Human Rainbow - Johnny Clegg & Savuka



     
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Human Rainbow Lyrics


Baleka uzohaqwa!
(escape before you are injured!)
Uwahaqwa!
(too late he is injured!)
Webaba sicel'impilo
(father, give us life, save our lives)At the end of all bloody human storms
As the last embers and flames glow
We peer up into the wounded sky
And search for the human rainbow
And in the fading light I wonder why
We can never free it from the skyWangitshela lendaba
(you have told me of this thing)
I can see it, but never be it, until I free it
From the skyChorusSame old human story
The saddest winds do blow
While we are trapped in the language of dark history
Underneath a human rainbowAn angry young man draws in the air
Political equations

But time corrupts the fruit they bare
And leads to more desperation
While in the sky -- it's a trick of the light
Shine the colors of all creationChorusNgizokutshela!
(I will tell you, that's how it is).Same old human story
Same old human story

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Johnny Clegg's second crossover band Savuka takes its name from the Zulu word for "We have risen". Savuka, like Clegg's first band Juluka before it, mixes African music with Celtic folk music and international rock sounds. They recorded four albums: Third World Child (1987), Shadow Man (1988), Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World (1989), Heat, Dust & Dreams (1993). The last album was nominated for a US Grammy Award for the best world music album in 1993.

In the United States songs performed by Johnny Clegg have appeared in three well-known feature films: "Scatterlings of Africa" in Rain Main, "Dela" in George of the Jungle, and "Life Is a Magic Thing" in the animated film Ferngully.


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