Thursday, February 11, 2010




 Your Time Will Come



Johnny Clegg and Savuka (1993)


WAQAMB' AMANGA MUS' UKUQAMB' AMANGA
[you were lying, do not tell lies]
WANGI QAMBELA AMANGA UFUNA UKUNGILAHLISA
ITHEMBA LAMI WEMAME!
[You told lies, trying to mislead me,
so that I would give up my faith and hope.]
WASHO NJALO! WATHI IKUSASA LETHU
SELIMNYAMA HAWU WASI QAMBELA AMANGA
[that is what you said -- you said that our future is hopeless,
our tomorrow is bleak, you were lying,
trying to mislead us]
NGEKE SIVUMA -- NGEKE SILAHLA ITEMBA
[No can do! we will never relinquish our faith]



Chorus:
KUZULONGA UKUTHI NINI? ASAZI!
[Everything will be all right --
It's just when this will be, we cannot know]
KUZOLONGA WENA 'MNGANE WAMI
[Everything will come right, I tell you friend]]
MASUKU LAHLA ITHEMBA LAKHO
[Do not throw away your hope]
MINA NGAPHA WENA NGAPHA SIZOYI BAMBA
[Me holding on one side, you holding on the other side
together we will pull through]
THINA NAWE, THINA NAWE
[you and me, you and me]

UMOYA WAMI ONAKELE
[my spirits are down]
WENA WEMTAKA ANTIE HAWU WANGI SHAYISA UVALO
[I say to you child of my aunt, you have caused me great fear]
WASHO NJALO! WATHI IKUSASA LETHU
SELIMNYAMA HAWU WASI QAMBELA AMANGA
[You told lies, trying to mislead me,
so that I would give up my faith and hope.]
WASHO NJALO! WATHI IKUSASA LETHU
SELIMNYAMA HAWU WASI QAMBELA AMANGA
[that is what you said -- you said that our future is hopeless,
our tomorrow is bleak, you were lying,
trying to mislead us]
NGEKE SIVUMA -- NGEKE SILAHLA ITEMBA
[No can do! we will never relinquish our faith]

Chorus:
KUZULONGA UKUTHI NINI? ASAZI!
[Everything will be all right --
It's just when this will be, we cannot know]
KUZOLONGA WENA 'MNGANE WAMI
[Everything will come right, I tell you friend]
KUZOLONGA 'MNGANE WAMI NGIYAKUTSHELA
[It will be all right my friend, I'm telling you]
WOZA WESIBINDI! UYAPHILISA UYABULALA
[come true courage, for it is you who gives
life and takes it away
MINA NGAPHA -- WENA NGAPHA SIZOYIBAMBA
[me on this side, you on the other,
we will hold it together]
UNGALALLELI LAW' AMANGA 'MNGANE WAMI
[don't listen to the lies of my compatriot]
OH SIZOBAHLULA THINA NAWA
[we will be victorious in the end, just you and me]
OH THINA NAMA
[just you and me]


I saw the Berlin Wall fall
I saw Mandela walk free
I saw a dream whose time has come
Change my history -- so keep on dreaming
Dream on dreamer, dreamer
In the best of times and in the worst of times
gotta keep looking at the skyline
not at a hole in the road
Your time will come, sister, your time will come
nobody's gonna rush history, we have to ease it along
-- just ease it along

2 comments:

ronnie said...

Beautiful. I've been a fan of the group since they were Johnny Clegg and Juluka. I could sing every one of their Zulu songs phonetically. (Probably very badly.) Amazing, important music.

Mike said...

If I hadn't lived within TV range of Canada, I would never have heard of them. But I saw them on Montreal's noon show when he was playing the Spectrum and was absolutely blown away.

Props to your country for caring about stuff that matters.