CAPE OF STORMS

Roger Lucey (South Africa)

There's a cruel wind that blows along the flat lands And mothers keep their doors locked But still they feel the storm. As the boys outside the fish and chips Are meaner Than the boys behind the liquor store With a drop to keep them warm. And the bleakness bites the hardest At the homeless. And the homeless walk the streets With nothing left to lose. And when the streets become a battlefield In a battle all must lose Then you know that there's a cold front Out on the Cape of Storms And your passport is the tatoo That you're wearing. It's the seal upon your fate It's the killer of your dreams. And when the night comes crashing through the greyness, You steel against the freezing And you switch off to the screams. And the coldness bites the hardest At the hungry. And the angry bite the ones Who just don't care a damn. And if the knives are out tonight On your street - You know that there's a cold front Out on the Cape of Storms Lovers walk the beaches And the mountains. Postcard conversations In a sunset hardly real While back out on the flats The word's survival, But today's survivors stand prepared For when their luck runs dry. And the bleakness bites the hardest At the homeless and the homeless walk the streets With nothing left to lose. And when the streets become a battlefield In a battle all must lose Then you know that there's a cold front Out on the Cape of Storms Now sometimes men in power are mistaken. And they follow plans that fail And yet who pays the price? Mistakes of ideology run rampant While the man out on the bottom rung Is the victim of this vice. And the coldness bites the hardest At the hungry. And the angry bite the ones Who just don't give a damn. But in the face of this reality Someone's got to pay To restore the human dignity Redress man-made poverty Turn away from apathy And madness on the Cape of Storms

But in the face of this reality Someone's got to pay To restore the human dignity Redress man-made poverty Turn away from apathy And madness on the Cape of Storms