Universal Men Lyrics

I have undone this distance so many times before

That it seems as if this life of mine is trapped

between two shores

As the little ones grow older on the station platform

I shall undo that distance just once more

My brothers and my sisters have been scattered in the

wind

Dressed in cheap horizons which have never quite fitted

And for centuries they've traveled on a pale phantom

ship

Sailing for that shore which has no other shore

And they sing in Zulu

From their hands leap the buildings, from their

shoulders bridges fall

And they stand astride the mountains and they pull out

all the gold

And the songs of their fathers raise strange cities to

the sky

Where they did not belong and could not belong

And they never knew why

And they share with the swallows all their winters and

their hopes

But often they get lost between the highways and the

stores

And the rivers of the homelands murmur in their dreams

They're shackled to that distance till heaven lets them

in

And they sing in Zulu again

Well they could not read and they could not write, and

they could not spell their names

But they took this world in both hands and they changed

it all the same

And from whence they came and where they went nobody

knows or cares

Cast adrift between two worlds, they could still be

heard to say:

I have undone this distance so many times before

That it seems as if this life of mine is trapped

between two shores

As the little ones grow older on the station platform

I shall undo that distance just once more

And I sing in Zulu too