Album: A Passage to Rhodesia

We could never have won this
We will fight (?)
Now we've all but conquered fate
So hate us and see if we mind

Washing off the dust
Like the first rains of the rainy season
And encircling rage and reason
We postpone our grieving
But the rains never seem to come

To have you here
To make you see
While we hoped, we thought, it's all over
What care for glory?
What care for thee?
For now you know, it's all over
All over, hmm, all over

To this house of stone we flock
Hiding like the snails between the reeds and rocks
They'll be searching the valleys in vain
While we'll be waiting for the rain

A nation reborn, a stray shepherd
One must wait and go for the throat
When hunting leopard
And now we're blinking back each tear
There's no changing the balance of fear

To have you here
To make you see
While we hoped, we thought, it's all over
What care for glory?
What care for thee?
For now you know, it's all over
All over, hmm, all over

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