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What are we here for?

Welcome to Zim
Welcome to hell
Hey, welcome to heaven!!

Our country's a burden
Still we trying to be better
Still we trying to be human
Our fathers were ghosts
Our sons we present for them
Our daughters we raising them
Products of broken homes
Born in the Mugabe era
Our eyes we keep on the ball
Happy homes is what we after
A better life's what we want
Life's bloody premiums

Feed the fam and fuck the bother
Let the message spread
Only for the message, man we need the fame
The balancing act is hell

What are we here for?

Where I come from,
We know what hell is
We know how things snowball
So we buying by the cases
Long as you live my sister,
The dream's is still alive
Make the weather warmer for it
Whoever timelines a calling
I'm the living testament
Born in a land that
Sent the soldiers down:
With AKs, bullets, bayonets, and gave us genocide:
Closed lips, mass rapes, mass graves and tribal divides:
Gukurahundi babies
Raised in a land that
At the age of five
Put a knife in my hand
And some other other smaller hands,
And let the posse run around
Let the animals pounce
Get the brains out get the mob in young homies be men
Have mercy on the village

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from Chimurenga Files: The One Take Poverty Tape, released January 1, 2019

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Hillary Keni-Witsani Zimbabwe

Avant-garde musician, writer, arranger and performer. Bends western music sounds to fit into African traditional and modern rhythms prevalent among the San and Kalanga people of Western Zimbabwe and Eastern Botswana.

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