[Intro: .] [Verse 1] The sun is a furnace on the Serengeti plain Waiting for the mercy of the seasonal rain But there’s a hunger that water can’t feed Born of a distance and born of a greed In the shadow of the mountain, so purple and tall The giants are sleeping while the children fall [Verse 2] I saw a woman with a world on her back Walking the line of a dusty track She’s got the wisdom of a thousand years But the dry red earth is drinking her tears While we’re counting our silver and counting our gold She’s counting the breaths of the young and the old [Chorus] Oh, Kilimanjaro, do you see us down here? Living in the silence, living in the fear The shadow is long, but the morning is near Wake up the heart! Wake up the soul! Make the broken circle whole! [Verse 3] The wire is electric, the border is closed But the spirit of man is never composed Of the things you can buy or the things you can sell It’s the song of the ocean in a desert shell Listen to the wind, listen to the drum The day of the reckoning is gonna come [Verse 4] Tear down the fences, open the gate Before the compassion is buried by fate We’re all under the same burning sun The war for the future has already begun Not with a bullet, not with a blade But with the choices that we haven’t made! [Bridge] One world! (One world!) One blood! (One blood!) Rising up out of the dust and the mud! [Chorus] Oh, Kilimanjaro, do you see us down here? Living in the silence, living in the fear The shadow is long, but the morning is near Wake up the heart! Wake up the soul! Make the broken circle whole! [Outro:.]
