Talk To The People - Johnny Clegg, Savuka

There’s a brawl in a lonely whites only bar

A lekker groove in a classy shebeen

Someone betrayed in a government car

A silent movement on the stock market screen

A watchman playing on a zulu guitar

A white soldier’s blues in camouflage green

A migrant worker who’s come too far

A sailor aground in a submarine

Phendula wendoda

(answer, mister)

Lendlela sizofika kanjani

(this way, how will we arrive?)

Talk to the people

Walk through the country

Listen to the children

Do you know the dreams they dream at night

Only you, only you can see me

Only you, only you can free me

Only you breathe life into the land

Touch me with your healing hand

There’s a township mongrel on the scrounge

A tribal feud in a municipal 'pound

A squatter with an ox but no land to plough

A shipment of a.k.s on the underground

A throw of the dice on a soweto train

A waiting knife if you should win the game

A human rights lawyer with a torture claim

A union activitist never ever seen again

Phendula wemadoda

(give the answer…)

Talk to me

God hear the children

God save the country

God hear the people

God bless the dreams they dream at night