Vusi Mahlasela - Song For Thandi lyrics

Back home from exile She was arrested Six months pregnant They took her to a field And made her dig with her bare hands For the weapons She knew nothing about And when she found nothing They took her back to the prison cell And they gave her a gun, and they said Take it, it's loaded, k** yourself Like a soldier And end your miseries She looked at the gun and she though, okay All my tomorrows will be just like today Until I break or I die either way The end has come So she picked up the gun Metal was cool against her head Telling herself she'd be better off dead When suddenly She felt a baby kicking inside It was good to be alive And she started to sing