Wake up (Chances)

( Written by Florian Sachse, Sven Leonhardt, Liane Hennebach / Lyrics by Florian Sachse )

See these children

Hide beneath the wall

Staring with starving eyes

Look at these children

Fighting and fall

Hiding their selves in disguise

 

Cause fighting’s going on

Far too long

An endless sea of tears

Children are marching on

Don’t know what they’re dying for

What’s your secret

Mother Africa

Beautiful and still so violent

Fruits of nature

You could have it all

Still you get nothing out of it

 

Why don’t you throw away

All the pain of slavery and greed

Cause when the sun comes up

All you see

Are your possibilities

Wake up

These chances won’t wait long

It’s all up to us

Together

We can get what we need

And I know you can’t ignore that forever

Wake up

These chances won’t wait long

It’s all up to us

So tired of being judged by the color of our skin

We all wanna live in dignity

From Cape Town to Johannesburg

From Durban to Pretoria

From Barberton to Robertson

East to West and North to South

There’s a wave across the land

Stop the fighting now!

We want to be free

Wake up

These chances won’t wait long

It’s all up to us

Together

We can get what we need

And I know you can’t ignore that forever

Wake up

These chances won’t wait long

It’s all up to us

Wake up

These chances won’t wait long

It’s all up to us

Together

We can get what we need

And I know you can’t ignore that forever

Wake up

These chances won’t wait long

It’s all up to us