Wake Up

See these children Hide beneath the wall Staring with starving eyes Look at these children Fighting and fall Hiding their selves in disguise Cause fighting’s going on Far too long An endless sea of tears Children are marching on Don’t know what they’re dying for What’s your secret Mother Africa Beautiful and still so violent Fruits of nature You could have it all Still you get nothing out of it Why don’t you throw away All the pain of slavery and greed Cause when the sun comes up All you see Are your possibilities Wake up These chances won’t wait long It’s all up to us Together We can get what we need And I know you can’t ignore that forever Wake up These chances won’t wait long It’s all up to us So tired of being judged by the color of our skin We all wanna live in dignity From Cape Town to Johannesburg From Durban to Pretoria From Barberton to Robertson East to West and North to South There’s a wave across the land Stop the fighting now! We want to be free Wake up These chances won’t wait long It’s all up to us Together We can get what we need And I know you can’t ignore that forever Wake up These chances won’t wait long It’s all up to us Wake up These chances won’t wait long It’s all up to us Together We can get what we need And I know you can’t ignore that forever Wake up These chances won’t wait long It’s all up to us