《No Rope as Long as Time》歌词

[00:00:00] 作曲: Skaith

[00:00:36] Old Afrikaner farmer on the terrace of his home

[00:00:42] Sits gently in his rocking chair, gazing at this land he owns.

[00:00:48] There he sees his memories and there his past

[00:00:54] There he smiles his grim smile, strokes his gun, swears he'll make it last.

[00:01:01] Someone brings the whisky, someone serves the meal

[00:01:06] Like the someone in the township, in the mine and in the fields.

[00:01:13] Someone at the graveyard, someone with their tears

[00:01:18] Someone who can't forget the freedom lost these 100 years.

[00:01:24] Old man, you can boost about the gun that's by your bed

[00:01:29] Old man, you can tell me how you're good for all your kaffirs yet

[00:01:34] And your guns can fire, and your prisons fill

[00:01:39] And you've yards of rope for hanging still

[00:01:42] But your guns can shoot and never hit the sky

[00:01:52] And there's no rope as long as time.

[00:02:12] Mandela in the prison, Biko in the ground

[00:02:20] Sharpeville and Soweto voices silenced till the end of time.

[00:02:25] Freedom don't come easy, don't come bloodless, don't come fast

[00:02:30] But in the hearts of the countless people

[00:02:34] No pass law's gonna stop us pass.

[00:03:00] Sometimes he'll talk of reasons, economy and cause

[00:03:06] Sometimes he'll even talk of changes

[00:03:09] Though he clasps the gun and talks of laws.

[00:03:13] But power ain't this old man's gift

[00:03:16] And freedom's no reform

[00:03:18] The old man made the history and the history's made of wars.