A`w?n a`gba` a`tij?´ a´ ma´a wi´pe´
Mo r'o´hun t'o´du`n, ?ja ?sa`n
A`m?´, e`mi r'o´hun t'o´du`n j'?ja ?sa`n l? ?`
Mo r'o´lo´lu`f?´ ?` mi, t'?´ka`n mi´ ya`n
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At the time when hope was lost
Very near to The Point of No Return
Well beyond faith being forced
I was well tired- and worn
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It started as a joke
But into love, my nose I did poke
To love I always knew I'd bow
But never thought the time was now
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Forty-four years before today
You came from above
You brought us forth without delay
And now you are our love
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I thought it was love
That from above
That was too big to be held in a clove
That couldn't be hidden in a glove
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The love I want
Is not that which does haunt
But the one from above
From someone as innocent-looking as a dove
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Her much-awaited verdict
Was worse than an apartheid-upholding edict:
'You are NOT my type'
And tears from my eyes I had to wipe!
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Whether the weather be cold
Whether the weather the bold
We'll weather the weather
No matter the weather
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In this I know I was born for you:
Everytime I look at you
I see the one for love of whom
I had left my mother's womb
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Maybe I wasn't being proud after all
When I asserted that back she'd come
(Her departure was as sweet as gall;
As devastating as a bomb)
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