Rukuvhute (feat. Vusa Mkhaya)

Chiripo chinondisunganidza neivhu rababa Africa

Nezuro, nhasi, mangwana, nekumhepo

Zvino topinda mumasango kure nerukuvhute

Makatigura nayo nhamo, ko nhaimi vakuruwe

Zvatinosangana nazvo, zvimwe hazvibvunzwe

Musha wamera meno, tapararira kwose

I left a journal by the road

Weathered by the storms

Filled with letters that I wrote

For those severed from their homes

To lands that are unknown

Fences, razors, wires on

Sentries at the entrances to whatever lies beyond

For centuries scorned

So the path is laid with thorns

We navigate across this globe subject to controls

But we trudging on despite the fatigue clutching these bones

It's more than dust that was involved when we were formed

It was fire and resolve

The power to absorb

The pressure and depression cause we are stronger than we know

But I wonder if the ancestors hear us when we call

Cause we strayed from the lands where they died to be recalled

Far from the shrines where the elders would speak to God

Far from the lines that they left us when we were robbed

And the drums where we danced and our spirits were warmed

And the soils where they planted our umbilical cords

Zvino topinda mumasango kure nerukuvhute

Makatigura nayo nhamo, ko nhaimi vakuruwe

Zvatinosangana nazvo, zvimwe hazvibvunzwe

Musha wamera meno, tapararira kwose

Ukuhamba yikubona

Batsho Abadala

Sashiya imizi yabo baba

Sashiya imizi yabo mama

Safik' emazweni khashana

Sabona safund' imikhuba yabo

Kodw' ayikho indawo efana lase khaya

Every path is a catalyst for change

There's growth in the steps and there's strength in mastering the pain

In the process became broken, a part of you remains

Yet hoping to be restored to wholeness once again

Plodding through the hardest of terrains

Conscious of the strain

Of being estranged from where you came

Uncertainty contained in the refrain that we sang

To the rhythm of the march and pace we maintained

As children, used to travel on the backs of our mothers

Now we flying with the wings of the prayers that they utter

Hoping that there's a prize for the days when we suffered

The warriors in us preparing to claim and discover

Zvino topinda mumasango kure nerukuvhute

Kure kure

Makatigura nayo nhamo, ko nhaimi vakuruwe

Nhaimi vakuru kani

Zvatinosangana nazvo, zvimwe hazvibvunzwe

Ko ungabvunze ani

Musha wamera meno, taparira kwese

Honai

Zvino topinda mumasango kure nerukuvhute

Kure kure

Makatigura nayo nhamo, ko nhaimi vakuruwe

Nhaimi vakuru kani

Zvatinosangana nazvo, zvimwe hazvibvunzwe

Ko ungabvunze ani

Musha wamera meno, taparira kwese

Honai