Unabi
Translated as “a flash of light” in Zulu, this song is written both out of frustration and of passion. Frustration with apathy, and passion for the warriors of the world who fight the good fight. As I play I repeat to myself, “If you keep going, I’ll keep going.”
Unabi is one track, with no loops, no effects.
[This is previously known as Passive/Action – please change the title in your iTunes/media player if you have a previous recording]
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I don’t resist them anymore. She comes to me, with eyes like a small child in want, but with a soul that has been waiting 100 years in the earth. She brings with her, a generation. A peoples, some who have come in droves, others, who straggle. They pound on my door, begging me. Give us our voice! Give us justice! Give us deliverance! Look, look what we have planned while everyone has slept for years…. we watch you spend your life on such trivial things. Distractions. They’re all distractions – to keep you from hearing us just beneath the river…. I kneel down to notice this river. It is filled with the tears of all the people. Generations and centuries of tears, running through the land, giving life to the trees, the animals near by, the flowers that bloom each spring and just beneath the reflection of this earth, there they all are. Shouting. I can hear them, I can feel them. They do not waiver for they know the truth that hides beneath the curtain…and their tears are the life support to this world— an IV of hope and yet I, the cell of cancer still remains.
Candice, beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing this inspiration, I’m so grateful. Epic, haunting, honest. You rock.