Guiding Star

Vusi Mahlasela Guiding Star Lyrics
1.Jabula

Yegele ukukhuluna ngenhliziyo?
khululeka opholisi umoyo?
Lalela umgculo kulapho ke uzothola in kululeko
Musa uku dembesela?
Suguma ushaye twalaza?
Noma lisixathamiya ushaye gumboots?
Shaya Madiba dance?
Uzo thola kujabula?
Kugiya ingkululeko?
Ohlala ujubula njalo ma uphila nge ngoma
Yegu kukhuluma ngenhliziyo ?
kululeka ophosili umoya?
Lalela umculo kulapho ke?
Uzothola ukududuzeka
Musa uku dembesela?
Suguma ushaye twalaza?
Noma lisixathamiya ushaye gumboots?
Shaya madiba dance?
Uzo thola Kujabula


2.Heaven In My Heart

I have traveled many roads
A journey marked by loss and pain
Searching for that moment in life
To still the beating of a restless heart

And when you arrived in this world
And turned towards the voice
Looking at me with those beautiful eyes
I kissed your soft young lips
And my journey was complete

My journey was complete
My journey was complete

Chorus:
You are the happiness that brought me life
This love for you
Burning though the corridors of my life
You are the heaven in my heart
You are the heaven in my heart

I have suffered many wounds
Turned away from paradise's door
Torn the troubled times
Betrayed by love in love and war

But when you came into this world
Some ancient force came alive in me
I was a link in a chain
Stretching back in time

I held you in the dawns first light
And my journey was complete
My journey was complete
My journey was complete

(Chorus)
Mamu yak u thanda
Babu yak u thanda
Mamu yak u thanda
Babu yak u thanda


3.Moleko

Jonana ke bone mohlolo
Tokoloshe moleko omoholo
Tokoloshe s kganna koloi
E tsamaya le nguwanana
Yonna nywanana apere secgepi

Tokoloshe s tsuba zolo
Tokoloshe s opela ka molodi ere

Tokoloshe moleko omoholo
Tokoloshe moleko omoholo

Tokoloshe e kganna koloi
E tsamaya le ngwanana

Jonna ngwanana apere secgepi
Tokoshe e tsuba zolo
Yonna moleko omoholo
Moleko omholo


4.Chamber Of Justice

I have been to a place
Where criminals are given awards
And politicians slide through revolving doors
Where talk of the rule of law
Becomes a tool in tug of war
And leaders become bidders in the stock exchange
At the expense of the poor

I've been to a place where they send people to the moon
While others become prophets of doom
A place where every omen warns
Of the coming counter-storm
But still the gluttons gorge, dull and swinish-eyed,
Ignore the rising tide

I have seen selfishness blind and ignorant
And greediness become the passion of crime
Humanity! Humanity!
The truth is still to be challenged
By all who seek justice

I have been to a place
Where the golden calf rules
And the poor pay more
While the rich have it all
Where truth is scourged
And honesty purged
And silence rules behind every door

Foundations crumble
And in the distance, I hear rumbling
The fall of Rome
Humanity! Humanity!
The truth is still to be challenged
By all who seek justice


5.Tibidi Waka

Mapule seithati sa mefelelo
Mapule seithati sa mefelelo

Moleta wa maithese
Moleta wa maithese

Seithati saka samafelelo
Ofaketse meruka
O swanelwa ke meruka
Ebile O retwa le ke bakgalabe

Moleta wa maithese
Moleta wa maithese

Tibidi waka le bone
Tibidi waka le bone mo!

Mapule seithathi sa mafelela
Lebone laka la mafelelo

Moleta wa maithese
Moleta wa maithese

O fakatse meruka
O swanelwa ke meruka

Seipone sa ka samafelelo
Mapule seithati sa mafelelo
Moleta wa maithese
Moleta wa maithese

Dibidi waka le bone
Dibidi waka le bone mo.

Mase bot sana waka wa go betlwa gabotse
Botse bots eke yo mmotse
Go feta lentsu le la botse

Mmsebotsana owe
Mmsebtosana
Sethati sa ka sa mafelelo owe

Moleta wa maithese
Lyoo moleta wa maithese

Dibidi wa ka lebone
Dibidi wa ka lebone mo
Dibidi wa ke lebone
Dibidi wa ka lebone mo


6.Everytime

Everytime you're in my dream
I close my eyes
And you're there
Standing in a circle of stones
Storm clouds building up in the sky

Ripe fruit splits in the sun
Thunder rolls rainstorm comes
Can hardly bear this ecstasy
This strange hold you have on me

Chorus:
Everytime I see the red sun
Fall in an African sky
You're always on my mind/everytime
Spinning me round in time/everytime

Every time I try to picture you
Beneath those cold northern skies
I see you walking by the River Lekwa
Your beauty burns the dusk like fire

Sacred rites from our sun-drunk days
Feel the power coming through
Hear flowing down my shivering limbs
Pulling my mind across the world
Across to you

(chorus)

Last light fades away
Darkness brings no comfort for my memories in dreams
I call you name
In dreams I read out and touch you
Oh, you already know
So don't turn away
Or make me explain
How the wind turns to steel
Cold hard and blue
When I'm away from you

You're always on my mind/everytime
Spinning me round in time/everytime
Everytime
You're always on my mind/everytime
Spinning me round in time/everytime
Everytime (x4)

Heat flowing down my shivering limbs
Pulling my mind across the sky to you


7.Sower Of Words

The last time we heard about you
It was said that you were often seen crawling
From one shebeen to the next in the ghetto

Searching for pieces of poetry
In the eyes of foul-mouthed people
Who gurple swear words with beer
And spit at places of worship

And then it was said you later law alone
In chris hani baragwanath hospital
Counting your last words on earth
You were so alone that the only company by your bedside
Was the whiteness of death

So alone/brother of black kind (x4)

Child of bamadingoane
Sower of words
Reaper of silence
Sower of comradeship
Reaper of hyprocrites

Now tell me
In what realm of Africa are we at this point?
Africa the beginning, or Africa the ending?

