to make a stand

I'm coming home, you'll have to take me for what I am





Chorus



Be? I can never be!

I can never be what you want!

I can never be what you want me to be!

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.

LOMHLABA UNZIMA, LOMHLABA

[this world is a harsh place, this world]



Picture the end of a cycle

here's the fire from heaven

There's a tired planeet closing down

no more news at eleven

somewhere the last of a species has died

somewhere a child is born

when I hold you, I tremble inside

can we ride out the storm?

Are you tough enough -- can you take the strain?

Are you tough enough -- to walk in the burning rain

Are you tough enough -- can you take the change?

Are you tough enough -- baby just say!



Chorus:

Into the heart of the human dream

into a strange new world

remember me under the Tree of Man

where I first heard your words

gonna make it through, I can feel it



What we need is a miracle

what we need is some time

what we need is an angel of Mercy

in this life



Are you tough enough -- can you take the heat?

Are you tough enough -- to walk in the burning street

Are you tough enough -- can you take the change

Are you tough enough -- baby just say!



Chorus...



There's your mama and your papa

waving good-bye in the cold moonlight

in their eyes the confusion of a world gone by

and you hold me tightly as we step out

into the morning light

and I know you are thinking that for something to be born

somthing has to die.



Chorus...



Vele vele we mama kunjalo

[It is true, it's obvious. Mama, it is just as you say].

Electric chair didn't burn a hair

and the newspaperman asked why

and while the warden explain in great detail

the newsman looked in the sky

"I'm sure!", he said, "if you look a little deeper

for something in his life

we could understand the reason why

he reached out for a knife."



Oooh! What happened to the promise?

Oooh! what happened to the one we knew?



So, onto a a train the newspaperman rode

down to the southern lands

to find out about a child long gone

turned into a lightning man.



Chorus:

Oooh! what happened to the promise?

Oooh! what happened to the one we knew?

Oooh! what happened to the promise?

Oooh! what happened to the heart so true.





"Some of them make it through", she said

"some of them never do, and one of them

got lost in time -- that child of mine

Oh, I loved that child of mine!"



Arriving in a country town

with a notepad in his hand

he spoke to the mother and the father

and a friend and a teacher and a preacher man

They all recalled a regular boy chewing gim

and playing in the sand

nothing could explain how he became

a lonely lightning man

And when the coffin came

on the southbound train

and the old folks shuffled by

the one they came to bury

was not very heavy, just a child lost in time



Chorus



What happens to the clear blue eye

when it enters the forest?

does anybody know where the little one goes?

what happens to the child in time?



-- some of them make it through

-- some of them never do

-- some of them are lost and saved

-- some of them find their way

oooh -- hold on to the promise

we're going to make it through my baby

we're going to make it through my little darling

Chopper standing in the clearing, fuelled and ready to ride

Captain in the doorway, telling us to step inside

last minute check, all weapons set

parachute and right sight

going to drop in on the jungle

and grease some stone age tribe

The 'sarge jokes about taking out the last link

to his troubled past

as we hit the canopy. I feel a shadow across my heart



Chorus:

Inevitable Consequence of Progress --

is what he said to me

inevitable Consequence of Progress --

in the judgement of history

inevitable Consequence of Progress --

going to change your destiny

And I felt the sun, sun, sun, the Son, Son, Son

going down on me



The pilot pulled the chopper around

and we got into position

we made all the right moves and

there wasn't any real opposition

Crazy tribesmen shooting arrows at the 'ship overhead

Such a wierd spectacle

the 'sarge he smiled and he said

"There's a new world coming and

there ain't no place for them--

Don't feel sad son for what history has condemned."



Inevitable Consequence of Progress --

is what he said to me

inevitable Consequence of Progress --

in the judgement of history

inevitable Consequence of Progress --

going to change your destiny

And I felt the sun, sun, sun, the Son, Son, Son

had gone down on me



Bridge:

I've been waiting for the clouds to clear

I've been waiting for the dawn

I've been waiting for the fear to subside

and for the sun to make me warm again



"Live and let live" -- step into real life,

step into the lifeline boy

Something broke the place where the rain is born

something stole the promise from the light of dawn

people, people were everywhere struggling to get their share

honest cruelty in the eyes of the innocent

squeezing one more harvest from this tired earth

they call to you, but the wind just blows away their words

didn't believe in miracles, didn't believe you'd come

didn't see any reason to carry on



Chorus:

But in my African Dream, you touched my face

raised up my children and gave them grace

in my African Dream you wiped away my tears

and whispered the promise of a thousand years



Children with eyes like souls ready to fly

looking at me -- for some kind of sacred sign

who will teach the young, the names of the ancient ones

who will tell them from whence they come

I have no answer, don't even have a prayer

All I can do is close my eyes and hope that you will be thre



In my African Dream you blessed the rain

let me stand proud, eased the pain,

you raised me up,

gave me love, filled my cup.



Old man sits in the shade of the thorn treee

he says "these thorns are all that are true

life is suffering, suffering is life,

be happy with the small things that come to you

They will come to you, come to you."



