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I have undone this distance so many times before
That it seems as if this life of mine is trapped between two shores
As the little ones grow older on the station platform
I shall undo that distance just once more
My brothers and my sisters have been scattered in the wind
Dressed in cheap horizons which have never quite fitted
And for centuries they've travelled on a pale phantom ship
Sailing for that shore which has no other shore
And they sing
Chore taname
Uma lashi khisi o
Iti chore taname
Uma lashi temba labo
Iti chore taname
Uma lashi khisi o
Iti chore taname
Uma lashi temba labo
Tanamะต
From their hands leap the buildings
From their shoulders bridgะตs fall
And they stand astride the mountains
And they pull out all the gold
And the songs of their fathers
Raise strange cities to the sky
Where they did not belong and could not belong
And they never knew why
And they share with the swallows
All their winters and their hopes
But often they get lost between
The highways and the stores
And the rivers of their homelands
Murmur in their dreams
They're shackled to that distance
Till heaven lets them in
And they sing
Chore taname
Uma lashi khisi o
Iti chore taname
Uma lashi temba labo
Iti chore taname
Uma lashi khisi o
Iti chore taname
Uma lashi temba labo
Tanamะต
Well they could not read and they could not write
And they could not spell their names
But they took this world in both hands
And they changed it all the same
And from whence they came and where they went
Nobody knows or guessed
Cast adrift between two worlds
They could still be heard to say
I have undone this distance so many times before
That it seems as if this life of mine is trapped between two shores
As the little ones grow older on the station platform
I shall undo that distance just once more
And I sing
Chore taname
Uma lashi khisi o
Iti chore taname
Uma lashi temba labo
Iti chore taname
Uma lashi khisi o
Iti chore taname
Uma lashi temba labo
Tanamะต