Living
Darfur - Mattafix Lyrics
See the nation through
the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like
rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there
are only borderlines
Where others turn and
sigh,
You shall rise x2
There's disaster in your
past
Boundaries in your path
What do you desire will
lift you higher?
You don't have to be
extraordinary, just forgiving.
And those who never heard
your cries,
You shall rise x2
And look toward the skies.
Where others fail, you
prevail in time.
You shall rise.
Awu indoda yam
Hayi bayibulele bo
Hayi indoda yam
Hayi ababanda bam
Ukubu izi ingane zabo
zodlala zibuzuswa
Ingane ezindane zabo
zodlala zibuziswa
(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low)
x4
You shall rise x3
Sooner or later we must
try... Living
(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low)
x4
See the nation through
the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like
rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there
are only borderlines
Where others turn and
sigh,
You shall rise x4
(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low)
4x
Sooner or later we must
try... Living
Gangster Blues
, I know it’s only time
Only time until,
You pull the job that
kills
You say you’ ll never
do it
Again but you know
You will
Call your boys who know
the drill
It pains me to see how
you get you thrill
Now time will prove
Now you have to choose
If life’s the game you
lose
By taking one last chance
and falling
To the gangster blues.
I, I heard the people
say,
you’re in high demand.
Well badness will follow
badman.
You know you only do
it
son cause you now
you can
Another drive another
gram
Well think of your family
understand
Now time will prove
Now you have to choose
If life’s the game you
lose
By taking one last chance
and falling
You know its true,
Life can be so cruel
Time won’t wait for you
And I don’t want my friend
a victim
of the Gangster Blues.
Bad man and Bad John
From all about
Rock it out.
Me draw for me spliff
not
The cocaine
Me lef it out.
Babylon ah watch m run
big tings from long time
Time, time ey yeah.
Burning, hustling smuggling
planting
Ah bare weed me deal
wid
and me nah touch.
De hard ting.
Soon done ya chattin
when
de war start fi happen
right now.
Now time will prove
Now you have to choose
If life’s the game you
lose
By taking one last chance
and falling
To the gangster blues
Passer By
She said no words when
I chose to stand away.
In the backround of my
Mind when the sund rose
I chose the shade
Never wanted never
Needed all the priceless
Things to say
But i know that time
By
Alone was overdue
I know time alone was
Overdue
Overdue
At times rock stone is
The only bed that´s
made
So i have the faith come
What will come what may
Passer by in pain
She read those words
that
I chose to throw
Her way
And the timesthey were
Laden with hesistation
that
I made
And if you´re ever
my
Endeavour once again
then
I´ll be changed
But i know that it ain't
So my hope refrains
refrains
At time rock stone is
The only bed that´s
made
So i have the faith come
What will come what may
Passer by in pain
At time rock stone is
The only bed that´s
made
So i have the faith come
What will come what may
By
And when i rise alone
It don´t feel the
same
So i have the faith come
What will come what may
Passer by in pain
Everyone Around You
They always told me
In the begining there
was life
There was sin that was
only
A story to explain
The state we're in
Gotta lie it's not your
own
Need to take care of
your home
Got a calling get some
feeling
You got a family now
[Chorus:]
Now do you think you're
too poor
The only one that wants
you
Wants to be loved by
you
And everyone around you
Can you even entertain
A thought that it's yourself
to blame
I know that it's killing
you
Just to hear this from
me
I always warned you
When life's upon you
-
Struggle before you run
in
Every moments loose your
focus
And fell to breathe in
It's not the place nor
the
time
You just start to change
your mind
Gotta hold it down
You got a family now
Stand and be proud
[Chorus:]
Now do you think you're
too cool
For the only one that
wants you
Wants to be loved by
you
And everyone around you
Can you even entertain
A thought that it's yourself
to blame
I know that it's killing
you
Just to hear this from
me
I know that it's killing
you
To hear this from me
You got the one of a
kind
And that's all you should
mind
How much life will you
claim
Your ideas need to change
And o-o-oh, I came to
say
I came to fight
With the pain they feel
'Cause of family name
[Chorus:]
Now do you think you're
too cool
For the only one that
wants you
Wants to be loved by
you
And everyone around you
Can you even entertain
A thought that it's yourself
to blame
I know that it's killing
you
Just to hear this from
me
I know that it's killing
you
To hear this from me |
Big
City Life
Big City Life,
Me try fi get by,
Pressure nah ease up
no matter how hard me try.
