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Artist: This Heat
Canonical path: /this-heat/makeshift-swahili
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Makeshift Swahili
Read Makeshift Swahili lyrics by This Heat on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Makeshift Swahili
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makeshift she sings in her native german,
you try to understand what she's trying to say
she says "your only as good
as the word you understand"
and you, you don't understand a word
tower of babel, swahili, it's all greek to me
bi-lingual, double dutch, gift of the gab
we give you firewater you give us your land,
"white man speak with forked tongue",
but it's too late now to start complaining,
too late
monosyllabic, hieroglyphic, etcetera, etcetera
new lamps for old
rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
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