New World Survivor

Mercy in bondage

In the final war for peace

Peasants, rebels, outcasts

Citizens' police





This crazy century

and a dazzling frontier

And the shameless guilt of the domain of the world

And the genocide of innocence





Hackers, slackers, generation-X backpackers

Tribesmen and rockstars on silicone screens

Virtual emotions, digital dreams

Rushing for tomorrow where the future used to be





Chorus





I see the picture

I feel strong

I see the river

Flowing on





Do you see the picture?

Do you feel strong?

Do you see the river

Flowing on and on and on?





I've been waiting for what you're waiting for

I've been knocking at the same door.

I want to know what

We have become.





I want to touch your face, I want to get a sense of place

Before we step out into the sun.





Blue electric oceans

Information streams

Webs and nets in motion

Connecting you and me...





Chorus





I see the picture

I feel strong

I see the river

Flowing on





Do you see the picture?

Do you feel strong?

Do you see the river

Flowing on and on and on?

I'm showing you this picture

Because it changed all that I am

It's a picture of somebody

She's beautiful and holding my hand





At the moment they took the picture

I felt a moment of something real

And I knew I could be somebody

And change this life I feel





I feel a new day coming on

See colours of change

I feel a new day coming on





I know the feeling of every man who's lived alone

And found that special place that he could call his own

Not that it means anything at all (x2)

She's just the one who gives me

A place in this world





For an instant

I felt the sun was shining down on me

And I knew

I had the chance

To be somebody





I feel a new day coming on

See colours of change

I feel a new day coming on





(bye bye loneliness - hello love)

Black Rain fall into my life





I'm looking for a woman who has seen some pain

Looking for a woman who can dance through the flame

Are you looking at me mama 'cause I'm looking at you





Can you Cha Cha mama?

Cha cha in the rain





Cha Cha mama

Cha cha in the rain





Black rain falling down

Gives my life such a sad sad sound

Black rain falling down

Tear from the Heaven is a tear on the ground





Chorus





Can you cha cha mama

Can you cha cha in the rain?





The days are long and the living is hard

Never had wheels or a credit card

But I'll give you loving through the darkest day

And when the times are tough we can cha cha in the rain





Cha Cha mama

Cha cha in the rain





Black rain falling down

Gives my life such a sad sad sound

Black rain falling down

Tear from the Heaven is a tear on the ground





Can you cha cha mama

Can you cha cha in the rain?





Black Rain fall into my life





Black rain falling down

Gives my life such a sad sad sound

Black rain falling down

Tear from the Heaven is a tear on the ground





Can you cha cha mama

Can you cha cha in the rain?

I was sitting at the corner cafe

Looking across Montego Bay

I wanted to remember the perfect view

But I was looking at my watch

I was waiting for you

With secrets and your eyes that sing

With your soft skirt flowing in the wind

It's a picture that you always paint

Between the sinners and the saints





Is this water?

Am I drowning?

Is this water?





There's a boat out on the ocean.

There's a swimmer in the tide.

There's a nervous crowd that's watching

Hope he makes it to the other side...





Ah Ah

In this strange and new territory

I await your arrival

I'm strong when you stand next to me

I'll be your new world survivor





In a world that's changing

Nothing is what it seems

The old order is caving

Hold onto your dreams





You stand out like a beacon in the night

My ship is sailing by your true light

All around us everything falling

Everything falling





Is this water?

Am I drowning?

Is this water?





There's a boat out on the ocean.

There's a swimmer in the tide.

There's a nervous crowd that's watching

Hope he makes it to the other side...





Ah Ah

In this strange and new territory

I await your arrival

I'm strong when you stand next to me

I'll be your new world survivor





I see the promise of your light

As we sail across these dark oceans of change





Ah Ah

In this strange and new territory

I await your arrival

I'm strong when you stand next to me

I'll be your new world survivor

Keep this for protection

Deep in your heart

It's the Kalahari blowing

Under a southern star





There's a new day coming

I feel it in my bones

Africa Rising

From blood on the stones





I feel the wind in my sails

I know I can fly

I'm going to break these chains

Under a blood red sky





I said Hey La

I said Helele

I said Hey La

I said Hala





Isoka lapha wena ukhatizwe





Good young people

Born to bad times

Where the prophjets have failed

And the river runs dry

There's a new day coming

Across the divide

Africa Rising

Against yesterday's tide





I see the young are strong

And their dreams are proud

Their hearts are on fire

Where silence once stood





I said Hey La

I said Helele

I said Hey La

I said Hala





Suka lapha wena weqath'izwe

('Leave this place, you who incited the nations tofight')





Baleka wena weqath'izwe

('Flee, you who incited the nations tofight')





Sesikhatele

('we are tired')





African moon

Keep on rising

Shine on to the sea of Japan

Millions in the darkness waiting

From Kowloon to Amsterdam





Very soon I must be leaving

I hear your mother call my name

Passing through the midnight hour

I feel no pain





I said Hey La

I said Helele

I said Hey La

I said Hala

I feel nervous about these times she said

It's like the beginning of the fall of Rome

I feel lost on this rising tide she said

Of superhighways and genetic clones





And I miss you like mad

When you go away

And I fear the things I read about

These coming days





A digital picture wired to the moon

A chemical sister

Yoiu know she's coming soon





A virtual lover always waiting there for you

And the human touch

Fades into the blue





I feel blue

I feel strange

I feel naked in the rain





And I know

In this world

Very little stays the same





If you could see me now

Would you remember my name?





