Pretoria - Little Steven

I was standing in Pretoria

Waiting for the sky to fall

Impilo Geyethu

Thina Sigidela Phambili

I am like any other man — I don’t complain

But my family’s so far away

I want to be with them someday

Men outside my window dressed in mask — they live a lie

But there’s one truth that they cannot deny

Their blood’s the same color as mine

I am not the prisoner today

You’ve been too long your soul locked away

Look around there is so much

What are you so afraid of?

Pretoria

Gather strength children say goodbye to the past

Dry your eyes and prepare to dance

The dance of freedom at last

Put your hand here touch me now

What you feel is what’s lost when we’re kept apart

It’s the beating of your own heart

I’m no soldier — no politician

I’m just a working man whose time has come

Look around there is so much

What are you so afraid of?

Impilo Geyethu

Thina Sigidela Phambili

Pretoria

Come dance with us

I was standing in Pretoria

Waiting for the sky to fall

And the eyes of the war crimes icons

Stared down with false immortality

The fallen flowers of the purple jacaranda

Covered the blood on the streets

The faces of the statues are tainted

With an unclean righteousness

But inside they’re crumbling

They know they ain’t got much time left

In Pretoria