The Same - Dear Reader

Land, land of my birth

Are you my mother

Or am I an orphan?

Where, where do I belong?

Will I find a place in this world

Or forever just wander around?

Southern hemisphere

How did I end up here?

I have nowhere to go

This is the only home that I know

Such a great divide

Between you and I

How i wish it would go

I live in a place in my mind

No, I don’t listen to Kwaito, wasn’t born in Soweto

I don’t understand you

But I want to you know

Same, we’re both the same

We share the same heart

We’re made of the same parts

Please don’t look at me that way

I already live with the guilt that I own

From my forefather’s past

Does this land belong to the tribes who engraved her stones with stories of old?

They’re long gone you know

Now this is our home

I want to strip you down to the core

Take off your shirt, hat, shoes and trousers

Erase my head, all the books that I’ve read

The language I speak, the customs you keep

Keep on going right down to the heart

To the pain that is yours, the pain that is ours

Tell you it’s all going to be alright

Is it going to be alright

Heal, can you heal?

Heal, oh, can you heal?

Heal, oh, mother, can you heal?

Or am I an orphan?

Forever a stranger here

Same, we’re both the same

We share the same heart

We’re made of the same parts