Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
The most experimental and adventurous – and explicitly political – moment of The Future Now, “A Motor-Bike in Afrika” is a protest song against the apartheid system in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. The “character” of the song is crossing the line of a “white area” stablished by the regimen on his...
[Intro]
A motor-bike in Afrika
Yeah, he's riding the white line
Oblivious of snakes stretched out across the way like trip-wire
Shouting:
"The road is mine!"
[Verse 1]
Tracing the line of the Skeleton Coast
Ghost riders from the Sud-West:
The original Angels of Death they seem
Six motor-bikes abreast
[Verse 2]
Riding through the oppressive night (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
(Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
Now only the hardest remain (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
(Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
Look at the scars of the tyre-tracks (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
Look to the bodies behind their backs (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
Look at the bastards bray (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika, Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
In Afrika today (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
[Verse 3]
The bodies of Biko and Soweto poor (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
(Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika) (Today)
The Christian message of Dutch Reform (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
(Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika) (Today)
The sound of the monster, the motor-bike roar (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
The hate in the eyes of the uniformed Boer (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
The head and the bucket, the boot and the floor... (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
(Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
Racial torture and racial war (Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
(Afrika, Afrika, a motorbike in Afrika)
In Afrika today
[Outro]
Come in, Rhodesia, South Africa, your time is up...
No protection on a motor-bike, man;
Sooner or later that normal traffic's gonna get you
A Motor-Bike in Afrika was written by Peter Hammill.
A Motor-Bike in Afrika was produced by Peter Hammill.