Crocodile Love / Ya Vuka Inkunzi

'sishimane gijima ushon' ezinyangeni
Uyamazi nkunzi emnyama? (x2)
(hey! unsuccessful lover man, you had better hurry to a magician,
Do you know one called "the black bull"?)
Igama lami nkunzi emnyama
(my name is black bull)
Yimi nkunzi emnyama
(i am black bull)
Ngicitha amasoka
(i can magically defeat your rivals in love)
'sishimane gijima ushon' ezinyangeni
Kuyo tatazela amasoka
(hey! unsuccessful lover man, hurry to a magician,
And he will cause all your rivals to become insecure)
Isoka latatazela
(the amorous young buck is nervous because....)
Intombi ifuna ukwendlala
(the young girl wants to stay the night)
Itshitshi limnandi, itshitshi limnandi njengoshukela
(a virgin is sweet, a virgin is sugar sweet)
'sishimane gijima ushon' ezinyangeni
(hey unsuccessful lover man....)
Azokwehlula amasoka
(your amorous rivals will coax away your girl)
Wo! dem buladi fhulu, nkunzi emnyama
Wehlula amasoka, shona kunkunzi emnyama
Can overcome your rivals in love, go and see him!)
Igama lami nkunzi emnyama
(my name is black bull)
Inkunzi ecitha amasoka
(the bull that causes young men to lose their girlfriends)
Ngidida amasoka
(i am the one who with magic can upset the plans of amorous young men)
Chorus

Something in the way she moves
In the way she touches me
In a way that no one can ever do
Something in the way i feel
When she's standing there
Makes me feel more real than the rain
Igama lami 'nkunzi emnyama
(my name is "black bull")
Yimi 'nkunzi emnyama
(i am "black bull")
Ngicitha amasoka
(i am the one who tests young men in love)
Standing on the corner
There's nothing warmer
Than holding her hard and close to me
Chorus
Isoka latatazela
(this young man is nervous)
Lentombi ifuna ukwendlala
(because the young girl wants to stay the night)
Itshitshi limnandi itshitshi limnandi njengoshukela
(a virgin is sweet, a virgin is sugar sweet)
We're sitting at the river's end
She smiles and says to me
"make my heart beat like a drum"
Time, time, time, can we hold the line?
Can i keep this picture forever?
Igama lami 'nkunzi emnyama
(my name is "black bull")
Yimi 'nkunzi emnyama
(i am "black bull")
Ngicitha amasoka
(i am the one who tests young men in love)
Love is just a dream by another name
Love is just a dream.

Wetholakele ngiyakuthanda
Wetholakele ungiphoxa ngento eyodwa wetholakele (x2)
(tholakele i love you tholakele
But you upset me badly over one thing...)
Wayifakelani idelela mawulahla umlenze
Wayifakelani ibeleza (x2)
(why do you wear jeans and sell yourself in the street,
Why do you wear bellbottoms?)
Chorus
Wayifakelani idelela mawulahla umlenze
Wayifakelani ibeleza
(why do you sell yourself and wear jeans and bellbottoms?)
Into-ni lo ongenza yona?
Uma ulahla umlenze, into-ni lo ongenza yona?
(what are you doing to me
By secretly streetwalking, what are you doing to me?)

Makhelwane (my neighbour)


Impela ayikho into esifuna lemhlabeni madoda (x2)
(indeed, our desire in this world for some truth always seems to come to
Nothing, men)
Ngibona abantu behlebana bezondana
(i see people slandering and hating each other)
Umunye uzonda umakhelwane
(each one in conflict with his neighbour)
Izinhliziyo zabantu ziyashisa ziyababa - ya!
(the hearts of all the people are on fire, they are bitter)
Umunye uzonda umakhelwane
(each one in conflict with his neighbour)
Chorus
Izinhliziyo zabantu ziyashisa emhlabeni (x2)
(the hearts of all people across the country are on fire)
Sothatha-phi amanzi, sothatha-phi amanzi wokucima lomlilo?
(where can we get enough water to put out these fires?)
Wangizonda makhelwane?
(why does my neighbour not get on with me?)
Sothatha-phi amanzi, sothatha-phi amanzi wokucima lomlilo?
(where can we get enough water to put out these fires?)