'cause I could never forget you





A software prophet said the other day

This the final ride we're on our way

Like a weapon ready to unleash its load

We're genetically coded to decode our code





And I miss you like mad

When you go away

And I fear the things we read about

These coming days





I feel blue

I feel strange

All these pictures in the rain





All those times

All those moments

Lost forever

Like tears in the rain





I could never forget you





I feel new

I feel strange

I feel naked in the rain





And I know

In this world

Very little stays the same





'cause I could never forget you

Each day is a train thundering down my back

Every moment I'm looking for a new plan of attack

Every night I lie awake listening to the river flow

Time is slipping away

I watch each second of it go





Then you step out smiling in the sun

And I knew that if I waited

You would come





Always on time

Never like the others

Always on the line

Showing your true colours

My true other

You are my true other





I see others run

I even see some of them fly

I'm standing on the earth but I'm thinking of the sky

Where do I belong?

Is there a place here for me?

I don't want to be a passing moment in someone else's dreams





Then you step out smiling in the sun

And I knew that if I waited

You would come





Always on time

Never like the others

Always on the line

Showing your true colours

Always on time

My true other

You are my true other





There's a picture of my loneliness

It's a man on a highway





Walking





There's a picture of my loneliness

It's a boy at the station





Waiting





You are where I want to be





Always on time

Never like the others

Always on the line

Showing your true colours

Always on time

My true lover

You are my true lover





There's a picture of my loneliness

It's a man on the highway





Walking





There's a picture of my loneliness

It's a boy on the station





Waiting

I know it's coming wrong or right

I'm leaving flesh and blood behind

All that I have left is my mind

The last trace of the human sign





Take my life and clone me do

Turn me into something new

Promise me a brand new day

Take these human chains away





You can change me

Rearrange me

You can turn me inside out

The future's calling I'm not stalling

I'm on the edge you can hear me shout





It's a brave new world





I'm tired of this human shape

Inside me lies a cyber ape

New world is calling out my name

Time to make my great escape





Take my life and clone me do

Turn me into something new

Promise me a brand new day

Take these human chains away





You can change me

Rearrange me

You can turn me inside out

The future's calling I'm not stalling

I'm on the edge you can hear me shout





It's a brave new world





Maybe it's good to dance andsing, laugh and cry

Maybe there's something special in the human eye

Maybe I know I'll miss your tender touch

cause I'm a prisoner of hope

You know that much





Take my life and clone me do

Turn me into something new

Promise me a brand new day

Take these human chains away





You can change me

Rearrange me

You can turn me inside out

The future's calling I'm not stalling

I'm on the edge you can hear me shout





It's a brave new world

I have undone this distance

So many times before

It seems as if this life of mine

Is trapped between two shores

As the little ones grow older on the station platform

I will undo that distance just once more





My brothers and my sisters have been scattered in the wind

Dressed in cheap horizons that have never quite fitted

And for centuries they've travelled in a pale phantom ship

Sailing for that shore which has no other





They made the world that you live in

They made it go around

They made the world we live in





They made the world that we live in

They make it go around

They made the world we live in





They could not read

And they could not write

And they could not spell their names

BUt they took this world in both hands

And they changed it all the same

And from whence they came and where they went

Nobody knows or cares





They made the world that you live in

They made it go around

They made the world we live in





They made the world that we live in

They make it go around

They made the world we live in





From our hands leap the buildings

From our shoulders bridges fall

We stand astride the mountain

And pull out all the gold

The rivers of our homelands

Murmur in our dreams

We are trapped inside that distance

Until the future sets us free





They made the world that you live in

They made it go around

They made the world we live in





They made the world that we live in

They make it go around

They made the world we live in

I woke up this morning

I went to the window

Mouth feels like a birdcage

And I'm dying for a cigarette





Look across the skyline

The morning sun is rising

Air is thick and heavy

Like the smell of opportunity





And I feel like a motherless child

I feel like a motherless child





Promises on the table

Empty bottles on the floor

Hoped I'd see your face again

Waiting at my door





I remember how you used to be wild

With your wheels on the road for miles and miles





I want to ride in your car





Cleaning up the kitchen

Before I go to work

Another dollar another day

For some other jerk





Thinking of some other place

Somewhere true

Always planning my escape

From the human Zoo





I remember how you used to be wild

With your wheels on the road for miles and miles





I want to ride in your car

I've been watching you now for a long long time

Across the river you've been waiting for the tide

Everything that you ever did is in your eyes

I can see you coming out in the shadow of the moonlight





Like you I've struggled with the question of right life

Like you I've been in the belly of the night





CHORUS





Hold me close it's dark and cold outside

It's raining days and nights into our lives

Into our Lives





The captain says that it doesn't look so good from here

Hope and mercy are stranded on the pier

Love is the prisoner of the dark and the weird

Only the stars in heart will guide you clear





Like you I've struggled with the question of right life

Like you I've been in the belly of the night





CHORUS





Hold me close it's dark and cold outside

It's raining days and nights into our lives

I can make it on my own

But it's good to have you by my side.

Hold me close it's dark and cold outside





Only the stars in your heart (yelele mama)





CHORUS





Hold me close it's dark and cold outside

It's raining days and nights into our lives

Buttons from a uniform

A cartridge from the war

Letters to my mother

Hidden in a drawer





All around me empty space

Never filled by a father's face

In my mind he's strong and warm

I like the picture I have drawn





He's a shadow man

He's my father

He's the hidden link in my chain

He's a shadow man

He's my father

He's the one who lives inside my name

I'm the only link in the chain





Fragments of memories

From other people's lives

Gather and collect them

To see my father's eyes





Eyes to see the future come

Eyes to see the past

Eyes to see his only son

From whom he was cast





He's a shadow man

He's my father

He's the one who lives inside my name

He's a shadow man

He's my father

I'm the only link in the chain





What you gonna be when you grow up?

How you gonna fill that empty cup?

Be strong and hold your head up high

Teach yourself how to fly





He's a shadow man

He's my father

He's a shadow man