Gold - Jeangu Macrooy

Gold, gold

everywhere I go I see gold

Gold, gold

everywhere I go I see gold

I was a child of ignorance

but I know what I know now

I opened my eyes to what I’ve seen before

to what I knew before

'cause it was written

in the black clay soil

with the blood of our

sisters and brothers and mothers and fathers

unholy sacrifices for coffee and sugar

and…

gold, gold

everywhere I go I see gold

(gold gold everywhere I go I see)

gold, gold

everywhere I go I see gold

(gold)

look at these children of ignorance

they don’t know

(know)

wasn’t told

(told)

blinded by a fox in a sugarcoat

'cause the past was rewritten

telling stories

of heros and glory

in a new world

singing songs about the age of coffee…

sugar

and gold gold

everywhere I go I see gold

(gold gold everywhere I go I see)

gold gold

everywhere I go I see gold

(gold)

we hold our dreams in our minds

the future is in our hands

but it will take some time to reach the promised land

we hold our dreams in our minds

the future is in our hands

but it will take some time to reach the promised land

(gold, gold, everywhere we go we see gold)

(gold, gold, everywhere we go we see gold)

(But we are no children of ignorance)

(we were told)

told

(what we know)

know

(led by the light of what is to come)

(we will write our own future)

(in gold)