Lyrics to Johnny Clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - africa (what made you so strong)
rain falling like a symphony on the roof top of my heart there's a movement in the whispering deep before the new dream starts i see your eyes shining like a neon light . smiling in the dark - what ma johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - african litany
trapped in a moment of history you changed the world and the day was yours laughing sun flashing from your smile your beach-bronzed body braced against the wind but you forgot the wheel keeps turning johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - african shadow man
if you come to my house i will show you something to see it's a picture of a man, i used to be but these days i'm running through the dark like a blind man, what's happened to me? these days searchin johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - african sky blue
african sky blue, your children wait for the dawn african sky blue, soon a new day will be born african sky blue african sky blue, will you bless my life? african sunshine, soon you will warm your ch johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - all is not lost
something's changed in the weather there's a movement underground something slipped from the finger and may never again be found standing lost by a river in a land far from you i came seeking things o johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - are you ready?
hawu! bheka mama! oye! hamb'ugadile! (be alert and be on guard) i feel a river in flood in my veins i can feel your love in my brain it wants to dance my life through a hurricane dance the johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - are you there? (ukhona na?)
all the young and brave will turn to face the empty days to dream tomorrow into shape and those that fall will pray that some will fight on through the dark not give in and hold the dream keep it stro johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - asimbonanga
chorus: asimbonanga--------------------(we have not seen him) asimbonang' umandela thina-----(we have not seen mandela) laph'ekhona--------------------(in the place where he is) laph'ehleli khona----- johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - berlin wall
welcome to my island but please don't you stay too long i wouldn't want anyone to think that something's going on toe the line and you'll be fine you'll see another day don't connect, don't reflect, j johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - bombs away
it was a day or so ago i saw him run into the night and on his face, more than a trace of wild fear in the eye he was haunted by a tragic dream of people in death machines and he did not know which s johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - bull - man - free
baba, ngizwe isimanga, mina ngizwe isimanga baba, ngizwe isimanga, mina ngizwe isimanga isoka ladlala ngentombi, isoka (repeat) isoka alikhiphanga inkomo, isoka (repeat) "i am bull-man-free, i am johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - circle of light
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 fl johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - crocodile love
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 in johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - cruel crazy beautiful world
you have to wash with the crocodile in the river you have to swim with the sharks in the sea you have to live with the crooked politician trush those things that you can never see ayeye ayeye jesse mf johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - dance across the centuries
it's a world of "hang on to what you've got" it's a world of "do or die" i know you never take it serious and you keep your head up high i know you'd like to speak to the manager o johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - dela
one day i looked up and there you stood like a simple question looking for an answer now i am a whale listening to some inner call swimming blindly to throw myself upon your shores but what if i don't johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - digging for some words
wanderers and nomads have gone to see their chieftains will this be the end of the rain and the birds? who can send an emissary to speak to the seasons? for the ravens and the crows already soak up th johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - don't walk away
dogs in the backyard and the flies are on the wall thunder and lightning but the rain don't ever fall if there's a flower in this desert it's your picture on my wall ibe dat baby i'm going to make you johnny clegg

johnny clegg & savuka - emotional allegiance
i don't want to be a tourist in your heart i don't want to visit someone else's ruins don't want a day trip to the feelings in the dark don't want a quick-fix honeymoon we need emotional allegiance d johnny clegg