Every day now when i wake up
You know i feel just a little bit stronger
I stir my coffee with the promise i'll find you
Although i know the road is much longer
How many times i've sat and prayed
I'd find some map to show the way
How many times i've felt each day
Laugh at me and just slip away
Chorus
I don't know where you are
My eyes are fixed upon your star
I know that that at the journey's end
I will see your face again
Indlela 'yasidedela
(the way is now clear for us)
Sihamb' emalonjeni
(we begin our long journey)
Another highway, another mile
Through the dreamtime, down the nile
Under the desert sky blue
I have a picture of loving you
How many nights i lie awake
Feeling your footprints in my soul
How many miles will it now take
To fill this cup and make it whole
Chorus
Sihamba singadlile, lasho ithumbo
(we travel hungry, and our stomachs talk to us)
Chorus

Johnny:
Eshe mfowethu! ithini lenkunzana yasesemanzani?
(hi there 'bro! what does litte bull from the place of waters, say?
Sipho:
Hayi, noma izacile isandonsa-nje
(no, even if the bull is gaunt and thin, it still has a lot of life left in
It)
Johnny:
Uthini mfowethu ngesimo esanamhlanje?
(what do you think, brother, about life in these times?)
Sipho:
Ithatha osemsamo lamhlahla emyango ngichaza abakini mangishonjalo
(fortune has removed those from chosen positions and thrown them
Out of the house. i am referring to some of your fellow countrymen who
Were once in power.)
Johnny:
Ngibona abelungu betoyi-toyi esandton bengasafuni ukukhokha irenti,
Uthini ngalokhu mfowethu?
Sipho:
Kulomhlaba omusha yilo usho okuthandayo
(in this new country of ours, everyone and anyone has the right to
Express themselves freely....)
Chorus
Thandazani nani makholwa
(everybody pray, including you christians)
Namhlanje kunzima-nyana
(for today things are a little difficult)
Abazusazi ekhaya mhla sifika
(our families will not recognize us the day we arrive)
Ngoba saguka endleleni njenge thaya
(for we grow old on the road, like a car-tyre.)
Johnny:
Egoli ngabona umfazi eshaya indoda emhlala phansi ngemzuzwana
(in johannesburg i saw a woman punch a man and knock him out in a
Few seconds)
Sipho:
Namhlanje isandla 'somfazi sinjengesendoda
(today a woman's hand is equal to that of a man)
Johnny:
Egoli ngabona umnikazi wegalaji oswela imoto
(in johannesburg i saw the owner of a garage who didn't own a car)
Sipho:
Isicathulo se-shoemaker sicela ipapa
(and the shoemaker's shoes are hungry because they have holes in them
And the tongue is sticking out begging for porridge)
Johnny:
Bengithi ngishela intombi e-hillbrow yangibuza ukuthi ngiphethe imalini
(i tried to chat up a girl in hillbrow but she asked me how much money i
Had...)
Sipho:
Hawu! ungakhohlwa ijazi lomwenyane, pasoba!
(wow! just don't forget the "son-in-laws' overcoat" [condom], watch out!)
Chorus

Sizwa ukukhala emzini wendoda
(we hear crying in the home of a man)
Kukhala intombazane
(it is a young girl who is crying)
Ithi, "wemama, ngiyesaba ukuya emzini
(she says, "mama, i am afraid to go to the house of my husband-to-be)
Bathi ibodwe liyashisa
(they say his family is very difficult)
Wenhliziyo zami sezimbili
(my heart is divided into two,)
Enye ithi angihambe, enye ithi angibuye le khaya"
(one heart says i should go, the other heart says i should
Stay here at home and not get married")
Chorus
Thula mntanami nawe uyazi
(be quiet, my child, you always knew the truth)
Thula mntanami isoka lizokuthatha
(be quiet, my child, a young man will be coming to take
You away and marry you)
Thula mntanami nawe uyazi
(be quiet, my child, you always knew)
Thula mntanami, uzohamba le khaya
(be quite, my child, for you will have to leave your family
And your home, and join your husband's family)
Isoka lizokuthatha
(because a young man will take you away)
Lizokuthatha isoka
(he will take you, this young man)
Sizwa ukukhala emzini wendoda
(we hear crying in the home of a man)
Kukhala intombazane
(it is a young girl who is crying)
Ithi, "uma ngikhumbula ukukhula kwami
(she says, "when i remember the good times i had growing up)
Phakhathi kwalomuzi kababa
(in the house of my father)
Ngiyesaba, ngiyesaba ukushiya ekhaya
(i become afraid, i become afraid of leaving home)
'zinhliziyo zami sezimbili"
(my heart is split in two, i am so uncertain")
Chorus