Big City Life,
Here my heart have no
base,
And right now Babylon
de pon me case
People in a show,
All lined in a row.
We just push on by,
Its funny,
How hard we try.
Take a moment to relax.
Before you do anything
rash.
Don’t you wanna know
me?,
Be a friend of mine.
I’ll share some wisdom
with you.
Don’t you ever get lonely,
From time to time
Don’t let the system
get you down
[Chorus]
Soon our work is done,
All of us one by one.
Still we live our lives,
As if all this stuff
survives.
I take a moment to relax,
Before I do anything
rash.
[Bridge]
The Linguist across the
seas and the oceans,
A permanent Itinerant
is what I've chosen.
I find myself in Big
City prison, arisen from the vision of man kind.
Designed, to keep me
discreetly neatly in the corner,
You’ll find me with the
flora and the fauna and the hardship.
Back a yard is where
my heart is still I find it hard to depart this Big City Life.
[Chorus]
To & Fro
I had a thought of you,
in solitude without rescue.
Your thoughts are in
the
puring rain,
and you feel the way
you
did before I met you.
Now I see the pain
forcing you to blame,
the only man that loved
you.
Well no one more got
close to me before.
I'm amazed I let you.
To & fro,
is how my thoughts
would go,
while I was looking for,
my release.
You should know,
I had to let you go,
now and forever more,
I'm out of reach.
Now I see it all,
right before me,
your little story.
My role was on the page,
I refused to play in
your
tragedy.
I feel no remorse while
you deal with yours.
How you feeling lately?
Well no one more got
close to me before.
Lady you betrayed me.
To & fro,
is how my thoughts
would go,
while I was looking for,
my release.
You should know,
I had to let you go,
now and forever more,
I'm out of reach.
Hence in the past tense,
the sentiments,
the arguments,
taking offence.
The only consequence,
I'm left to lament,
the love that came and
went.
I'm still a true gent.
Never bitter and never
twisted.
Only optimistic about
the main statistic.
Number one is standing
vertical cause I never
take things personal.
Believe me,
my woman my woman
is gone,
and so me jus move on.
Da Linguist, this producer
this performer,
moulded by the pain and
the trauma.
I'm on a mission to listen
to intuition more than
I've ever done before
never keep it hidden.
I won't waist away,
I'll wake up from day
to day and I'll face
this.
You're on a need to
know basis.
To & fro,
is how my thoughts
would go,
while I was looking for,
my release.
You should know,
I had to let you go,
now and forever more,
I'm out of reach.
Out of reach.
Clear And Present Danger
Pray tell sweet
rosemary,
are the times what
they're supposed to be?
Is leadership the same
as treachery?
Will knighthood silence
anarchy?
Sorry for the hurt.
Sorry that the destiny
seems to be the ever
clear and present
danger.
Headlines that fail
to trace.
Land mines in a dossier.
Young, naive I may be.
Vietnam don't look that
different to me.
Oh no.
And now, sorry for
the hurt.
Sorry that the destiny
seems to be the ever
clear and present
danger
Older
All i wanted was to
Live without the
Middleman
All you needed was a
Chance to say," i told
you so"
When you´re cold
and
Battered all you want
Is to know you matter
To someone
I had to throw away all
The plans we made and
Now these days
With marks against my
Shoulders i feel like
I´m older than
i am
All i want right now
Is to be my own child.
Do you think it makes
Me a better man just
Mo know i can be
Alone a while?
I had to throw away
All the plans we made
And now these days
With marks against my
shoulders i feel like
I´m older than
i am |
