A journey from Africa to Europe.
JINZ
Where are you going black eyed son?
I'm going away from the ruins, not away from the sun
Whether you call it to flee poverty and misery
Whether you call it to seek education or security
And I hear you say: your case is economical
And the Geneva Convention says: it ought to be political
Well it doesn't matter what you call it or say
What I want is Asylum.
We are genial from the start
The genealogy of a star
Yet harm the genes in each other's hearts
Is it the genius of a guide
Who casts our genes to opposite sides
Like some genes on the side?
I crossed oceans and seas and thousands of rivers
From a thousand hills to a thousand skyscrapers
Went through many different cultures, through many different nations
From a boy in town, became data at the Immigration
If you haven't got a row with Mugabe you have got to lie
So had my fingers printed on a form, had my name underlined
Decided to walk on, never to cross the line
'Cos I just want to see gold; I don't want to see the blue line.
We are genial from the start
The genealogy of a star
Yet harm the genes in each other's hearts
Is it the genius of a guide
Who casts our genes to opposite sides
Like those genes on the other side?
Globalisation!
People to 'globalise' and multiply!
I look at our nations
I see people divide and cry.
In our grand-fathers' time, they died of plagues
In our modern times, we're fighting AIDS
But it's not enough we still have time
To make our time a 'war' time.
Don't be lunatics but do real politics
There's no time for kicks but to fight epidemics
But it's not enough we still have time
To make our time a 'war' time.
We were genial from the start
The genealogy of a star
Yet killed the genes in each other's hearts
Was it the genius of a guide
Who cast our genes to opposite sides
Like: "these genes, to that side?"
Like a genocide?