Only you, the one who resides above
Knows for sure what has become of us
In the ghetto, in the ghetto
You were so alone that the only company
By your bedside was the whiteness of death

So alone/brother of black kind (x4)


8.Ntombi Mbali

Aowee nayi intombi madoda sengithi ngi ya ishela
Ngizwa nigshawa luwalo
Ngizwa nigshawa luwalo

Nigshawa luwalo
Se ngizo sitholaphi isibindi soguthi ngishele lemtombi
Bathi umshele agana ngepe
Bathi umshele agana ngepe

Pharamisa inyao dolo la Mavuso
Uyo ishela lentombi

(chorus)
Awu ze nayo letombi
Nayo letombi ya mbali (x4)


9.River Jordan

Mother mother
I saw you cross the river Jordan
Mother mamma waam
I've been listening to you
So close and yet so far away

I've never stopped hearing your words
Since that Easter morning
It is now very clear
That the meaning of your last wish for me
Revealed my destiny

Mother mother
I saw you cross the river Jordan
With the most positive courage
When they washed your feet
Your last communion I was there
You fell down among us with a smile
And lay looking up
With the look of another world

You departed surrounded by the singing
And the praises of the hallelujia
Some envied your departure
Some came to offer what ever little
Comfort they could give


10.Song For Thandi

Back home from exile
She was arrested
Six months pregnant
They took her to a field
And made her dig with her bare hands
For the weapons
She knew nothing about

And when she found nothing
They took her back to the prison cell
And they gave her a gun, and they said
Take it, it's loaded, kill yourself
Like a soldier
And end your miseries

She looked at the gun and she though, okay
All my tomorrows will be just like today
Until I break or I die either way
The end has come
So she picked up the gun
Metal was cool against her head
Telling herself she'd be better off dead
When suddenly

She felt a baby kicking inside

It was good to be alive
And she started to sing


11.Mighty River

I was watching, I was waiting
For a sign
I was waiting
For voices from the sky
In the desert I was wandering
Oh hard and stony ground
When I came upon a rive
That was rolling homeward bound

River, might river
Mighty river, flowing down

So I waded in that river
And lay me down
In the cool
Water washing over me
Wash the blood off of my hands
Help me blinded hear to see
Ask the holy ghosts to come and
Drive the demons out of me

River, might river
Rolling down
Rolling home
To where the water meets the sky
Burdened with my sins
Burdened with my sorrows
Take the darkness of my past
Give me hope for new tomorrow

River, might river
Rolling down
Rolling home
To where the water meets the sky
Let the scales fall from my eyes
Heal the wounds I made in anger
Take my price and jealousy
Wash me clean in your mercy

River, might river/might river, rolling down


12.Thula Mama

Through the mist of tears in your eyes
On my childhood memory
I know the truth in your smile
I know the truth in your smile
Piercing through the gloom of my ignorance

There is mama lying down sleeping
Very ill and heart crying
Wondering wondering wondering
What is this world coming to.

Is it right
That such small children must feed for themselves

Is it right
Mothers struggling in this uncertain world

Is it right
Heaping trouble on an old lady's head

Is it right?
I'm asking you dammit!!!

Chorus:
Thula mama thula mama
Thula mama thula mama
Tomorrow it's gonna be better
Tomorrow it's gonna be better
Na hi ronama
Na hi ronama
Thula don't cry
Thula mama
Thula mama


13.Our Sand

In your trance your dance
Recalls and records
The footprints of a painful history
Body shaking
You try to assemble thoughts
Of a raging memory

And your feet stand hard
On the Kalahari sand

In your dust, your stones
We see the ghostly shadows
Of a vanished world

Hallucinating

You try
To recover dreams
Of gods and ancient miracles

And your feet stand hard
On the Kalahari sand

Your land etching and weaving
Patterns of pain
Through your trance
Your dance

I am trapped in your membrane of memories
I hear your silent voice
Through your trance
Your dance, your trance

And I hear you say
When will you find your season of dreams
When will your sand your land be once
Again surrounded by the landscapes of love

Through your trance
Your dance


14.Tonti

Ntonti ngwana tate
E tla re yo itebatsa tsa bosuana
Re ye khwiting ya noka lehlakeneng
Re yo theetsa bo mmakwele balla

Balla lehlakaneng
Bare areyeng mapatlelong

Balla lehlakaneng
Bare areyeng kua matalelong

Ntonti ngwana tate
E tla reye khweleng ya maoto
Re yo bogela bothakga bja sebjana sa lefatshe sa 2010

Golla divuvuzela
Dilla mapathelong
Golla divuvuzela
Dilla mapathelong

Otla kwa bare show me your number
Baittiya shibobo ka mo
Sithende ka mo
Baittiya shibobo ka mo
Tsamaya

Mmuso setijhaba sa Afrika borwa
Phafogang nako e fihile
Lokisang madulo le mabala
Lokisang ditsela le dinamelwa

Tonti ashi 2010
Beang shiba le dikgoba tsa mesomo
Re tlelo go jam pa mpolaye
Re tle rero tilala mphekole
Moeng e tla ka gesso re tle re je ka wena

Re tle rere tilala mphekole
Moeng e tla ka gesso re tle re je ka wena

Tibidi wa ka lebone mo


15.Susana

Tsatsi motes moshate
Ha ka hoopla Susana we


16.Pata Pata