Tough Enough - Johnny Clegg & Savuka

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Tough Enough Lyrics

Lomhlaba unzima, lomhlaba
[this world is a harsh place, this world]

Picture the end of a cycle
Here's the fire from heaven
There's a tired planeet closing down
No more news at eleven
Somewhere the last of a species has died
Somewhere a child is born
When I hold you, I tremble inside
Can we ride out the storm?
Are you tough enough -- can you take the strain?
Are you tough enough -- to walk in the burning rain
Are you tough enough -- can you take the change?
Are you tough enough -- baby just say!

Chorus:
Into the heart of the human dream
Into a strange new world
Remember me under the tree of man
Where I first heard your words
Gonna make it through, I can feel it

What we need is a miracle


What we need is some time
What we need is an angel of mercy
In this life

Are you tough enough -- can you take the heat?
Are you tough enough -- to walk in the burning street
Are you tough enough -- can you take the change
Are you tough enough -- baby just say!

Chorus...

There's your mama and your papa
Waving good-bye in the cold moonlight
In their eyes the confusion of a world gone by
And you hold me tightly as we step out
Into the morning light
And I know you are thinking that for something to be born
Somthing has to die.

Chorus...

Vele vele we mama kunjalo
[it is true, it's obvious. mama, it is just as you say].

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Johnny Clegg's second crossover band Savuka takes its name from the Zulu word for "We have risen". Savuka, like Clegg's first band Juluka before it, mixes African music with Celtic folk music and international rock sounds. They recorded four albums: Third World Child (1987), Shadow Man (1988), Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World (1989) and Heat, Dust & Dreams (1993). The last album was nominated for a US Grammy Award for the best world music album in 1993.

In the United States, songs performed by Johnny Clegg have appeared in three well-known feature films: Scatterlings of Africa in Rain Man, Dela in George of the Jungle, and Life Is a Magic Thing in the animated film Ferngully. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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