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Ashamed
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Azanian Love Song 11 Ashamed The eye of God Looks down ashamedly On the council shacks That stand like men condemned Before a firing squad The stench of dead animals Urine and human dung Give the township its body odour Dirty rags and debris Provide floral decorations In this garden of hopelessness In the shacks or streets Near some broken wall or tree Wasted men and women love their slum As they would sexual pleasure It is one condition of being coloured In Western Township, Living without honour Dying with shame ...