JCOSTER
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While listening to A Sort of Homecoming (for the millionth time) it struck me in a different way.
I was thinking that the words that were written in 83/84 really have something to do with the crisis going on all over in Africa today. The terror, heartache and the hope, will and dream of the African people.
And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow(time to move on for safety/food)
Across the fields of mourning
(the thousands of people dying there)
To a light that’s in the distance
(Hope for the future)
And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape
(just dream of a better future for the people of Africa)
Oh, on borderland we run
I'll be there, I'll be there
A high road
A high road out from here
They leave their homes or this life on earth with dignity)
The city walls are all pulled down
The dust a smokescreen all around
See faces ploughed like fields
That once gave no resistance
(all the fighting, dishonesty,corruption to people who can't fight back.)
And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill as the valley explodes
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of its own
(People are displaced due to the fighting & search of food, even the land gives up)
Oh, on borderland we run and still we run
We run and don't look back
I'll be there, I'll be there
Tonight, tonight
Trying to escape crisis, they run from town to town)
I'll be there tonight
I'll believe
I’ll be there so hold on
I’ll be there tonight
Tonight
(Someone will help don't give up hope)
The wind will crack in wintertime
This bomb-blast lightning waltz
No spoken words, just a scream
(Africans being killed w/o reason, w/o warning)
Tonight we’ll build a bridge across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again
Tonight
(People all over will come out to help and Africa will be reborn.)
And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
To a light that’s in the distance
Oh, don't sorrow,
No don't weep for tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home
(Don't be sad, don't cry, for heaven is your real home.)
I know the song was written about something else but IMO I can see how it can strongly relate to the issues of Africa.
PS. Don't shoot me down, just an observation.
I was thinking that the words that were written in 83/84 really have something to do with the crisis going on all over in Africa today. The terror, heartache and the hope, will and dream of the African people.
And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow(time to move on for safety/food)
Across the fields of mourning
(the thousands of people dying there)
To a light that’s in the distance
(Hope for the future)
And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape
(just dream of a better future for the people of Africa)
Oh, on borderland we run
I'll be there, I'll be there
A high road
A high road out from here
They leave their homes or this life on earth with dignity)
The city walls are all pulled down
The dust a smokescreen all around
See faces ploughed like fields
That once gave no resistance
(all the fighting, dishonesty,corruption to people who can't fight back.)
And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill as the valley explodes
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of its own
(People are displaced due to the fighting & search of food, even the land gives up)
Oh, on borderland we run and still we run
We run and don't look back
I'll be there, I'll be there
Tonight, tonight
Trying to escape crisis, they run from town to town)
I'll be there tonight
I'll believe
I’ll be there so hold on
I’ll be there tonight
Tonight
(Someone will help don't give up hope)
The wind will crack in wintertime
This bomb-blast lightning waltz
No spoken words, just a scream
(Africans being killed w/o reason, w/o warning)
Tonight we’ll build a bridge across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again
Tonight
(People all over will come out to help and Africa will be reborn.)
And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
To a light that’s in the distance
Oh, don't sorrow,
No don't weep for tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home
(Don't be sad, don't cry, for heaven is your real home.)
I know the song was written about something else but IMO I can see how it can strongly relate to the issues of Africa.
PS. Don't shoot me down, just an observation.
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