Crocodile love

'Sishimane gijima ushon' ezinyangeni

Uyamazi nkunzi emnyama? (X2)

(Hey! unsuccessful lover man, you had better hurry to a magician,

Do you know one called "the Black Bull"?)

Igama lami nkunzi emnyama

(My name is Black Bull)

Yimi nkunzi emnyama

(I am Black Bull)

Ngicitha amasoka

(I can magically defeat your rivals in love)

'Sishimane gijima ushon' ezinyangeni

Kuyo tatazela amasoka

(Hey! unsuccessful lover man, hurry to a magician,

and he will cause all your rivals to become insecure)

Isoka latatazela

(The amorous young buck is nervous because....)

Intombi ifuna ukwendlala

(The young girl wants to stay the night)

Itshitshi limnandi, itshitshi limnandi njengoshukela

(A virgin is sweet, a virgin is sugar sweet)

'Sishimane gijima ushon' ezinyangeni

(Hey unsuccessful lover man....)

Azokwehlula amasoka

(your amorous rivals will coax away your girl)

Wo! dem buladi fhulu, nkunzi emnyama

Wehlula amasoka, shona kunkunzi emnyama

can overcome your rivals in love, go and see him!)

Igama lami nkunzi emnyama

(My name is Black Bull)

Inkunzi ecitha amasoka

(The bull that causes young men to lose their girlfriends)

Ngidida amasoka

(I am the one who with magic can upset the plans of amorous young men)

Chorus

Umoya wami onakele kunsela elangena

Lapha enhlizweni yami (X2)

(My spirits are down, a thief has entered my heart)

Laqegeza lathatha uthando lwami lonke,

ngasala ngingenalutho

(The thief has broken into my heart and taken all my love,

and I remain totally empty, I remain with nothing)

I remember the summer but not the rain,

A memory of fire but not the pain

There's a vision in my head of a gun on the bed

A message in your eyes which your lips never said:

I want your crocodile love.

I'm on the runway and I'm ready to fly

I know I'm going to find you under the sky

Oooh yea, it's a mighty fine day

Oooh yea, you are coming my way....

With your crocodile love.

I want your crocodile love.

Umoya wami onakele nansi inkinga

Isingena enhlizweni yami (X2)

(My spirits are down, there's a problem

that has entered my heart)

Inyakaza ngaphakathi ingwenya

Ifuna ukungiqeda yami (X2)

(I feel it moving inside me, a crocodile,

it wants to devour me, I feel it moving inside my heart)

I never quite know what you're going to do

Heal my soul or cut me through

Like a sacrificial lamb

Like a green marine in Vietnam

If you touch me now I will fly like a bleeding dove

Oooh... I want your crocodile love.

I'm on the runway, and I'm ready to fly

I know I'll meet you under the sky

Oh yea, I'll come from above

Oh yea, I want your crocodile love...

This is not the one

This is the one

This is not the one....

Wetholakele ngiyakuthanda

Wetholakele ungiphoxa ngento eyodwa wetholakele (X2)

(Tholakele I love you Tholakele

but you upset me badly over one thing...)

Wayifakelani idelela mawulahla umlenze

Wayifakelani ibeleza (X2)

(Why do you wear jeans and sell yourself in the street,

why do you wear bellbottoms?)

Chorus

Wayifakelani idelela mawulahla umlenze

Wayifakelani ibeleza

(Why do you sell yourself and wear jeans and bellbottoms?)

Into-ni lo ongenza yona?

Uma ulahla umlenze, into-ni lo ongenza yona?

(What are you doing to me

by secretly streetwalking, what are you doing to me?)

She's round like the moon, loves like a big monsoon

And she keeps me crazy

Like a great gondola on a midnight lake

She floats in my heart big and lazy

She says, "I'm your studla" (big lady)

I'm your cream cake

I'm your lucky packet

I'm your falling planet

I'll make your night sky dance for the sun."

Chorus

Studla sami sihle

(My big lady is beautiful)

Sizwana namatonkomane

(and she loves peanuts)

Studla sami uma sigida

Kunyakaza wonke umhlaba

(my big lady, when she dances

the whole world shakes)

Across her latitudes

Shapes of coloured moods

Magic geometry

An appetite for words

She talks the sun to sleep

And invites the moon to touch her sea

She says, "I'm your studla" (big lady)

I'm your rushing ocean

I will never end

I am your true friend

You only conquered me

Because I let you

Chorus

Sizwa ukukhala emzini wendoda

(We hear crying in the home of a man)

Kukhala intombazane

(it is a young girl who is crying)

Ithi, "Wemama, ngiyesaba ukuya emzini

(She says, "Mama, I am afraid to go to the house of my husband-to-be)

Bathi ibodwe liyashisa

(they say his family is very difficult)

Wenhliziyo zami sezimbili

(my heart is divided into two,)