Chorus

I don't want to be a tourist in your heart

I don't want to visit someone else's ruins

Don't want a day trip to the feelings in the dark

Don't want a quick-fix honeymoon



Bridge:

We need: emotional allegiance, devotional love

a living promise like in the story of RAM



Chorus:

Raghupati raghava raja Ram

Patite pavana Sita Ram

Stand be me -- feel the sun

Emotional allegiance -- divine love



There's a change in the weather

and a hole in the sky

snow in the summer

and the rivers run dry

who will guard your fragile dreams of rain

when your heart is tired of daytrippers

and nobody stays....



Bridge:

We need: emotional allegiance, devotional love

a living promise like in the story of RAM



Chorus...

I'm a working alien in a land of heat and stone

a casulaty of an economic war

that took me away from home.

It's the politics of money and power

It's the hope that we can build a future in world

getting smaller everywhere



Bridge:

I can hear a siren in the workyard

another shift and I'll be closer to you

I'm a working dog in Babylon and only

your love can get me through



Chorus:

Foreign nights -- took you away from me

Foreign nights -- are not where I belong

Foreign nights -- filled with dust and dreams

Foreign nights -- trapped me in Babylon



As long as I keep moving

I know I will be all right

cause if I stop to think I'll drown and sink

in the sea of foreign nights

I've got to keep my hands busy

got to keep pushing through

got to learn to deal with this time away from you



Bridge:

I can hear a siren in the workyard

another shift and I'll be closer to you

I'm a working dog in Babylon and only

your love can get me through



Chorus....



Quiet moments in the dark are hardest to face

the sun goes down but not the pain

I want to be with you all the time

I want to be with you, to be with you all my life

I'm going to have to get through... foreign nights.

WAQAMB' AMANGA MUS' UKUQAMB' AMANGA

[you were lying, do not tell lies]

WANGI QAMBELA AMANGA UFUNA UKUNGILAHLISA

ITHEMBA LAMI WEMAME!

[You told lies, trying to mislead me,

so that I would give up my faith and hope.]

WASHO NJALO! WATHI IKUSASA LETHU

SELIMNYAMA HAWU WASI QAMBELA AMANGA

[that is what you said -- you said that our future is hopeless,

our tomorrow is bleak, you were lying,

trying to mislead us]

NGEKE SIVUMA -- NGEKE SILAHLA ITEMBA

[No can do! we will never relinquish our faith]





Chorus:

KUZULONGA UKUTHI NINI? ASAZI!

[Everything will be all right --

It's just when this will be, we cannot know]

KUZOLONGA WENA 'MNGANE WAMI

[Everything will come right, I tell you friend]]

MASUKU LAHLA ITHEMBA LAKHO

[Do not throw away your hope]

MINA NGAPHA WENA NGAPHA SIZOYI BAMBA

[Me holding on one side, you holding on the other side

together we will pull through]

THINA NAWE, THINA NAWE

[you and me, you and me]



UMOYA WAMI ONAKELE

[my spirits are down]

WENA WEMTAKA ANTIE HAWU WANGI SHAYISA UVALO

[I say to you child of my aunt, you have caused me great fear]

WASHO NJALO! WATHI IKUSASA LETHU

SELIMNYAMA HAWU WASI QAMBELA AMANGA

[You told lies, trying to mislead me,

so that I would give up my faith and hope.]

WASHO NJALO! WATHI IKUSASA LETHU

SELIMNYAMA HAWU WASI QAMBELA AMANGA

[that is what you said -- you said that our future is hopeless,

our tomorrow is bleak, you were lying,

trying to mislead us]

NGEKE SIVUMA -- NGEKE SILAHLA ITEMBA

[No can do! we will never relinquish our faith]



Chorus:

KUZULONGA UKUTHI NINI? ASAZI!

[Everything will be all right --

It's just when this will be, we cannot know]

KUZOLONGA WENA 'MNGANE WAMI

[Everything will come right, I tell you friend]



KUZOLONGA 'MNGANE WAMI NGIYAKUTSHELA

[It will be all right my friend, I'm telling you]

WOZA WESIBINDI! UYAPHILISA UYABULALA

[come true courage, for it is you who gives

life and takes it away

MINA NGAPHA -- WENA NGAPHA SIZOYIBAMBA

[me on this side, you on the other,

we will hold it together]

UNGALALLELI LAW' AMANGA 'MNGANE WAMI

[don't listen to the lies of my compatriot]

OH SIZOBAHLULA THINA NAWA

[we will be victorious in the end, just you and me]

OH THINA NAMA

[just you and me]



I saw the Berlin Wall fall

I saw Mandela walk free

I saw a dream whose time has come

Change my history -- so keep on dreaming



Deam on dreamer, dreamer



In the best of times and in the worst of times

gotta keep looking at the skyline

not at a hole in the road

Your time will come, sister, your time will come

nobody's gonna rush history, we have to ease it along

-- just ease it along