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David Murray
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Africa
Africa
Africa
Go back black
See yourself
Touch yourself
Know yourself
Africa
Go back world, world, world
See yourself
Touch yourself
Know yourself
Be yourself
Ancient mighty, mighty Africa
Creator of the human being
Of music, of dance, of drama, of the city
Africa
See yourself
Touch yourself
Go back black
Go back black
Go back black
Touch yourself
See yourself
Know yourself
How'd I get here on my back in the dark?
With the wind and the water rushing through my ears
How did I get here in the dark?
My brother the king, my brother the king sold me to the ghost
When you put your hand on your sister and made her a slave
When you put your hand on your brother and made him a slave
Africa, Africa
Watch out
Watch out Africa
Watch out for the ghost
Watch out for the ghost, Africa
The ghost gonna get you, Africa
At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
There's a railroad made of human bones
Watch out Africa
Watch out Africa, the ghost gonna get you, the ghost gonna get you
Watch out Africa
How did I get here on my back?
How did I get here on my back in the dark with
The wind and the water blowing through my ears?
Gliding through the valley
Sunday's coldness, a hole in summer
A red dark wall pasted over with notes
But picture the temps dewwalking
Clean among black waves
Picture a blinding whiteness
Like Cab Calloway's shoes
The nigga computers brutally reporting
Ghosts ahead
Ghosts ahead
Who are cannibals
Ghosts ahead
Ghosts ahead
The nigga computers brutally reporting
Ghosts ahead
Who are cannibals
We ponder for the bop-trillionth time
The madness of the gods
Africa
Africa
So the king
Sold the farmer
To the ghost
The ghost
Ghost
Watch out for the ghost
The ghost'll get you
The ghost, ghost
Watch out for the ghost
In bitter darkness
Screams
Sharpness of smells
And seas black voice
Wails in the death-filled darkness
Their bodies diseased
Beneath intoxicated floors
A sea-shudder of rage turned
To blood
Blue blood and bone
Into which blueness is a terror
Massacre, torture
An original western holocaust
Slavery
We were slaves
Slaves
Slaves
Slaves
They threw our lives away
Slaves
Beneath the violent philosophy
Of primitive cannibals
Primitive, violent, steam-driven cannibals
At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
There's a railroad
Made of human bones
Black eyes lead