Our Eyes Are Looking Up

 

Our eyes were looking up

We cried out with one voice

Wondering from whence our help cometh 

Men and women

Boys and girls 

We carried our placards

And we hit the streets 

Don't beat us we said

Don't kill us we cried

Don't hide our bodies we begged

From Awkuzu to Abattoir

The voices from the ground cried along 

Why did you kill us?

What was our crime?

As we made these calls

Both we that were here

And they that were in rivers 

And they in shallow graves

And they in unknown bushes and morgues

We began to feel a new hope

That our oppressors were benevolent

That we were fostering a new nationhood

One that is just and accountable 

That we could matter to them 

Then one cool evening 

Standing on this hope 

We made our to the tollgate again

We sat on the floor 

We waved our flags 

We sang in loud voices

That the labours of our heroes past 

Shall never be in vain 

Then the soldiers came

And the bodies hit ground

One, two, three, seven

they've killed us

And then they killed us

Now here we are again 

Our eyes are looking up

Our cries no more loud

But muffled and hidden

Wondering from whence our help cometh