Johannesburg

higly armed the white police

are blowing away little knees

crushed bones and finger tips

are forming words on bleeding lips

blue eyes are watching them

blue eyes are killing them

but there's no hope when they pray

the lord seems to be miles away

we saw the spirit of johannesburg

filthy smoke covering the sun

a bullet left another gun

a nation screams in agony

in pure fear pure apathy

lord oh lord where have you gone

see what your children have done

but there's no hope when they pray

the lord seems to be miles away

and thought the days of fascism

and racism had gone

i'd never thought that there would

be things like oppression

humiliatiion and persecution

that a dump white male minority

could rule over a black majority

south africa you're only

the top of a lethal flood

south africa ruled by die hard fanatics

but still there's a mass of people

who are protesting, fighting

and demonstrating against a system

which degrades them to animals

but animals fight back when they're

in life danger also human beings fight back

so fight back in the name of freedom

fight back in the name of human rights

for a redemption, for a solution

hoist the flags of revolution!

my lord when will the white bastion fall!