Border Wars ft. Raven Duchess Lyrics

Don't need no border wars

War we no want

Don't need no border wars

War we no want

As I cry out to my fore-fathers and five mothers

And the other half of my tribe with nine others

Searching on this surface crossing borders seeking covers

Switching buses while I'm catching evil stares from my brothers

We live a complex reality that we been sentenced

We been blood ever since before independence

The welcome that you giving to me is unexpected

I'm perplexed by the delivery within the message like

Hey wena mtwana are you a kwerekwere

Your accente sound very extraordinary

I don't care who your great great grandmother she marry

Or if you're from a Mqabuko or even from Entebbe

All these border wars

We wasn't ready

My brother I'm just trying to survive

Chete chete

I'm coming from a different war where I'm forsaken

I thought you'd understand since you living next to nothing

But now I see that my presence here got you impatient

We family but a distant relative ain't worth saving

He saying I'm a threat to his job but I don't blame him

But I do

For the hatred you harbouring and the slaying

I do

For the burning of shacks that we both stay in

The constant fighting when what we lacking is conversation

When you were under pressure yesterday and you gave in

My door was always open

And that's how it's remaining

Border wars

Xenophobia

Running out of Babylon searching for my utopia

My brown skin is a different kind of shade

And my accent got them asking

You from this place

When stampedes and shanty towns the case

And media brush it off like a cultural exchange

From the same race but my brothers looking at me strange

Who gave the land these borders

Who

Somebody explain

You

Adopted western cultures oppressed us and became

Enslaved, meanwhile ubuntu's the thing that we forsake

Blaming our conditions, but not the cause

Who stands to benefit when we get in these border wars

Chaos is opportunity

Divide and conquer all

Between jail and country the difference is the texture of the walls

They gave us independence

Illusions that we free

And made us proud nationals that shun diversity

Tinosvimha misodzi mubabylon

Hupenyu ndewe njodzi mubabylon

Vanotitsika konzi mubabylon

Dai matiisawo parinani

Tinosvimha misodzi mubabylon

Hupenyu ndewe njodzi mubabylon

Vanotitsika konzi mubabylon

Dai matiisawo parinani

Tinogarireiko

Pasina wekutamba naye

Tinogarireiko

Kufira kurarama here

Tinogarireiko

Pasina wekutamba naye

Tinogarireiko

Kufira kurarama here

Shadows of the city stood colossal over dwellers

Rumours of an omen being blown by vuvuzelas

Tryna knock the foreign tone so when I construct a sentence

I feel as if I even mock my own on this premise

Xenophobia! What an ugly name in a place

Where we can enjoy the beautiful diversity of race

I look and feel foreign walking at a different pace

In a cloud of fear and hate I disappear without a track

Into a dark space, consumed by desire to escape

The sad African fate of genocide and rape

I hate to see the burning man but just rewind the tape

Look at what we're doing to ourselves!! Wait!

One people divided from Cairo to the Cape

How does Africa maintain the beauty of her shape

When human blood is flowing in her rivers and her lakes

We're falling for the system! We're making a mistake

Awake! Africa Awake

Awake! Africa Awake

Tinosvimha misodzi mubabylon

Hupenyu ndewe njodzi mubabylon

Vanotitsika konzi mubabylon

Dai matiisawo parinani

Tinosvimha misodzi mubabylon

Hupenyu ndewe njodzi mubabylon

Vanotitsika konzi mubabylon

Dai matiisawo parinani

Tinogarireiko

Pasina wekutamba naye

Tinogarireiko

Kufira kurarama here

Tinogarireiko

Pasina wekutamba naye

Tinogarireiko

Kufira kurarama here

Tinosvimha misodzi mubabylon

Hupenyu ndewe njodzi mubabylon

Vanotitsika konzi mubabylon

Dai matiisawo parinani

Tinosvimha misodzi mubabylon

Hupenyu ndewe njodzi mubabylon

Vanotitsika konzi mubabylon

Dai matiisawo parinani

Tinogarireiko

Pasina wekutamba naye

Tinogarireiko

Kufira kurarama here

Tinogarireiko

Pasina wekutamba naye

Tinogarireiko

Kufira kurarama here

Don't need no border war

War we no want