What do the Amarok lyrics mean?
In an interview, Mike said: “The voices on Amarok sound like tones, but most are lyrics sung in Zulu – I wrote them myself, with the help of someone who can speak Zulu!”. This translation was done with the aid of Xhosa dictionaries (it does not really matter whether it is in Xhosa or Zulu, as these two are so closely related). The danger in translating from the album itself lies in that one could accidentally miss something during playback. Herewith the lyrics as they appear on the album: Sondela uSomandla sukuma wena obengezela (I must just confirm this word, because I cannot clearly make it out on the song – but in a process of eliminating posibilities, ‘obengezela’ stuck.
In an interview, Mike said: “The voices on Amarok sound like tones, but most are lyrics sung in Zulu – I wrote them myself, with the help of someone who can speak Zulu!”. This translation was done with the aid of Xhosa dictionaries (it does not really matter whether it is in Xhosa or Zulu, as these two are so closely related). Herewith the lyrics as they appear on the album: Sondela uSomandla sukuma wena obengezela (I must just confirm this word, because I cannot clearly make it out on the song – but in a process of eliminating posibilities, ‘obengezela’ stuck.
