Africa (reprise)
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A long time ago when I was a little boy
I remember coming to the revelation of not knowing who I was
I only knew who I was not
The reminders were many
Many images portrayed in black and white
And misery was the theme
Teachers telling us we'd never gonna go to college
They were wrong
I remember the sunken lines of pain on my father's brow
As he told me stories
The anger would fill my tiny body
Not wanting to be counted among the wretched of the earth
Yet for with all my mother taught me love
And my father, he showed me dignity
And I would always dream of a home far away
I'd always dream of the land of those who came before me
Africa
Africa
A home far away
The land of those who came before me
My ancestors call my name and I hear them in my soul
Calling out for me to come home
I can hear them in my soul
I had to set foot on her soil
To walk where I once walked before
To see my mirror image everywhere I go
To be healed
The sweet scent in the air
The breath of my mother
To hear my mother's tongue
It sounds all so vaguely familiar
Africa
A home far away
The land of those who came before me
My ancestors call my name and I feel it in my soul
Embracing me, their long lost child
They know I am home
In the land of my father
I ache to know my mother's tongue
But it's all so good
It's all good because it's all so strangely familiar
Why?
Because I am home
So many questions and so little time
To seek generations of answers
I am home at last
Africa
The land of untold wealth
That it seems that only the colonials can enjoy at this time
'Cause their children live in poverty
But that's okay
Such dignity I saw
People walking with their heads held high
As I walk through the streets of ghettos that you can only imagine
There's no ghetto here
Africa
A home far away
The land of those who came before me
My ancestors call my name and I hear them in my soul
Asking me about the others
I hear them in my soul
They can hear me weep
Years of despair
But they know I am home
She loves her long lost children
Such a beautiful home
A home so far away
I am healed
'Cause I am here
Africa
A home far away
The land of those who came before me
My ancestors call my name and I hear them in my soul
Calling out for me to come home
I can hear them in my soul just as plain as day
Calling out for me to come home
So I did
And I'm glad I did
I can go there by closing my eyes
A snapshot in the heart
A picture of the soul
For I am home
Anywhere I am
Africa
A home far away
The land of those who came before me
My ancestors call my name and I can hear them in my soul
Asking me about the others
We are lost
We need to know who we are
A land of untold wealth
That's been raped so much
But yet has so much to give
Much like the people that come from her soil
Yemanya calls out to me
She brings me within her bosom
And takes me up and down
The same way my fathers came
To a land they knew nothing of
But here we are
We're now home
Africa
A home far away
Here
Not so far