Peter Gabriel Lyrics

Album: Plays Live

Biko Lyrics

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

 

 When I try to sleep at night

 I 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

 

 You can blow out a candle

 But you can't blow out a 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