Qkumba Zoo - Cloud eyes
Cloud eyes
picture me tonight
hold me in the waters of your oldest feeling
cloud eyes in the starlight
touch me inside and breathe me in to find your healing
Cloud eyes has a way of drowning even as she breathes
and in her lungs "I am the sea"
she waits until my fear has whispered softly down to sleep and
in her dreams, she swims through me
I'm scared, so you're scared, so what fear has ever mattered anyway?
I'm scared, so you're scared, so what fear has ever mattered, mattered?
Cloud eyes in a silver sky
where the moon flies like a paraglider lost in your mind
cloud eyes on a dream flight
across the moon into the darkside
hold me
touch me
fill me
heal me
let me feel the mist that flows in me
and in your dreams mattered?
I'm scared, so you're scared, so what fear has ever mattered anyway?
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Qkumba Zoo - Weeping (Anti-Racism)
I knew a man
Who lived in fear
It was huge, it was angry it was drawing near
Behind his house, a secret place
Was the shadow of the demon he could never face
He built a wall of steel and flame
And men with guns to keep it tame
Then standing back he made it plain
That the nightmare would never ever rise again
But the fear the fire and the guns remained
It doesn't matter now
It's over anyhow
He tells the world that it's sleeping
But as the night came round, I heard its lowly sound
It wasn't roaring, it was weeping
And then one day the neighbors came
They were curious to know about the smoke and flame
They stood around outside the wall
But of course there was nothing to be heard at all
"My friends," he said, "we've reached our goal, The threat is under firm control
As long as peace and order reign
I'll be damned if i can see a reason to explain
Why the fear and the fire and the guns remain"
It doesn't matter now
It's over anyhow
He tells the world that it's sleeping
But as the night came round, I heard its lowly sound
It wasn't roaring, it was weeping
Is there a light, can you feel the light shine ?
I think i've find a way through
(Yes I found a way through)
I know things have changed but the fear remained in me
Till I touched the light in you
It doesn't matter now
It's over anyhow
He tells the world that it's sleeping
But as the night came round, I heard its lowly sound
It wasn't roaring, it was weeping
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Qkumba Zoo - "The Fire Inside"
Sitting on the edge of the wishing well
Watching ripples from my tears as they fell
I'm just not good enough
I don't know how to be
I don't know what to say
I don't know how to look
I don't know what I have to give
No more to say
The fire inside reflects in me
Fire inside, I can't see it, I say
The fire inside reflects in me
Blow on it, let it grow, let it grow
I blew, I blew
It starts to glow
The fire grew brighter, I began to see
Shapes in the darkness inside of me
The water said: Dive in, dive in!
I don't know how to swim
The water said:
Dive in, dive down, drink deep, drink deep in me
You will remember how to breathe
I plunged
I drank and sucked the water into my lungs
The words began to come
The fire not quenched burned brighter still
And words came from somewhere
No meanings that my mind knew
But so many meanings from my heart
My body began to dance in a way that I'd never seen anyone dance
And my voice began to chant, chant...
Umbaneyo, umbadayo, umbahena...
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