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Jua linapanda
Maisha yanazunguka
(ahh) We begin again
Morning opens every hand
Dust turns gold beneath our feet
Children learn the old ones' songs
Roots hold firm in summer heat
Every ending feeds the ground
Every seed becomes a tree
And when the rain comes down
We raise our faces high
What falls to earth will rise
In another sky
Round we go, river to sea
Hand to hand, you and me
Life is a wheel,
turning us home We are the fire,
we are the stone Maisha
yanazunguka We rise, we fall,
we carry on
Grandmother laughs by the cooking flame
A newborn cries into the day
Names are passed like woven cloth
Love finds another shape
Tunatembea pamoja
No one walks alone
The river knows which way to run
The stars return when light is gone
We trace the path our mothers walked
And keep our lanterns shining on Through every valley,
dark and deep
A promise that we choose to keep
And when the shadow fades
We see the light ahead
The road we build today
Is where our children tread
Round we go, river to sea
Hand to hand, you and me
Life is a wheel,
turning us home We are the fire,
we are the stone Maisha yanazunguka
We rise, we
fall, we carry on
If I am only passing through
Let me leave a little bread
Let me plant a kinder word
For the feet ahead
Round we go, river to sea
Hand to hand, you and me Life is a wheel,
turning us home We are the fire,
we are the stone Maisha yanazunguka We rise,
we fall, we carry on (oh)
We carry on
Round we go, river to sea
Hand to hand, you and me Life is a wheel,
turning us home We are the fire,
we are the stone Maisha yanazunguka
We rise, we fall,
we carry on We carry on
to the end Jua linapanda
Maisha yanazunguka
We
begin again