Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Motor-Bike In Afrika, artist - Peter Hammill. Album song The Future Now, in the genre
Date of issue: 31.12.2005
Record label: Virgin
Song language: English
A Motor-Bike In Afrika |
A motor-bike in Afrika |
Yeah, he’s riding the white line |
Oblivious of snakes stretched out across the way like trip-wire |
Shouting |
«The road is mine!» |
Tracing the line of the Skeleton Coast |
Ghost riders from the Sud-West: |
The original Angels of Death they seem |
Six motor-bikes abreast |
Riding through the oppressive night |
Now only the hardest remain |
Look at the scars of the tyre-tracks |
Look to the bodies behind their backs |
Look at the bastards bray |
In Afrika today |
The bodies of Biko and Soweto poor |
The Christian message of Dutch Reform |
The sound of the monster, the motor-bike roar |
The hate in the eyes of the uniformed Boer |
The head and the bucket, the boot and the floor… |
Racial torture and racial war |
In Afrika today |
Come in Rhodesia, South Africa, your time is up… |
No protection on a motor-bike, man; |
Sooner or later that normal traffic’s gonna get you |