Afrikaans

Lyrics

I hear gunfire See the blood run Feel the rage I see a black man See a coloured man in a cage The sweat of miners digging diamonds Digging graves To feed the boss-man To feed his family To feed his slaves Men are cursing Women praying for release But when a white man kills one of "them" no one sees From Capetown to Pretoria, to Johannesburg There is a crying of people dying that can be heard I hear the gunfire See the blood run Smell the fear You lock your minds up Shut the curtains You close your ears Forget the black man Neglect his baby Ignore his hell We need apartheid to keep the animal in his cell You sweep the pavement Shine the buildings Display the maid You say "Republic", I say, "Blind man, it's a cage," God makes the colour, but the colour doesn't make you God Oh, and in the judgment, he will remember the ones you've robbed Without the Lord's love this injustice will prevail Until Jesus is the only master we'll never break the bars of this jail