Album: Africa's Not For Sissies

Africa's Not For Sissies | Calling | Settler | Elliot
Geneology | Sharp | Chicken Run | Muse | Walking

1. Africa's Not for Sissies
 
Well I dunno ‘bout you……Feel like I’m living in a zoo
I don’t go out anymore
I just sit by my TV……..With my poodle Evie
And we bolt up the door
I’m an ordinary man…….I gotta wife and a life to keep
Yes I’m an ordinary man……But I take a gun to bed every night when I sleep
Well my friend Stan……They hi-jacked his van
Just the other day
Put a gun up his nose……Told him to take off his clothes
Then they drove away
Well well I’m an ordinary man…I got a wife and a life to keep
Yeh I’m an ordinary man….but I think I’ll go Australia maybe raise some sheep
 
CHORUS:          
Packed up and ready to go
Scared shitless and I want you to know
I can’t stay……….finally see
That Africa……..  is not for sissies (twice)
Yebo yes
 
Well I dunno ‘bout you’s……..But when I reads the news
I get desensitized
I hear sirens in the night……..They bring mefear and fright
They leave me traumatized
Well I’m an ordinary man………I gotta wife and a life to keep
Yes I’m an ordinary man……. I keep the light on every night when I sleep
You know the woman next door…..They found her lying
Lying on the kitchen floor
She’d been dead for days……The cops came and took her aways
They put tape on her door
Well I’m an ordinary man……I gotta life and a wife to keep
Yeh I’m an ordinary man…….I think I’ll go Australia  watch the kangaroos leap
 
CHORUS…………………”tata ma chance”
 
Well now if only we could……Fortify the neighborhood
With a wall so high
Then we’d always be knowing….just who the hell’s coming and going
Maybe crime would die
Well I’m an ordinary man……….I gotta wife and a life to keep
 I’m an ordinary man….. I take six guard dogs to bed everynight when I sleep
Ah now you might say…….that I just dream away
Like some Utopian fool
That I don’t understand…….maybe Man must kill Man
Its like some kinda jungle rule
Well I’m an ordinary man…..I gotta wife and a life and a cat
I’m an ordinary man……but I think I go Australia maybe never come back hey
 
CHORUS………………….”please don’t go”
 
Lyrics: Syd Kitchen
Published: Kitchen Kulture
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2.Calling

You spin your lies like a thief spins his sickness
You beat your chest with pride
You turn your anger on the weak and the helpless
You say its justified
I’m calling …….on you……… (twice)
Calling out……calling out like a fire raging to the sky
Calling out……calling out like an unborn child asking why
I’m calling         on you………(twice)
 
CHORUS:                    
Right now
I’m in a nerve at the end of your foot
I’m in the heart of the fish that you’ve hooked
I’m in the eyes of all bull-dozed trees
I’m in the lungs of the oil-soaked seas
I’m in the air that we breathe
And I’m calling……..calling
 
You spit your hate like a snake with such quickness
You poison everything
You sing your song of the brave and the fearless
Stand up lets hear you sing
I’m calling…….on you………(twice)
Calling out……calling out like thunder in the sky
Calling out.......calling to the faceless ones who know, who know why
I’m calling…….on you,,,,,,,,,,,(twice)
 
CHORUS
 
Lyrics: Syd Kitchen
Published: Kitchen Kulture
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3. Settler
 
My forefather came from across the sea
He came in a wooden boat with sails
He had in his heart a need to be free
Free of a Motherland that was dying
And all my life I’ve been lost in his history
All my life I’ve felt so alone
Now here I am, you are, each in Afrika
You are my brother this is my home
 
CHORUS:
I offer love
I ask redemption
I offer all
I ask no question
I sing this loud
no hesitation
For a line is drawn
And a road is found
And a beacon shines
Light on the ground
There’s a past that’s dead
There’s a future….up ahead
 
My forefather he sits inside my soul
I feel his pain and his anger
I hear him crying, see him tied to a pole
He can’t go nowhere, but he’s trying
And all my life I’ve lived with his madness
All my life I’ve known he was wrong
Now here I am, you are, each in Afrika
We are brothers we both belong
 
CHORUS………….(twice)

Lyrics: Syd Kitchen
Published: Kitchen Kulture
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4. Elliot
 
Elliot man he got a light in his eye
He live in a valley where the eagles fly
He built his house with thatch and reeds
He’s a natural man with basic needs
He rise early and he walk around
He can feel a pulse, he can hear a sound
He one with the Earth, she set him free
He got more friends than a leaf on a tree
 
CHORUS:
Its so amazing………living in paradise
Its so amazing………living in paradise
Its so amazing………living in paradise
It won’t be long………we’ll all be there
It won’t be long………we’ll all be there
 
 
Elliot man he got a beautiful wife
They share their love, they share their life
She bear children and they grow up strong
All giggles and joy when Elliot sing them a song
He teach them everything, he teach them true
He show them that love will always pull you through
They one with the Earth, no question why
They got more friends than a star in the sky
 
CHORUS
 
Elliot man he got a light in his life
He fear no danger, he fear no strife
Strong in purpose he stand up tall
He move like a giant where other creatures crawl
He rise early and he walk up the mountain
Take in water from a crystal fountain
He one with the Earth, she fills his hand
He got more friends than a grain of sand
 
CHORUS

Lyrics: Syd Kitchen
Published: Kitchen Kulture
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5. Geneology

Was it something I should’ve said?
Was it something I should’ve done?
Was it something I should’ve read?
Was it something I should’ve known?
 
