Africa Rising

Keep this for protection

Deep in your heart

It's the Kalahari blowing

Under a southern star

There's a new day coming

I feel it in my bones

Africa Rising

From blood on the stones

I feel the wind in my sails

I know I can fly

I'm going to break these chains

Under a blood red sky

I said Hey La

I said Helele

I said Hey La

I said Hala

Isoka lapha wena ukhatizwe

Good young people

Born to bad times

Where the prophjets have failed

And the river runs dry

There's a new day coming

Across the divide

Africa Rising

Against yesterday's tide

I see the young are strong

And their dreams are proud

Their hearts are on fire

Where silence once stood

I said Hey La

I said Helele

I said Hey La

I said Hala

Suka lapha wena weqath'izwe

(Leave this place, you who incited the nations tofight)

Baleka wena weqath'izwe

(Flee, you who incited the nations tofight)

Sesikhatele

(We are tired)

African moon

Keep on rising

Shine on to the sea of Japan

Millions in the darkness waiting

From Kowloon to Amsterdam

Very soon I must be leaving

I hear your mother call my name

Passing through the midnight hour

I feel no pain

I said Hey La

I said Helele

I said Hey La

I said Hala