Johnny Clegg & Juluka, Sipho Mchunu - Universal Men Lyrics

I have undone this distance
So many times before
That it seems as if this life of mine
Is trapped between two shores
As the little ones grow older on the station platform
I shall undo that distance just once more

My brothers and my sisters
Have been scattered in the wind
Dressed in cheap horizons
Which have never quite fitted
And for centuries they've traveled on a pale phantom ship
Sailing for that shore which has no other shore

And they sing in Zulu

From their hands leap the buildings
From their shoulders bridges fall
And they stand astride the mountains
And they pull out all the gold
And the songs of their fathers
Raise strange cities to the sky
Where they did not belong and could not belong
And they never knew why

And they share with the swallows
All their winters and their hopes
But often they get lost between the highways and the stores
And the rivers of the homelands murmur in their dreams
They're shackled to that distance
Till heaven lets them in

And they sing in Zulu again

Well they could not read and they could not write
And they could not spell their names
But they took this world in both hands
And they changed it all the same
And from whence they came and where they went nobody knows or cares
Cast adrift between two worlds
They could still be heard to say

I have undone this distance
So many times before
That it seems as if this life of mine
Is trapped between two shores
As the little ones grow older on the station platform
I shall undo that distance just once more

And I sing in Zulu too