Does it matter I didn’t speak?
Does it matter I didn’t cry?
Does it matter I didn’t cheat?
Does it matter I didn’t lie?
 
CHORUS:
All fall down……..on the floor
All fall down……..like before
Matter not……….what the cost
Matter not……….what the loss
 
Was it something I should’ve seen?
Was it something I should’ve felt
Was it somewhere I should’ve been?
Was it somewhere I should’ve knelt?
Does it matter I have no “I”?
Does it matter I have no choice?
Does it matter I cannot cry”
Does it matter I have no choice?
 
CHORUS

Lyrics: Syd Kitchen
Published: Kitchen Kulture
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6. Thekweni - Instrumental

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7. Sharp
 
Me on the street
In a kool new suit
Shiny hair, shiny feet
Feeling cute
I hear the town hall chime
Its just gone eight
I’m waiting here outa my mind
Jeez you’re twenty hours
 
CHORUS:
Where are you darling?
Where are you sweetie?
Where are you luscious?
Where are you cutie?
Why you no show-show?
Why I go solo?
Why you no show-show …………for me?

Now come policeman
With stick and gun
He tell me “up against the wall asshole
Don’t you try to run”
I say “no! no!
I’s a peaceful man”
He say me “shut your mouth, and mind your head”
And he threw me in the van
 
CHORUS

Now me in chains
And I gets one call
I phone you “darling please
You rescue me and I’ll love you evermore”
And soon you come
And you pay the bail
I grab my coat, hug that cop
Oh, and I high-tail out that jail
 
CHORUS
Hello my darling
Hello my sweetie
Hello my luscious
Hello my cutie
Thank you my darling
You make my tail wag
You make me zig-zag………like dis
 
Lyrics: Syd Kitchen
Published: Kitchen Kulture
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8. Chicken Run
 
Did I hear you say
he up’d and ran away
with all his dreams
stuffed in the pockets of his jeans
looked out on hills of hope
saw life through a telescope
and as those leaves were falling
he took off, took off with the changing wind
and he walked out, walked out at the flick of a switch
pulled by, pulled by the strings of his heart
 
CHORUS:
What you gonna do brother?
When it all comes down
Bet you’re gonna be burying your head in the ground
Where you gonna be sister?
When the ship comes in
Bet you’re gonna be huddled with your grin
Someone who tried
Someone who stayed
You could’ve taken a ride……on the Chicken Run
 
Now he’d been told
the streets were lined with gold
opportunity
brought a tremble to his knees
his conscience pricked a bit
perhaps the shoe would never fit
and as those leaves were falling
he took off, took off with the changing wind
and he walked out, walked out at the flick of a switch
pulled by, pulled by the strings of his heart
 
CHORUS
 
Maybe its not fair
for us to punch the air
to criticize
for the truth could be the lies
what does a man go through
when facing what he has to?
Sometimes when the leaves start falling
we take off, take off with the changing wind
and we walk out, walk out at the flick of a switch
pulled by, pulled by the strings of our hearts
 
CHORUS…………(twice)

Lyrics: Syd Kitchen
Published: Kitchen Kulture
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9. Muse
 
Stand up for our time is calling
Stand up all the walls are falling
Everywhere, its in the air
This talk of share in everyone’s life
Stand up for the tide is turned
Stand up this is what we’ve earned
All those years
Choked in fears
Now no more tears
Look at your life and
Say……… hey!…………….(repeat four times)
 
 
Stand up throw your arms wide open
Stand up all the chains are broken
So many flags, in the wind they fly
They tease, they taunt, they baffle my eye
Stand up it’s a new beginning
Stand up we’re already winning
Bring your love
Share this dream
We’ll throw a party
Like they’ve never seen and
Say……….hey!……………(repeat four times)
 
 
Stand up for our time is now
Stand up we all made it somehow
Everywhere, its in the air
A freedom won in everyone’s life
Stand up least the tide subside
Stand up we’ve got nothing to hide
All those years
Choked in fears
Now no more tears
Look at your life and
Say……….hey!………….(repeat four times)
 
Lyrics: Syd Kitchen
Published: Kitchen Kulture
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10. Walking
 
Its all clear to me now
Its like a movie that I re-run in my mind
Something I can turn to
When I’m lost and can’t be found
A memory of a time I once knew
I made it all on my own
I took the pieces that were left lying on the floor
Put them all together
Then I hung it behind my door
A remnant from a time I once new
 
CHORUS:
and all the while there was make-believe
with a face at the glass
warm eyes, hid their lies in silence
fell down and I bumped my knee
but I got up to dance
with the sound of a million voices in the distance calling
I go walking…………..yeh  yeh
 
Wherever I may go
You’ll be there with me in the corner of my heart
Someone I can turn to
When I’m lost and torn apart
A memory of a time I once knew
And whoever I may know
You’ll be there with me in the softness of her skin
A tattoo on my mind
That hates the state I’m in
A memory of a time I once knew
 
CHORUS
 
Its all clear to me now
Its like a footprint in the history of my life
Something I can turn to
When I’m lost and full of strife
A memory of a time I once knew
And I made it all for me
I took the pieces that were left lying on the floor
Gave them wings to fly
And then they took off out the door
A remnant from a time I once knew
 
CHORUS

Lyrics: Syd Kitchen
Published: Kitchen Kulture
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