Handwriting

from FolK tOLd Me EP by Folk Told Me

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Handwriting on the wall
(Siyabhala la, uzogcwala la)
Handwriting on the wall
(Siyabhala la, uzogcwala la)
I want somebody read and tell me what it says
It’s the handwriting on the wall 4x

Shackles of urban legends wedged in
Ephemeral rhythms
Slaving in fields of broken records
Looking in the land of lost tapes
Picking rhymes from many reigns ago
Tagging my escape
Scribbling in subliminal graffiti
On mental landscapes

(Xhosa RAP VERSE)

Get out your headphones cassettes boombox stereos
Phonographs and radios
Oral history no more mc now me modern griot
Get a pen and take this message yo
Make note make note make note

Handwriting on the wall
(Siyabhala la, uzogcwala la)
Handwriting on the wall
(Siyabhala la, uzogcwala la)
I want somebody read and tell me what it says
It’s the handwriting on the wall 4x


Translation Note:

VOCAL CHORUS/BACKING
LINE1 “SIYABHALA LA” (WE ARE WRITINH HERE (we’re saying something worth hearing or we’re writing something worth reading)

LINE2 “UZOGCWALA LA” (YOU GONNA DIG IT! (you gonna feel or understand our tip, you gonna relate our “shiot”

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from FolK tOLd Me EP, released December 15, 2011

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Folk Told Me is a band of melodic sankofa martians, spinning stories like hip hop griots doomed to this place called earth, traveling in sound sparring with myopic modes of being…freeing. . .

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