Did you close your eyes or leave them wide To watch all the terror roll down their spines Did you listen good like they said you should Did you think it would be forever before your chains got loosed Hey hey Madiba the darkness had no place to keep you Hey hey Believer the promise and the pain of breakthrough Just a dreamer Akavumanga bembethela bembethela bembethela Akazange aguqe Did you curl your legs they went from brown to red Like some cursed amoeba a dirty floor your bed Did they call you Nelson with their tongues of poison The black man deceiver the prophet rejoicing Hey hey Madiba the darkness had no place to keep you Hey hey Believer the promise and the pain of breakthrough Just a dreamer Hey hey Madiba the darkness had no place to keep you Hey hey Believer the promise and the pain of breakthrough Just a dreamer Between the bite in the teeth of the law You came into our night with the dawn And the crusade we speared through your skin Your life for the trade to let loving begin Hey hey Madiba the darkness had no place to keep you Hey hey Believer the promise and the pain of breakthrough Just a dreamer Just a dreamer