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U Ya Memeza (We Are The Morning)

from Ignition: Arson Anthems by Manko

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The melody is from a song I used to perform with my gospel choir in Lesotho, Bakhetiloena ke Morena, and hopefully they're still performing it without me somewhere. The lyrics in English are my own because nobody I know speaks Sesotho. And this is just a demo for Mankind - the song really needs lots of voices to truly work right.

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And in the evening we will go weaving between the craters
And we'll come dancing among the ashes of the invaders
And in the gloaming we will go roaming between the pylons
And by the twilight you will be my light, my muse of silence

We are the eyes on that dim horizon where dawn is coming
We are the rumor that reaches you more as we come drumming
And in my palm is this solemn promise, the watchman's warning
That as resistance dies in the distance, we are the morning.

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from Ignition: Arson Anthems, track released March 23, 2014

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