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Long have we all waited
Many times have we seen
In the eyes of the laborers
In the eyes of the neighbours
A feeling that leaves none to guess who’s been doing what for who and when for less
And who’s been left out there with dust on his dead feet
Shot down in the street

Look right at the sunset
Look left and pour the tea
Look on in amazement
Milk first and mass crazy here
Nowhere else in the world can you see so many monsters and mutations that creep out so efficiently
And leave you wondering what happened to all those sacred things
They got shot down in the street

New morning, new morning
Old ways getaway
But here in my cradle
I lie incapable
I’m a white boy who looked at his life gathered in his hands
And saw it was all due to the sweat of some other man
That one who got shot down in the street

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from Live at Jamesons (1984), released June 1, 1984

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James Phillips Johannesburg, South Africa

James Phillips, who died aged 36 in July 1995, was a composer, musician, bandleader and the voice and conscience of a generation of white South Africans.
His music was born at the same time as the Soweto Riots and then fused in a strangely comfortable way with the punk musical explosion. His songwriting bloomed through apartheid’s darkest years and into the dawning of the new era. ... more

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