Universal Men-Johnny Clegg/Soweto Gospel Choir

[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/Soweto Gospel Choir [00:25.40]I have undone this distance so many times before [00:29.97] [00:31.36]That it seems as if this life of [00:33.79]Mine is trapped between two shores [00:36.18] [00:37.32]As the little ones grow older on the station platform [00:42.02] [00:43.15]I shall undo that distance just once more [00:47.16] [00:52.50]My brothers and my sisters have been scattered in the wind [00:57.15] [00:58.44]Dressed in cheap horizons which have never quite fitted [01:02.96] [01:04.29]And for centuries they've traveled on a pale phantom ship [01:09.17] [01:10.26]Sailing for that shore which has no other shore [01:14.53] [01:17.05]And they sing [01:17.92] [01:40.33]And not me [01:41.12] [01:45.21]From their hands leap the buildings [01:48.07]From their shoulders bridges fall [01:50.15] [01:51.30]And they stand astride the mountains [01:53.38] [01:53.92]And they pull out all the gold [01:55.92] [01:56.96]And the songs of their fathers raise strange cities to the sky [02:01.37] [02:02.52]Where they did not belong and could not belong [02:05.37]And they never knew why [02:06.75] [02:10.85]And they share with the swallows [02:13.49]All their winters and their hopes [02:15.75] [02:17.08]But often they get lost between the highways and the stores [02:21.49] [02:22.57]And the rivers of the homelands murmur in their dreams [02:27.23] [02:28.19]They're shackled to that distance till heaven let's them in [02:32.34] [02:34.82]And they sing [02:35.64] [02:57.41]And not me [02:57.98] [03:02.61]Well they could not read and they could not write [03:05.66]And they could not spell their names [03:07.69] [03:08.56]But they took this world in both hands [03:11.38]And they changed it all the same [03:12.98] [03:14.12]And from whence they came and where [03:16.16]They went nobody knows or cares [03:18.58] [03:19.82]Cast adrift between two worlds [03:22.57]They could still be heard to say [03:24.31] [03:28.29]I have undone this distance so many times before [03:32.49] [03:33.68]That it seems as if this life of [03:36.32]Mine is trapped between two shores [03:38.24] [03:39.37]As the little ones grow older on the station platform [03:43.76] [03:44.93]I shall undo that distance just once more [03:48.39] [03:51.37]And I sing [03:52.37] [04:13.88]And not me