BLACK MADIBA

Duration

3:19

Genres

Reggae

Description

Lyrics

WAS IT IN A DREAM I SAW YOU IN A CELL ON ROBBEN ISLAND IN A SIX FOOT HELL? CRUSHING ROCKS WITH A HAMMER TILL HANDS WERE SWOLLEN STEEL STRUCK STONE AS THE WAVES WERE ROLLING. WORE SHORT TROUSERS AND WAS TREATED LIKE A BOY TO HUMBLE MANDELA WAS THE CAPTORS JOY SITTING IN THE YARD SEWING UP THE CLOTHES DIGGING IN THE QUARRY DUST UP HIS NOSE. YES SIR, NO SIR, THREE BAGS FULL SIR THE STRUGGLE IS MY LIFE I'VE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE SIR. 95 YEARS MADIBA HE WALKED UPON THE EARTH AN INTELLECTUAL LAWYER THEY TREATED LIKE DIRT. APARTHEID WAS RAMPANT DIVISIONS IN THE LAND BROTHERS TREATED BADLY BY WHITE AFRIKANER'S THE SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE WHEN VIOLENCE ERUPTED A PEACEFUL MARCH THE CROWDS WERE INTERRUPTED POLICE FIRED GUNS FROM SARACEN TRUCKS SNIPERS PICKED THEM OFF JUST LIKE SITTING DUCKS. AFTER THIS ATROCITY HE COULDN'T TAKE NO MORE SO MADIBA AND THE ANC DECIDED TO SETTLE THE SCORE, TAKE UP ARMS AFRICANS DEFEND HOMES AND LIFE USE WHATEVER FORCE NECESSARY MACHETE, GUN OR KNIFE. MADIBA WENT ABROAD TO LET OTHER NATIONS KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA A TIME BOMB READY TO BLOW. STAY HERE IN LONDON FRIENDS SAID TO HIM BUT HE MADE HIS OWN DECISION, REFUSED TO SAVE HIS OWN LIFE COME DEATH OR SENT TO PRISON. FORGIVE YOUR BROTHERS FORGIVE YOUR SISTERS EVERY SINGLE DAY SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN THATS WHAT THE BIBLE SAY, CONTAINED BEHIND PRISON WALLS BECAUSE HE SPOKE THE TRUTH WHILE EVIL JUSTICE IN OUR TIMES GIVE LESS TO KILLERS OF YOUTH. FREED AND NOW A PRESIDENT IN HUMILITY HE HAD SPOKEN CAPTIVATED FOR SO LONG YET HIS PURPOSE WAS NOT BROKEN. REMEMBER BLACK MADIBA NOW HE IS LAID TO REST A WOUNDED SOLDIER OF OUR TIMES WHO TRIED TO DO HIS BEST. EVIL WAS NOT RENDERED ACCORDING TO ITS REWARD RECONCILIATION AND FORGIVENESS QUENCHED MANY A FIREY SWORD. REST IN PEACE BLACK MADIBA. REST IN PEACE MADIBA