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  • The boy rolls the hoop past the barricade
  • Pushing it fast with a stick that he made from a coathanger
  • The hoop is a wheel of rusted steel from a junkyard bicycle
  • The girl on the corner plays the guitar
  • It's a petrol can with strings of wire
  • She sings a song from the tribal days
  • But the words are new -- she sings "amandla."
  • Blond surfers on white sandy beaches
  • Wait for the perfect wave
  • The sky has no clouds at sunset they go home
  • The signs say no dogs or natives allowed
  • Nervous white boys in combat gear
  • Speed through the township in armored trucks
  • People scatter but the soldiers run them down
  • Kick them until blood runs from their mouths
  • Crossroads
  • We are diamonds of anger we are brilliant gold
  • Every blow makes us stronger the chain cannot hold
  • We are rocks against tear gas we are songs against guns
  • We are life against terror we have already won.
  • The old woman waits for the broken down bus
  • To take her from this shantytown of tin and paper
  • No toilet no running water
  • The street is already hot
  • She rides to the white homes of Johannesburg
  • To mop the kitchen tile polish the silver
  • Wipe the babies' bottoms she must leave by nightfall.
  • Sixteen on trial for plotting revolution
  • Charged with singing songs of freedom
  • Or being present when these songs were sung
  • Or writing pamphlets or speaking at meetings
  • Botha tells the whites what they want to hear
  • The only votes he needs are theirs
  • Crazed with their backs to the sea
  • Drunk with the fear of retribution.
  • Crossroads
  • We are diamonds of anger we are brilliant gold
  • Every blow makes us stronger the chain cannot hold
  • We are rocks against tear gas we are songs against guns
  • We are life against terror we have already won.
  • Black babies white babies still reach for each other
  • Fingers stretching from a passing pram
  • Eyes amazed and smiling through doors and broken windows
  • Straining to touch
  • Behind the silence of Pollsmoor Prison
  • Nelson Mandela reads the international press
  • Receives foreign visitors
  • The chief in exile, the lion at bay
  • Give up violence say the key-jangling jackals
  • He answers let those who shoot my people
  • Beat with whips torture with electrodes
  • Let these renounce violence and I will walk free.
  • Teenagers born since he was imprisoned
  • Hear his voice though they have never seen him
  • Feel the tremor of righteous fury
  • A vision burning a tidal wave coming
  • New leaders born in the schoolyards and churches
  • Forged in the mines singing at funerals
  • Turning to block the blow as it's falling
  • Seizing the whiphand standing rejoicing
  • Crossroads
  • We are diamonds of anger we are brilliant gold
  • Every blow makes us stronger the chain cannot hold
  • We are rocks against tear gas we are songs against guns
  • We are life against terror we have already won.
  • We are life against terror we have already won

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