Universal Men-Johnny Clegg & Savuka/Sipho Mchunu

[ti:Universal Men] [ar:Johnny Clegg/Soweto Gospel Choir] [al:The Best of Johnny Clegg - Juluka & Savuka] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Universal Men - Johnny Clegg & Savuka/Sipho Mchunu [00:25.42]I have undone this distance so many times before [00:29.99] [00:31.38]That it seems as if this life of [00:33.81]Mine is trapped between two shores [00:36.20] [00:37.34]As the little ones grow older on the station platform [00:42.04] [00:43.17]I shall undo that distance just once more [00:47.18] [00:52.52]My brothers and my sisters have been scattered in the wind [00:57.17] [00:58.46]Dressed in cheap horizons which have never quite fitted [01:02.98] [01:04.31]And for centuries they've traveled on a pale phantom ship [01:09.19] [01:10.28]Sailing for that shore which has no other shore [01:14.55] [01:17.07]And they sing [01:17.94] [01:40.35]And not me [01:41.14] [01:45.23]From their hands leap the buildings [01:48.09]From their shoulders bridges fall [01:50.17] [01:51.32]And they stand astride the mountains [01:53.40] [01:53.94]And they pull out all the gold [01:55.94] [01:56.98]And the songs of their fathers raise strange cities to the sky [02:01.39] [02:02.54]Where they did not belong and could not belong [02:05.39]And they never knew why [02:06.77] [02:10.87]And they share with the swallows [02:13.51]All their winters and their hopes [02:15.77] [02:17.10]But often they get lost between the highways and the stores [02:21.51] [02:22.59]And the rivers of the homelands murmur in their dreams [02:27.25] [02:28.21]They're shackled to that distance till heaven let's them in [02:32.36] [02:34.84]And they sing [02:35.66] [02:57.42]And not me [02:57.99] [03:02.62]Well they could not read and they could not write [03:05.67]And they could not spell their names [03:07.70] [03:08.57]But they took this world in both hands [03:11.39]And they changed it all the same [03:12.99] [03:14.13]And from whence they came and where [03:16.17]They went nobody knows or cares [03:18.59] [03:19.83]Cast adrift between two worlds [03:22.58]They could still be heard to say [03:24.32] [03:28.30]I have undone this distance so many times before [03:32.50] [03:33.69]That it seems as if this life of [03:36.33]Mine is trapped between two shores [03:38.25] [03:39.38]As the little ones grow older on the station platform [03:43.77] [03:44.94]I shall undo that distance just once more [03:48.40] [03:51.38]And I sing [03:52.38] [04:13.89]And not me