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Emmanuelin sanoituksia:

Emmanuel Jal: Gua (English translation)

Chorus

I will be so happy
When there's peace in Sudan
When people come back to Sudan,
My heart will be filled with joy
When people can go back home
When people will be able to support themselves in their homeland

Verse one
Oh wait, wait, let's think
Think how it would be
If there was peace in Sudan
Let's sing.
Sing: Oh my Lord
Hear our prayer
Hear our prayer
It will be so good
When there'll be peace
In my homeland, Sudan
Not one sister will be forced into marriage
And not one cow will be taken by force
And not one person will starve from hunger again
I can't compare to anything
The time when people will understand each other
And there's peace in my homeland, Sudan

Verse two
Just hold on a minute let's think for a minute
How Sudan will be with peace for a minute
Our hands will be raised, our God will be praised
Oh my God I can't wait for that day
When my people
Will plant seed in their land
When my people
Will be free in their land
When my people...

I can't wait, I can't wait for that day
When I will see no more tears, no more fear, no cry,
No tribalism, nepotism and racism in my motherland
I can't wait for that day
When the wonderful people go back home
And plan their nation in this generation
I can't wait to see that day

Verse three
When there will be peace I will be truly happy
At that moment there will be no more death
No more hunger and we shall rebuild our land
The whole world will respect us
And we shall rebuild our land
With one hand, one heart, with one blood, one body
Because we are one
And Sudan's future shall be promising
Children will go to school,
I hope we can do this

Emmanuel Jal: War Child

I believe I've survived for a reason to tell my story to touch lives
I believe I've survived for a reason to tell my story to touch lives
all the people struggling down there
storms only come for a while
then after a while they'll be gone
blessed, blessed

My father was working for the government as a police man
few years later a hardy joined a rebel movement that was formed to fight for freedom
I didn't understand the politics behind all this 'cause I was only a child
after a while I saw the tension rising high between the Christian and the Muslim regime
we lost our possession
my mothers, my mothers, mothers suffered depression
and because of this...I was forced to be a war child

I'm a war child
I'm a war child
I believe I've survived for a reason to tell my story to touch lives (touch lives, touch lives, touch lives, touch lives, touch lives, touch lives, touch lives)

I lost my father in this battle
my brothers
all my life I've been hiding in the jungle
the pain I'm cutting is too much to handle
whose there please till I....my candle

More lyrics by Emmanuel Jal

My dreams are like torment,
My every moment.
Voices of my brain
Of friends that were slain,
Friends who died by my side of starvation
In the burning jungle and the desert plain.
But Jesus heard my cry
I was tempted to eat the rotten flesh of my comrade.

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The music I used to hear was bombs and guns,
So many people die that I don't even cry no more.
I ask God the question: What am I here for?
Why are my people poor?
I ate snails, roaches, rats, frogs -- anything that had life.
I know it's a shame,
But who's to blame?