Zap Mama - seven
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Belgo Zaïroise

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Nostalgie Amoureuse

That night I was walking and walking
I found myself in an open square at down
The square was dirty, full of garbage
paper, plastic, tin cans
There were people sleeping on the benches
with blankets made of cardboard
I wasn’t comfortable and I judged in
instantly what I saw: stinking
filth condemned
One of them smiles at me and says

Hey! Don’t go losing your today
Hiding your soul in your solitude
I’ve skipped from society a talking heart keeps us true

Your face is my light he says
The day shines better for the view
The birds talk among themselves
Their words tell tales of you.

We are the winners
If we unclothe our eyes
The scene is not what it seems
The healing waits in our sky.

Hey there! Before you walk away
Show me the smile that says
I’m not alone
You see what you want in me
This crazy life is my home.

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African Sunset

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Poetry Man

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Téléphone

What is it that’s making people run all over the planet

While for some folks it’s a big deal just getting water to quench their thirst

There are those who deal like pros
While the losers and the drunks look for the
Right number of their woes

I’m the telephone bug and I listen to all of you
If you need to make an urgent call

That’s where I come in, on the ball
I know nobody likes me
But no worry, I take it lightly

Hello 1-800?
Who am I without a TV?

Hello? Single man trying to contact............and
Have some hot conversation

This strange device, no way to pass it by
Even if the price you’ll have to pay is pretty high

Reduced rate, magnetic international, fixed or mobile,

Everything is digital but there’s no touch after the tone

Nowadays to make love we do it by telephone

We’ve become the fools of what we consume.

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A New World

I sat in my room
So dismal and blue
Feeling that I can communicate
with you

So I picked up my thoughts
Picked up paper and pen
I know there are causes to defend
Now everybody stand up
Let’s spread these words
Around the neighborhood
Return to the source all isn’t lost

Now the world is changing
Beyond recognition
And it’s not too late
Don’t seal your fate
With radiation
With pollution
And all that confusion

It’s not too late
For making a new world
It’s not too late
For making a better world
It’s not too late
Oooh ou oooh

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Baba Hooker

Illoï

Jogging à Tombouctou

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Timidity

What can I do
I can’t find the words
I’m trying, trying, I wait
Nothing happens
I scream inside myself instead

I can’t express myself with my hands
I can’t trust them
Nobody cares
I’ve tried I keep trying
Nobody cares

I open myself timidity
And without the words
I feel — I’m feeling
And if you open yourself and show me what you’re feeling
Then we can talk without words

You don’t always need words to speak
Just let your feelings go express
I’ll read them as if they were words
You can express yourself without words.

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Elé Buma

Say what?
Do what?
Why?
Words get said then disappear
For having said what and why
Humans are born then disappear
Say what?
Do what?
Why?
I hush to savor
To listen to the instant
And let the Buma ritual calm our pain
Say what?
Do what?
Why?

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Warmth

Yesterday I was a child, today a mother
And I know how much we give and take
What I am accused of as a child
My spontaneity was my reality
Now everything is coded, thought out, numbered

Who waits for you
Who hears for you
Who sees you naked, no judgment

The only possibility I see
It’s to let the music flow through me

I’m riding alone, all the windows are closed
Got the echoes in my mind, hear the horns
When they blow
Touch my hand to the glass it’s cold outside
Shake my head with a smile feel the
Temperature rise

Warmth I need some warmth

Can you feel it when it blows your way
Can you feel the rhythm of a new day
Oh just let your desire be your guide
Hold on to the feeling to keep the fire inside

Can you feel it when it blows your way
Makes you feel high
The rhythm will warm you
Yesterday, I was but tomorrow it’s another day

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Damn Your Eyes

I can do what I want
I’m in control
That’s what I tell myself
I’ve got a man on my own
I’ll be alright alone
Don’t need anybody else
I give myself a good talking to
No more bein’ a fool for you
But I see and all I remember
How you make me wanna surrender

Damn your eyes
For taking my breath away
Making me wanna stay
Damn your eyes
For getting my hopes up high
Making me fall in love again
Damn your eyes

It’s always the same
You say that you’ll change
Somehow you never do
I beleive all your lies
I look in you eyes
You make it all seem true
I guess I see what I wanna see
Or is it my heart just deceiving me
‘Cause that look I know so well
I fall completely under your spell

Damn your eyes
For taking my breath away
For making me wanna stay
Damn you eyes
For getting my hopes up high
For making me fall in love again
Damn your eyes

You keep deliberately deceiving me
Making me see what I wanna see
Damn your eyes
For taking my breath away
For making me wanna stay
Damn your eyes
For getting my hopes up high
For making me fall in love again
Damn your eyes

Damn your eyes
For taking my breath away
Damn, damn your eyes
For getting my hopes up high
For making me fall in love, fall in love again
Damn, damn you eyes

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