One (Hu)'man One Vote

Johnny Clegg

(Haya, haya) Keep your head up, go foreward
Bayeza abafana bancane wema (Bayeza abafana bancane wema)
Bayeza abafana bancane wema (Bayeza abafana bancane wema)
(Haya, haya) Bayeza abafana
(Haya, haya)

The west is sleeping in a fragile freedom
Forgotten is the price that was paid (Hayi)
Ten thousand years of marching through a veil of tears
To break a few links in these chains

These things come to us but with much pain
Don't let us slip back into the dark
On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man
The shape of his own future, now in his own hands, he said

One man, one vote (Hayi), step into the future
One man, one vote, in a unitary state
One man, one vote, (Hayi) tell them when you see them
One man, one vote, it's the only way

Bayeza abafana abancane wema! (Bayeza abafana abancane wema)
Ayi, bayeza abafana abancane wema! (Bayeza abafana abancane wema)

Go forward (Haya, haya)
(Haya, haya)

In the east a giant is awakening
And in the south we feel the rising tide (Hayi)
The soul inside the spark that gives the breath to your life
Can no longer be made to hide
These things come to us but with much pain
Don't let us slip back into the dark
On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man
The shape of his own future, now in his own hands, he said

One man, one vote (Hayi), step into the future
One man, one vote, in a unitary state
One man, one vote, (Hayi) tell them when you see them
One man, one vote, it's the only way

Bayeza abafana bancane wema (Bayeza abafana bancane wema)
Bayeza abafana bancane wema (Bayeza abafana bancane wema)

Bapheth' iqwasha, bapheth ibazooka
Bathi sangena savuma thina
Lapha abazange bengena
Abazali bethu nabadala
Bayasikhalela thina ngoba asinavoti