Arbeitsblatt: Biko Songtext

Biko Songtext Quelle: ext/peter-gabriel/biko73d4fa35.html September 77 Port Elizabeth weather fine It was business as usual In police room 619 Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja -The man is dead September 77 Port Elizabeth bei schönem Wetter Es war „Business-As-Usual In Polizei-Zimmer 619 Oh Biko, Biko, Biko, weil Oh Biko, Biko, Biko, weil Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja Der Mann ist tot When try to sleep at night can only dream in red The outside world is black and white With only one colour dead Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja -The man is dead Wenn ich versuche, nachts zu schlafen kann ich nur in rot träumen Die Außenwelt ist schwarz und weiß Mit nur einer Farbe tot You can blow out candle But you cant blow out fire Once the flames begin to catch The wind will blow it higher Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja -The man is dead And the eyes of the world are watching now watching now Oh Biko, Biko, Biko, weil Oh Biko, Biko, Biko, weil Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja Der Mann ist tot Du kannst eine Kerze ausblasen Aber man kann nicht ein Feuer auspusten Sobald die Flammen sich entzünden Wird der Wind sie größer machen Oh Biko, Biko, Biko, weil Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja Der Mann ist tot Und die Augen der Welt beobachten jetzt beobachten jetzt BIKO Written by Peter Gabriel. Published by Real World Music Ltd, EMI Music Publishing. Courtesy of petergabriel.com. Song lyrics are in bold, the meanings of the lyrics are in italics. September ‘77 when Mo Farah was just glint in his mothers eye Port Elizabeth weather fine on the beaches for blacks and the nicer beaches for the whites It was business as usual in the separate schools, hospitals, buses and universities, there since 1948 In police room 619 they enforced the law that held that whites were superior to blacks Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Steve Biko was former student leader and an antiapartheid activist Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko like other activists he was banned from speaking to more than one person at once Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja he was picked up at road block, questioned for 22 hours and beaten into coma The man is dead he died on 12 September 1977 The man is dead and the police were never charged When try to sleep at night only in dreams could black South Africans be free. In real life, long before Biko, their movements had been curtailed can only dream in red the African National Congress youth wings resistance movement started in 1949. Churches and unions joined The outside world is black and white blacks had to carry pass books while whites didnt. In one township in 1960, thousands protested at police station, refusing to carry their pass books With only one color dead police opened fire and 69 protestors died in what became known as the Sharpeville Massacre You can blow out candle Sharpeville didnt deter protestors, it spurred them on But you cant blow out fire the massacre galvanised international support Once the flames begin to catch international sport, consumer, cultural and academic boycotts and trade embargoes The wind will blow it higher when Geoff Boycott didnt observe the boycott there were calls for Boycott boycott Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko senior members of the ANC were imprisoned for their protests against apartheid Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja In Xhosa, Yihla Moja means Come, spirit The man is dead but the memory of Steve Biko and other victims of apartheid lived on And the eyes of the world are ever so important: sustained international pressure and resistance from within led to 1990s end of apartheid Watching now they were when 20 million people voted in the first universal general election in 1994 Watching now and they were when the ANC gained majority and Nelson Mandela was elected President Watching now South Africas challenges today are many. But apartheid is gone and new nation has been born.