Freshlyground & ZANEWS – Chicken to Change (OFFICIAL RELEASE)

Freshlyground & ZANEWS – Chicken to Change (OFFICIAL RELEASE)

This music video was produced in 2010 (!), a collaboration between the South African band Freshlyground and ZANEWS, South Africa’s award-winning web and tv satirical puppet news show.
The song ‘Chicken to Change’ is from the band’s album ‘Radio Africa’.

Here are the full lyrics of the song:

i remember a time when you were noble
conqueror
a supernova

so resplendent!
out of this world, you were shiny as a revelation!

we makorokoto utshintsha ma kutheni? 
(oh Congratulations, when will you ever change?)

you are chicken to change!
you are chicken to change!

tshintsha!
(change!)

now 
and ever
be one with our beauty
shine for all the world over
an iridescent example of honour for the coming generation

we makorokoto utshintsha ma kutheni?

you are too chicken to change!

ye phithi phithi ingqondo yakho?
le tyibiliki ithongo lakho?
korokoto wasoloko wathembisa ukusivulela amasango
kodwa nguwe olala nesitshixo
(did you lose sight of the visions in your head?
did you lose grip of the dreams that you once held? 
you promised always to open the doors for us
indeed it is you and only you who sleeps with the key)

you are chicken to change!

tshintsha!