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Look beyond the colour |
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Past the covering on us to see what we are |
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Turn the faded pages |
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The mark we leave on history is what we are |
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Every country is part of us |
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Irrespective of the one where we grew up |
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Yes you are my sister |
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Though we never shared a home that's what you are |
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And your eyes keep shining in the darkness |
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Defying all the chains that's what you are |
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Home for the homeless, hope for the hopeless |
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Between the lines on your face |
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I can read... |
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Nomzamo, Nomzamo... |
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They of the silk white breast seemingly proud |
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They are so much more less on the day of the vow |
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Here's a woman who is tired and weary |
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Leading resistance and still laying wreathes |
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How can we stand by and watch this happen? |
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Is this the justice we preach |
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It seems too much to ask for an equal, peaceful living |
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In a land of screams, stinging tears and broken smiles |
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Following through all extremes ' |
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One who will suffer many trials' |
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Is this a land to inherit? |
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Crumbs on the table the segregated people starve |
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With gleeful oppression the mindless procession |
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Cast nonchalance out of their cars |
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Somewhere, sometime we pay for the crimes we incessantly do |
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If we believe that we are what we leave |
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I left a hope--what did you? |
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Reeling from punches which leave them winded |
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Reeling from laws which should be rescinded now |
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Nomzamo, Nomzamo... |