Lyrics and translation Iwan Fals - Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Dengar rintihan berjuta kepala
Waktu lapar menggila
Hamparan manusia tunggu mati
Nyawa tak ada arti

Kering kerontang meradang
Entah sampai kapan
Datang tikam nurani
Selaksa do'a penjuru dunia
Mengapa tak robah bencana
Menjerit Afrika mengerang Ethiopia

Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Derap langkah sang penggali kubur
Angkat yang mati dengan kelingking
Parade murka bocah petaka
Tak akan lenyap kian menggema
Nafas orang-orang disana
Merobek telinga telanjangi kita

Lalat-lalat berdansa cha cha cha
Berebut makan dengan mereka
Tangis bayi ditetek ibunya
Keringkan airmata dunia
Obrolan kita dimeja makan
Tentang mereka yang kelaparan
Lihat sekarat dilayar TV
Antar kita pergi ke alam mimpi

Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia

(Ethiopia) Disana terlihat ribuan burung nazar
(Ethiopia) Terbang disisi iga-iga yang keluar
(Ethiopia) Jutaan orang memaki takdirnya
(Ethiopia) Jutaan orang mengutuk nasibnya

(Ethiopia) Jutaan orang marah
(Ethiopia) Jutaan orang tak bisa berbuat apa-apa
(Ethiopia) Setiap detik selalu saja ada yang merintih
(Ethiopia) Setiap menit selalu saja ada yang mengerang

(Ethiopia) Ethiopia Ethiopia
(Ethiopia) Ethiopia Ethiopia
(Ethiopia) Aku dengar jeritan dari sini aku dengar
(Ethiopia) Aku dengar tangismu dari sini aku dengar

(Ethiopia) Namun aku hanya bisa mendengar
(Ethiopia) Aku hanya bisa sedih
(Ethiopia) Hitam kulitmu sehitam nasibmu kawan
(Ethiopia) Ethiopia

(Ethiopia) Waktu kita asik makan waktu kita asik minum
(Ethiopia) Mereka haus mereka lapar
(Ethiopia) Mereka lapar mereka lapar

Ethiopia

Listen to the moans of millions of heads
When hunger goes wild
Vast stretches of humanity await death
Life has no meaning

Dry and parched, burning
I don't know how long
Conscience comes and stabs
A hundred thousand prayers from all corners of the world
Why doesn't the disaster change?
Screaming Africa, groaning Ethiopia

Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia

The stride of the grave digger
He lifts the dead with his little finger
The parade of wrath of the children of misfortune
It won't disappear, it's getting louder
The breath of the people there
Tears apart our ears, lays us bare

The flies dance cha cha cha
Fighting over food with them
The cry of a baby at its mother's breast
Dries up the tears of the world
Our conversations at the dinner table
About those who are starving
We see them dying on the TV screen
And it sends us to the land of dreams

Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia

(Ethiopia) There you see thousands of vow birds
(Ethiopia) Flying beside protruding ribs
(Ethiopia) Millions of people curse their fate
(Ethiopia) Millions of people curse their luck

(Ethiopia) Millions of people are angry
(Ethiopia) Millions of people can't do anything
(Ethiopia) Every second there's always someone moaning
(Ethiopia) Every minute there's always someone groaning

(Ethiopia) Ethiopia Ethiopia
(Ethiopia) Ethiopia Ethiopia
(Ethiopia) I hear their screams from here, I hear
(Ethiopia) I hear your cries from here, I hear

(Ethiopia) But I can only hear
(Ethiopia) I can only be sad
(Ethiopia) Your skin is as black as your fate, my friend
(Ethiopia)

(Ethiopia) While we're enjoying our meals, while we're enjoying our drinks
(Ethiopia) They're thirsty, they're hungry
(Ethiopia) They're hungry, they're hungry