Enye ithi angihambe, enye ithi angibuye le khaya"

(one heart says I should go, the other heart says I should

stay here at home and not get married")

Chorus

Thula mntanami nawe uyazi

(Be quiet, my child, you always knew the truth)

Thula mntanami isoka lizokuthatha

(Be quiet, my child, a young man will be coming to take

you away and marry you)

Thula mntanami nawe uyazi

(Be quiet, my child, you always knew)

Thula mntanami, uzohamba le khaya

(Be quite, my child, for you will have to leave your family

and your home, and join your husband's family)

Isoka lizokuthatha

(because a young man will take you away)

Lizokuthatha isoka

(he will take you, this young man)

Sizwa ukukhala emzini wendoda

(We hear crying in the home of a man)

Kukhala intombazane

(it is a young girl who is crying)

Ithi, "Uma ngikhumbula ukukhula kwami

(She says, "When I remember the good times I had growing up)

Phakhathi kwalomuzi kababa

(in the house of my father)

Ngiyesaba, ngiyesaba ukushiya ekhaya

(I become afraid, I become afraid of leaving home)

'Zinhliziyo zami sezimbili"

(My heart is split in two, I am so uncertain")

Chorus

Every day now when I wake up

You know I feel just a little bit stronger

I stir my coffee with the promise I'll find you

Although I know the road is much longer

How many times I've sat and prayed

I'd find some map to show the way

How many times I've felt each day

Laugh at me and just slip away

Chorus

I don't know where you are

My eyes are fixed upon your star

I know that that at the journey's end

I will see your face again

Indlela 'yasidedela

(The way is now clear for us)

Sihamb' emalonjeni

(we begin our long journey)

Another highway, another mile

Through the dreamtime, down the Nile

Under the desert sky blue

I have a picture of loving you

How many nights I lie awake

Feeling your footprints in my soul

How many miles will it now take

To fill this cup and make it whole

Chorus

Sihamba singadlile, lasho ithumbo

(We travel hungry, and our stomachs talk to us)

Chorus

Kuthi angihambe, ngihamba lekhaya, ngidlala isangoma

(I felt I should go, I should leave this home and visit a diviner)

-- Hawu! Ayikho into enjalo madoda! (X2)

(Hey! this is a fraudulent activity, you guys!)

Sabula amanga isangoma

(The diviner told me lies)

Samnuka umkami ekhaya

(and blamed my wife at home for all my misfortune)

Hawu! Ayikho into enjalo madoda!

(Hey! this is a fradulent activity, you guys!)

Chorus

Muzi wami, udlala ngomuzi wami

(My home and family, the diviner tried to play with

my home and family, and destroy them)

Kuthi angihambe, ngihamba lekhaya, ngidlala isangoma

(I felt I should go, I should leave this home and visit a diviner)

-- Hawu! Ayikho into enjalo madoda! (X2)

(Hey! this is a fraudulent activity, you guys!)

Sabula amanga isangoma

(The diviner told me lies)

Samnuka umkami ekhaya

(and blamed my wife at home for all my misfortune)

Hawu! Ayikho into enjalo madoda!

(Hey! this is a fradulent activity, you guys!)

Chorus

In the history of all dreams

None has shone as brightly as you

Wrestling with your book of colours

Page by page I look for clues

>From the gloom of my dark window

I know one day I will make that flight, I will.....

Chorus

Step into your circle of light

Ye le le mama

Between Jesus and my ancestors

Between my tribe and my "urban cool"

Lies a bridge never crossed by any other

I cross that distance with my sacred shoes

Who needs the stars if you can see the moon

Because in my dreams you keep shining through, I will....

Chorus

Step into your circle of light

Ye le le mama

I'll cross your ocean tonight

Ye le le mama

Into your circle of light

I will leave the house of my father

I do not dream there any more

Dance across the silence of the future

And make for tomorrow's shifting shores

I've got the wind to my back

I've got the moon in my eye

I've got the earth beneath my feet and I'm steady

I've got to meet the dealer and trade a lost soul,

I feel strong and I'm ready....

Chorus

Johnny:

Eshe mfowethu! Ithini lenkunzana yasesemanzani?

(Hi there 'Bro! What does litte Bull from the place of waters, say?

Sipho:

Hayi, noma izacile isandonsa-nje

(No, even if the Bull is gaunt and thin, it still has a lot of life left in

it)

Johnny:

Uthini mfowethu ngesimo esanamhlanje?

(What do you think, brother, about life in these times?)

Sipho:

Ithatha osemsamo lamhlahla emyango ngichaza abakini mangishonjalo

(Fortune has removed those from chosen positions and thrown them

out of the house. I am referring to some of your fellow countrymen who

were once in power.)

Johnny:

Ngibona abelungu betoyi-toyi eSandton bengasafuni ukukhokha irenti,

uthini ngalokhu mfowethu?

