White city

Give blood

But you may find that blood is enough

Give blood

And there are some who'll say it's not enough

Give blood

But don't expect too ever see reward

Give blood

You can give it all but still asked for more



Give blood

But it could cost more than your dignity

Give blood

Parade your pallor in iniquity

Give blood

They will cry and say they're in our debt

Give blood

But then they'll sigh and they will soon forget



[man in background]

(where heading for the day of reckoning I'm telling ya,

Its all building up to something,

Something that can be repeated with fire)





So give love and keep blood between brothers

give love and keep blood between brothers

give love and keep blood between brothers

give love and keep blood between brothers



Give blood

But you may find that blood is not enough

Give blood

And there are some who'll say it's not enough

Give blood

But don't expect too ever see reward

Give blood

You can give it all but still asked for more



So give love and keep blood between brothers

give love and keep blood between brothers

give love and keep blood between brothers

give love and keep blood between brothers



Give your love and keep blood between brothers

Give your love and keep blood between brothers

give love and keep blood between brothers

give love and keep blood between brothers

give love and keep blood between brothers

Say goodbye to the brilliant blues

Say goodbye to the brilliant blues

Say goodbye....



It's time, to live

So make me, take me

It's time, to give

So don't betray me, pay me



The brilliant blues

Don't want to be frozen

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine cafe

I've read the news and the clique-ridden notions

I know that now is the time to stay



It's time, say goodbye to the brilliant blues

To teach, say goodbye to the brilliant blues

So tell me, say goodbye to the brilliant blues

Come on tell me, say goodbye to the brilliant blues

It's time,say goodbye to the brilliant blues

To preach, say goodbye to the brilliant blues

So help me,say goodbye to the brilliant blues

Come on and help me,say goodbye to the brilliant blues



The brilliant blues

Will never flow this way again

The color of the river is gray

The brilliant blues

Have faded into sadness and pain

and now is the time to say...It's time



You and me are going to finally sail away

We'll get far away from the blues and the mist in the rain

You and me are going to fight until we win the day

For now is the time that we must say goodbye

To the brilliant blues.



The brilliant blues

I Don't want to be frozen

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine cafe

I've read the news and the clique-ridden notions

I know that now is the time to stay.



It's time,say goodbye to the brilliant blues

To trust,say goodbye to the brilliant blues

So buy me,say goodbye to the brilliant blues

Come on and try me,say goodbye to the brilliant blues

It's time,say goodbye to the brilliant blues

To thrust,say goodbye to the brilliant blues

So guide me,say goodbye to the brilliant blues

Stay beside me,say goodbye to the brilliant blues



The brilliant blues

Will never flow this way again

The color of the river is gray

The brilliant blues

Have faded into sadness and pain

And now is the time to say...It's time

Face the face, got to face the face

Face the face, got to face the face



You must have heard the cautionary tales

The dangers hidden on the cul-de-sac trails

From wiser men who've been through it all

And the ghosts of failures spray-canned up on the wall



We've got to judge the judge

Got to find the finds

We've got to scheme the schemes

Have to line the lines

We must stake the stakes

And show the shown

We must take the takes

And know the known

Try to place the place

Where we can face the face.

We got to face the face

Try to place the place

Where we can face the face

Face the face,got to face the face.

Face the face,got to face the face.



Got to

Got to



You must have tried and defied belief

Maybe found futility in insular grief

I need your hunger you need mine

A million appetites can swallow up time.



We've got to fool the fools

We got to plan the plans

We got to rule the rules

We got to stand the stands

We got to fight the fight

We must fall the falls

We got to light the light

We got to call the calls

We must race the race

So we can face the face

We got to race the race

We must race the race

So we can face the face

Face the face

We got to face the face

We got to race the race

We got to



Keep looking.....



New York! Chicago!

London and Glasgow!

Keep looking!



Keep on looking

Keep on cooking

Got to stay on this case

Study the pix

Watch the flix

We've got to find the face.

Face the face ,got to face the face

Watch the flix

Got to



We've got to judge the judge

We got to find the finds

We've got to scheme the schemes

We got to line the lines

We got to fight the fight

We got to fall the falls

We got to light the light

We got to call the calls

Try to place the place

Where we can face the face.

We got to face the face.....

Try to place the place

Where we can face the face.

Try to place the place

Where we can face the face.

Keep looking, keep looking

We must race the race

So we can face the face.

We got to race the race

We must race the race.

So we can face the face

We got to face the face

We got to race the race

From my window I see roads

Lead to darkness, leading home

In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping

Hear the waterfall of women weeping

Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling

Hear the prostituted children calling





From the barred and mesh- floor streets

Of a winter's night,without a moon

I am safe-hidden here.

