Masai Boy Lyrics - Anthem - Toyah

(Words Willcox/Music Willcox, Lee) 

Rise o sun 

Rise o sun 

Golden one 

God of our horizon 

God's eye. Volcano cry. 

Warrior. You're a Masai. 

Africa 

Africa 

Africa 

Africa 

Spear your joy 

Spear your joy 

Masai Warboy 

Manhood. You must kill the boar 

Be a warrior. As your elders before 

Painted loins. Africa 

Seeking the spirit of adventure 

Dye your hair 

Paint your skin 

Sacrifice 

The youth of your skin 

Run to the sun 

Run to the sun 

Run to the sun 

Run to the sun 

Exhaustion 

Exhaustion 

Exhaustion 

Exhaustion 

Your body's screaming 

Your body's screaming 

Masai boy 

You're a warrior 

MARIONETTE 

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(Words Willcox/Music Bogen) 

Twisted strangers 

Have gone to war 

Oxygen drunk 

Fall bleeding to the floor 

Glass eyed creatures 

Fragmented features 

Piecing together 

Fallen warriors 

Revolution 

For the maiden queen 

Sherwood Forest 

Or an African scene 

The Marionette 

She has velvet claws 

She pulls the strings 

In this city of whores 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

You say yes 

You bend, she wins 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

Pulls and pulls 

Til your spirit gives in 

Grueling hot sweat 

In the land of a whore 

Will this be war 

Will this be war 

The knave and the pawn 

Ripen the whore 

With bastard sons 

Her brats of law 

The hawk and the falcon 

Swoop to blind their eyes 

The reaper she laughs 

She chokes she cries 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

You say yes 

You bend, she wins 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

Pulls and pulls 

Til your spirit gives in 

Foaming white horses 

Cracking their sinews 

For the Maidens of Troy 

The bell tower falls 

Pouring to the floor 

Whoa, love and death, a climax all in all 

Medieval shores and madrigals 

Her velvet claws pull you with passion 

To her floor 

In the cathedral 

Her children sing 

In the cathedral 

The pendulum swings 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

You say yes 

You bend, she wins 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

Pulls and pulls 

Til your spirit gives in