Sipho:

Kulomhlaba omusha yilo usho okuthandayo

(In this new country of ours, everyone and anyone has the right to

express themselves freely....)

Chorus

Thandazani nani makholwa

(Everybody pray, including you Christians)

Namhlanje kunzima-nyana

(for today things are a little difficult)

Abazusazi ekhaya mhla sifika

(our families will not recognize us the day we arrive)

Ngoba saguka endleleni njenge thaya

(for we grow old on the road, like a car-tyre.)

Johnny:

Egoli ngabona umfazi eshaya indoda emhlala phansi ngemzuzwana

(In Johannesburg I saw a woman punch a man and knock him out in a

few seconds)

Sipho:

Namhlanje isandla 'somfazi sinjengesendoda

(Today a woman's hand is equal to that of a man)

Johnny:

Egoli ngabona umnikazi wegalaji oswela imoto

(In Johannesburg I saw the owner of a garage who didn't own a car)

Sipho:

Isicathulo se-shoemaker sicela ipapa

(and the shoemaker's shoes are hungry because they have holes in them

and the tongue is sticking out begging for porridge)

Johnny:

Bengithi ngishela intombi e-Hillbrow yangibuza ukuthi ngiphethe imalini

(I tried to chat up a girl in Hillbrow but she asked me how much money I

had...)

Sipho:

Hawu! Ungakhohlwa ijazi lomwenyane, pasoba!

(Wow! Just don't forget the "son-in-laws' overcoat" [condom], watch out!)

Chorus

Ngahlangana nomfo' kasibiya izolo

(I met up with Sibiya yesterday)

Wathi "We-Jonathan, angiphathekile kahle mina

(he said, "Jonathan, I am in a very bad way)

Ngiphupha ubaba ongasekho ekhomba inkomo yakhe

(I dream of my late father pointing at his ox)

Ngikhumbula engitshela ethi "wemfana wami

(and I remember him telling me -- "my boy

Uma ngihamba kulomhlaba wemfana wami

(on the day I pass away and leave this earth)

Musa ukungifihla ngebokisi (X3)

(do not bury me in a coffin)

Wemfana wami

(my boy)

Awungebesa ngesikhumba senkomo emhlophe, wemfana wami

(you should bury me wrapped in the skin of a white ox, my boy)

Awungihambisa ngenkomo emhlophe

(you should send me on my last journey by means of a white ox)

Inkomo, inkomo kababa, wo-ye-ye-ye!

(The ox, the ox of my father....)

Chorus

Akalele ubaba ekhaya

(Father is not at ease at home)

Akafuni ibokisi, ufuna inkomo

(he does not want a coffin, he wants an ox)

Akalele ubaba ekhaya

(father is not resting at home)

Washo mfokasibiya wathi "Jonathan lalela lana

(Sibiya continued saying, "Jonathan, listen here.)

Ngokushona kababa kwenzeka isimanga

(On the day my father died a most unfortunate thing happened)

Abantu bomndeni babethi bayamdumisa

(Our family thought they would give hima great sendoff)

Bamfihla ngebokisi engalifuni

(and they buried him in a coffin, knowing he did not want this)

Saxabana thina sodwa bomndeni (X2)

(we fought among ourselves, we the members of the family)

Saxabana ngoba ngathi mina bayasithela ngebadi

(we argued because I said they had done something which would bring great

misfortune)

Benkunzima ngelelolanga sifihla ubaba

(It was difficult the day we buried my father)

Benkunzima ngelelolanga

(It was difficult that day)

Chorus

Ubaba akalele ekhaya, ugudla isibaya

(Father is not at ease at home, his spirit wanders around the cattle

enclosure)

Ibokisi lakhe selimbophile

(It feels imprisoned by the coffin)

Ufuna isikhumba senkomo yakhe (X2)

(His spirit still wants to be accompanied by his ox)

Impela ayikho into esifuna lemhlabeni madoda (X2)

(Indeed, our desire in this world for some truth always seems to come to

nothing, men)

Ngibona abantu behlebana bezondana

(I see people slandering and hating each other)

Umunye uzonda umakhelwane

(each one in conflict with his neighbour)

Izinhliziyo zabantu ziyashisa ziyababa - ya!

(The hearts of all the people are on fire, they are bitter)

Umunye uzonda umakhelwane

(each one in conflict with his neighbour)

Chorus

Izinhliziyo zabantu ziyashisa emhlabeni (X2)

(The hearts of all people across the country are on fire)

Sothatha-phi amanzi, sothatha-phi amanzi wokucima lomlilo?

(Where can we get enough water to put out these fires?)

Wangizonda makhelwane?

(Why does my neighbour not get on with me?)

Sothatha-phi amanzi, sothatha-phi amanzi wokucima lomlilo?

(Where can we get enough water to put out these fires?)