歌曲名 No Rope as Long as Time

歌手名 Latin Quarter

作词：Steve Skaith

作曲：Steve Skaith

Old Afrikaner farmer

on the terrace of his home

Sits gently in his rocking chair

gazing at this land he owns

There he sees his memories

and there his past

There he smiles his grim smile

strokes his gun

swears he'll make it last

Someone brings the whisky

someone serves the meal

Like the someone in the township

in the mine and in the fields

Someone at the graveyard

someone with their tears

Someone who can't forget

the freedom lost these 100 years

Old man

you can boost about the gun

that's by your bed

Old man

you can tell me how you're good

for all your kaffirs yet

And your guns can fire

and your prisons fill

And you've yards of rope for hanging still

But your guns can shoot

and never hit the sky

And there's no rope as long as time

Mandela in the prison

Biko in the ground

Sharpeville and Soweto voices

silenced till the end of time

Freedom don't come easy

don't come bloodless

don't come fast

But in the hearts of the countless people

No pass law's gonna stop us pass

Old man

you can boost about the gun

that's by your bed

Old man

you can tell me how you're good

for all your kaffirs yet

And your guns can fire

and your prisons fill

And you've yards of rope for hanging still

But your guns can shoot

and never hit the sky

Sometimes he'll talk of reasons

economy and cause

Sometimes he'll even talk of changes

Though he clasps the gun and talks of laws

But power ain't this old man's gift

And freedom's no reform

The old man made the history

and the history's made of wars

Old man

you can boost about the gun

that's by your bed

Old man

you can tell me how you're good

for all your kaffirs yet

And your guns can fire

and your prisons fill

And you've yards of rope for hanging still

But your guns can shoot

and never hit the sky

As no Rope as Long as Time