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To be born in precarious land, girded by more powerful distress than me To be parted from a precious strand binding me to the belly that protected me. An innate learning of the death, my own lie is fear of fear so radical My corrupt heart puts me on a path moving away forever from my Africa. It's a seeming light - of a white owner skin On my blackness - my dark complexion's sin Saying goodbye - to my wild frontier It's a give-and-take - with my own hidden fear I will comply - and so resigned adhere And I will bow - to the off foreign field And I will sow - the cotton I will wear And approve my nothingness- nothingness He's my pallid gleam - replies to my agony I respond to him - give up on my person I feel safe awhile - His weapons so mighty Pain remains my style - Goodbye my obscurity I will pluck my fright - fatigue fall asleep my thoughts Wearing alien cloth - Bye bye little blackness I'll be who I'm not - love what is not due to me I will hug his God - his words will comfort me SongtexteBetter I can't It's everyone’s fate It's my pallid way - beguiling my agony I respond to it - give up on my coherence I feel safe awhile - It’s armors so mighty Pain remains my style - Goodbye my prehistory I will pluck my fright - fatigue fall asleep my thoughts Wedding alien thougth - Bye bye little childhood I'll be who I'm not - love what is not due to me I will hug his God - his words will comfort me Better I can't But I don’t stop looking for a way to discover something so profuse and great to deserve all my guts and faith to delete the consensus of deported slave 'cause my pact with hypocrisy I want to waive and recover my genuine again. Aus Songtexte Mania