African
Barclay James Harvest

Through the eyes of a child
There's no wrong or right
No reason to hate
No need for a fight
No color, no creed
No malice, no greed
Till the child becomes a man
Give up your freedom
Hand back your rights
Then change your color now
You're black not white
And there'll never be a piece of the action
Now you're an African

Forget beliefs and swallow your pain
You're just a number now
And Boy's your name
And you'll never get a piece of the action
Now you're a working man

African, Asian, it's all the same
Brown, black, Caucasian
It's all the same
Slave labor, working class
What's in a name?
Far left, far right, center
It's power they crave

The politics of Apartheid
The politics of shame
The cold abuse of human rights
Of torture and of pain
Are only part of the action
When you're an African

The politics of making more
The politics of greed
The cold abuse of poverty
To keep your labor cheap
Are only part of the action
When you're a working man

African, Asian, it's all the same
Brown, black, Caucasian
It's all the same
Slave labor, working class
What's in a name?
Far left, far right, center
Far left, far right, center
Far left, far right, center
It's power they crave

The politics of buying arms
When there's no food to eat
The politics of digging gold
Instead of planting seeds
The leader with his private golf course
And his flashy cars
Sits playing with his diamond wrist watch
While the people starve

The politics of shooting down
A plane that brings relief
By fat men playing power games
Who've got enough to eat
The politics of racial hate
The politics of war
The men who sell the guns have fun
While we all count the score

One, two, three, four
Thousands, millions
People dying just to keep
Them in the action

Through the eyes of a man
There's wrong and there's right
A reason to hate
There's need for a fight
There's color, there's creed
There's malice, there's greed
When the child becomes a man


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  (Took Me) So Long   A Matter Of Time   A Tale of Two Sixties   African Nights   After the Day   After the Day [Stereo]   All My Life   Alone In The Night   Alright Down Get Boogie   Alright Down Get Boogie (Mu Ala Rusic)   Back In The Game   Back In The Game Again   Back To Earth   Back To The Wall   Ball and Chain   Ballad Of Denshaw Mill   Believe In Me   Berlin   Beyond The Grave   Blue John's Blues   Brother Thrush   Brother Thrush [*]   Capricorn   Capricorn [Single Edit][*]   Cheap The Bullet   Child of Man   Child of Man [*]   Child of Man [#][*]   Child of Man [BBC Session 15th March 1972][#][*]   Child Of The Universe   Children Of The Disappeared   Classics: A Tale Of Two Sixties   Cold War   Copii Romania   Crazy (Over You)   Crazy City   Dark Now My Sky   Dark Now My Sky [#][*]   Dark Now My Sky [Stereo]   Death Of A City   Delph Town Morn   Do You Believe In Dreams   Do You Believe In Dreams (Same Chance For Everyone...   Doctor Doctor   Doctot Doctor   Early Morning   Early Morning [*]   Echoes and Shadows   Fact: The Closed Shop   Fantasy: Loving Is Easy   Fiction: The Streets Of San Francisco   Fifties Child   Following Me   For No One   For No One [Live]   For Your Love   Forever Yesterday   Friend Of Mine   Galadriel   Giving It Up   Good Love Child   Guitar Blues   Halfway To Freedom   Happy Old World   Harbour   Hard Hearted Woman   Harry's Song   He Said Love   High Wire   Highway for Fools   Hold On   How Do You Feel Now   How Do You Feel Now?   Hymn   Hymn [DVD]   Hymn [Single Edit][#][*]   Hymn For The Children   I Can't Go on Without You   I'm Like A Train   I'm over You   I've Got a Feeling   If Love Is King   In Memory of the Martyrs   In My Life   In Search For England   In Search of England   Inside My Nightmare   Iron Maiden   John Lennon's Guitar   Jonathan   Just A Day Away   Just A Day Away (Forever Tomorrow)   Kiev   Knoydart   Lady Loves   Lady Macbeth   Leper's Song   Life Is for Living   Life Is for Living [Single Version]   Little Lapwing   Looking From The Outside   Love Is Like a Violin   Love On The Line   Loving Is Easy   Loving Is Easy [Single Version]   May Day   Medicine Man   Medicine Man [*]   Medicine Man [Stereo]   Midnight Drug   Mill Boys   Mocking Bird   Mocking Bird [Live]   Mocking Bird [Stereo]   Mockingbird   Mockingbird [Live Berlin]   Mockingbird [Live]   Moongirl   Moonwater   Mother Dear   Mr. E   Mr. Sunshine   Negative Earth   Nova Leipidoptera   Nova Lepidoptera   Nova Lepidoptera [Ambient Instrumental Mix][#][*][...   On The Wings Of Love   Once More   One Houndred Thousand Smiles Out   One Hundred Thousand Smiles Out   One Night   Origin Earth   Panic   Paper Wings   Paraiso Dos Cavalos   Play To the World   Polk Street Rag   Pool Of Tears   Pools of Blue   Pools of Blue [#][*]   Poor Boy Blues   Poor Man's Moody Blues   Poor Wages   Poor Wages [*]   Prisoner Of Your Love   Psychedelic Child   Ra   Rebel Woman   Ring Of Changes   River of Dreams   Rock 'N' Roll Lady   Rock 'n' Roll Star   Rock 'n' Roll Woman   Rock'n'roll Lady   Say You'll Stay   Science Fiction: Nova Lepidoptera   Sea of Tranquility   See Me See You   Shadows On The Sky   She Said   Sideshow   Silver Wings   Sip of Wine   Skin Flicks   So Long   So Tomorrow   Someone There You Know   Someone There You Know [#][*]   Song for Dying   Song For You   Song With No Meaning   Sperratus   Sperratus [Single Edit][#][*]   Spirit On The Water   Spud-U-Like   Stand Up   Suicide   Suicide?   Summer Soldier   Sun Will Never Shine   Sweet Jesus   Taking Me Higher   Taking Some Time On   Teenage Heart   Thank You   Thankyou   That Was Then… this Is Now   The Closed Shop   The Great 1974 Mining Disaster   The Great Unknown   The Iran Maiden   The Iron Maiden   The Joker   The Life You Lead   The Poet   The Poet [Stereo]   The Song   The Song (They Love To Sing)   The Streets of San Francisco   The Sun Will Never Shine   The Time Of Our Lives   The World Goes On   Three Weeks To Despair   Time Of Our Lives   Titles   Tonight’s Gonna Be The Night   Turn The Key   Turning in Circles   Ursula   Ursula (The Swansea Song)   Ursula (The Swansea Song) [#][*]   Vanessa Simmons   Victims Of Circumstance   Victims of Circumstance [Instrumental]   Waiting For The Right Time   Waiting On The Borderline   Watching You   Welcome To The Show   When The City Sleeps   When the World Was Woken   Where Do We Go   Who Do We Think We Are   Yesterday's Heroes   You Need Love

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