| kasiwa i
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| makasimba ere
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| ndakasimba kana makasimba ow
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| ndakasimba
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| you raise your head, you beat the sun
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| but your boys they lie so close to you
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| do you dare get up and wake the two
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| oh elias, I see you there at work in the day time
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| do you think you could answer all the questions in the world
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| in just one word- I think you could
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| 'cause if you die will I get word that your gone
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| or will I hear it in passing conversation
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| or will I stop short and fall to the ground
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| distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
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| hold my hand just one more time
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| to see if you’re really going to meet me
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| hold my hand just one more time
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| to see if you’re really going to meet me
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| honest and manuel, well they’re at school now
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| given the chance that their father’s never seen
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| to see what’s beyond section 17
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| and in ten years when you look back at your boys
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| well you know they’ve grown way taller than the tallest
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| sugar cane in the field
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| I see your wife she stands stooped over by the fire outside
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| and I see your boys and when they look up
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| you know I think they got their mother’s eyes
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| 'cause she looks so proud she looks so happy
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| she looks so proud she looks so happy |