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 sky
Wangitshela lendaba (You have told me of this thing) I can
see it, but never be it, until I free it From the
sky
Chorus
Same old human story The saddest winds do
blow While we are trapped in the language of dark history Underneath a
human rainbow
An 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 creation
Chorus
Ngizokutshela! (I will tell you,
that's how it is).
