Afrikaanse Musiek

(English translation below)

From the album, Vryheid.

Joe Niemand official channel:
youtube.com/user/JoeNiemandVideos

My goal is merely to make people aware of the music of Joe Niemand. I intend no copyright infringement at all. I just want people to discover this!

Lyrics (see English translation at the bottom):

Ek word wakker in die middel van die nag
Die laken gly van my koue voete af
Die kamer bly agter, die aarde laat my gaan
Soos ek spoorloos verdwyn en deur die dak uitgaan

Daar onder is geluide
Ek hoor hoe breek ‘n deur
‘n Flits deur die venster
‘n Gehardloop en geskree

Maar ek styg net saggies
Ek styg soos ‘n droom
Vee die wolke uit my oë uit
Soos die nag ontsoom

Hou vas my hand
Vanaand sien jy jou regte huis

‘n Honderdduisend hektaar se plaas in die son
Die damme lê soos plasse op die horison
Jou mense is veilig, al jou kinders by die huis
Die lande lê groen, kom laat ek jou gaan wys
Hoe lyk ‘n honderdduisend hektaar se plaas in die son

Ek word wakker in dieselfde middernag
Ek trek dieselfde laken van my koue voete af
Ek wonder oor my droom, ek wonder wat dit was
Soos ek die kluis oopmaak en in die donker wag

En net soos in my droom
Breek daar iemand deur die deur
Ek sien wye wit oë
Af teen die loop van my geweer

Maar ek praat net saggies
Ek praat oor my droom
Oor dit wat ek gesien het
Dit wat wag daar bo

Hou vas my hand
Vanaand sien jy jou regte huis

‘n Honderdduisend hektaar se plaas in die son
Die damme lê soos plasse op die horison
Jou mense is veilig, al jou kinders by die huis
Die lande lê groen, kom laat ek jou gaan wys
Hoe lyk ‘n honderdduisend hektaar se plaas in die son
Die damme lê soos plasse op die horison
Jou mense is veilig, al jou kinders by die huis
Die lande lê groen, kom laat ek jou gaan wys

Wraak en haat behoort aan U
Nie in my feilbare hande nie
Ek is vreesloos hier solank’s U so sê
Tot U my wegroep en ons saam in groen lande lê

Op my honderdduisend hektaar se plaas in die son
Die damme lê soos plasse op die horison
Jou mense is veilig, al jou kinders by die huis
Die lande lê groen, kom laat ek jou gaan wys
Hoe lyk ‘n honderdduisend hektaar se plaas in die son
Die damme lê soos plasse op die horison
Jou mense is veilig, al jou kinders by die huis
Die lande lê groen, kom laat ek jou gaan wys
Hoe lyk ‘n honderdduisend hektaar se plaas in die son

English lyrics:
I awake in the middle of the night
The sheet slides off my cold feet
The room stays behind, the earth let's me go
As I disappear without a trace and exit by the roof

There are sounds below
I hear a door break
A flashlight shines through the window
Running and screaming

But I rise softly
I rise like a dream
I wipe the clouds from my eyes
As the night fades away (?)

Hold my hand
Tonight you'll see your real home

A hundred-thousand hectare farm in the sun
The dams lie like puddles on the horizon
Your people are safe, all your children at home
The lands lie green, come let me show you
What a hundred-thousand hectare farm in the sun looks like

I awake the same midnight
I pull the same sheet off my cold feet
I wonder about my dream, I wonder what it was
As I open the safe and wait in the dark

And just like in my dream
Someone breaks through the door
I see wide white eyes
Below the barrel of my gun

But I just speak softly
I speak about my dream
About what I saw
And what awaits up there

Hold my hand
Tonight you'll see your real home

A hundred-thousand hectare farm in the sun
The dams lie like puddles on the horizon
Your people are safe, all your children at home
The lands lie green, come let me show you
What a hundred-thousand hectare farm in the sun looks like
The dams lie like puddles on the horizon
Your people are safe, all your children at home
The lands lie green, come let me show you

Revenge and hate belong to You
Not to my fallible hands
I am fearless here as long as You say so
Until you call me away and we lie together in green lands

On my hundred-thousand hectare farm in the sun
The dams lie like puddles on the horizon
Your people are safe, all your children at home
The lands lie green, come let me show you
What a hundred-thousand hectare farm in the sun looks like
The dams lie like puddles on the horizon
Your people are safe, all your children at home