I am safe-hidden here

Hiding out



I look over the chequerd fields

And the towering web of steel

Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling

While the empty church's bell are pealing

And the green hills lay ignored, untended

Lonely watchers remain unbefriended



And out in the one way streets

Is a swelling maze,without a door

I am safe-hidden here

I am safe-hidden here

Hiding out

Don't bring me secondhand love

Don't bring me secondhand love



I know you went out tonight

Who've you been hanging around with this time?

I don't care if he's black or white

I just don't like his kind.

I don't want your secondhand love

I don't want your secondhand love

I don't want your secondhand love

Don't bring me secondhand love



He's been leaving his scent on you

I can sense it from a mile

All my money is spent on you

But you're still selling your smile

Don't bring me secondhand love

Don't bring me secondhand love

I don't want your secondhand love

I don't want your secondhand love



Give your love, and keep blood between brothers

Give your love, and keep blood between brothers

I don't want your secondhand love



I can guess where you've been tonight

You've been hanging out on the street

Wearing your dress too tight

You're showin' out to anyone you meet

But I don't want your secondhand love

I don't want your secondhand love

Don't bring me your secondhand love

Don't bring me your secondhand love



I want the first call on your kiss

Answer me one question:can you promise me this

I want my defences laying in your hands

I don't want to rest in the palm of another man

I don't want your secondhand love

Don't want, Don't want, your secondhand love

I don't want, I don't want, your secondhand love

I don't want,I don't want your secondhand love

I don't want,I don't want your secondhand love

Nothing must pass this line

Unless it is well defined

You just have to be resigned

You're crashing by design



You once believed that crazy accidents

were happening to you

You were chasing a capricious wind

Whenever bad luck and trouble

happened to pursue you

The dice would surely save your skin

But when you look back you must realize

That nothing in your life's divine

Everything that's ever befallen you

Happened simply 'cause it crossed your mind

You're crashing by design



Nothing must pass this line

Unless it is well defined

You just have to be resigned

You're crashing by design





In your single-roomed flat in a courtyard building

You sit alone just like a broken toy

Where's your mother, where's your lover

and where are the children

Are you a man or still a boy?

Who left you behind, or did you run

From the crush of so many options?

Now you know the special despair of the man

Discussed, debated and offered for adoption



Nothing must pass this line

Unless it is well defined

You just have to be resigned





Another man without a woman

Dropped like a tool no longer required

A man who longs for the stifling

Milk flowered bosom, a fool

who's no longer desired



Another man without a woman

Too many rages have cost you this time

Another man among a hundred children

You're just a child who is lost in time



You're crashing by design

You're crashing by design

I't all happens by design

I't all happens by design

You're crashing by design



I't all happens by design

I't all happens by design

You're crashing by design

My room looks out to the wide open spaces

My heart is touched by awakening faces

I see the panic of people in motion

I can stand here, look out on an ocean.

I am a wall awaiting a catchword.

I see the city laid out like a patchwork.

Alone I am free from hatred and blindness

I hope that this life is frozen and timeless.

My man is here, we grow old by inches.

Tomorrow I'll walk among heroes and princes.

I feed the boys, I hear secrets whispered.

I know the hearts that are battered and blistered.

I am secure

In this world of apartheid.

This is my cell, but it's connected to star - light.

The White City, that's a joke of a name

It's a black violent place if I remember the game

I couldn't wait to get out but I love to go home

To remember the White City fighting



The White City Fighting, remember, remember

The White City Fighting, remember, remember



Down to the refuge, near QPR

I drive to committees in my German car

Prone to violence, prone to shame

I glide in silence, my pride in vain

For no one remembers, not that I can see

That we were defenders, we were the free



The White City, blood was an addiction

Now it is analyzed just as though it were fiction

That battles were won and battles were blown

At the height of the White City fighting



The White City Fighting, remember, remember

The White City Fighting, remember, remember



No one remembers, not that I can see

That we were defenders, we were the free



The White City, I finally grew up

To resist the temptation the gutters all threw up

But I have to go back, I guess I'm violence prone

To remember the White City fighting, yeah



The White City Fighting, remember, remember......(fade)

Pride is like a bandage

He is wrapped in a warm cocoon

His pride is like Heroin

He is back inside the womb

His pride is like an Ocean

Encircled by a reef

His pride's an hypnotic potion

His memory is a leaf



Her pride is like an armour

Flaming ring of fire

Her pride is like a blindness

An ever tightening wire

Her pride is like a razor

A Surgeon's purging knife

Her pride is like a censor

She's slashed out half her life