Heritage

How can I break this promise?
The blood we drank was priceless
The others just numbers
How can I forget
Love still burning inside?
Can't throw away this heritage
Can't take this culture for granted
For I was always told
This is who you are
Now I call it my pride

How can I hide this feeling?
The memory of grandmas singing
The stories of whom I was
And you thought was miss
Found its end in dreams

Nutatira igihango
Ngana wanjye uramenye
Dore urugo ruzahora wambaye
Akandi gikaza kuranga
Nutatira igihango
Ngana wanjye uramenye
Dore urugo ruzahora wambaye
Akandi gikaza kuranga

Sakwe, sakwe
Tell me something
How was the harvest shown for Mutara?
Take me back to the weddings of the days
Hear grandpa singing for her

All the poems
All the rituals
What lullaby was sung to the babies?
What songs made the bride cry in her new home?
Can I have a piece of that?

Take the flag and win the war
Sing our victory dance of joy
Bow for the heroes that lost their lives
For their precious country

Nutatira igihango
Ngana wanjye uramenye
Dore urugo ruzahora wambaye
Akandi gikaza kuranga
Nutatira igihango
Ngana wanjye uramenye
Dore urugo ruzahora wambaye
Akandi gikaza kuranga

Nutatira igihango
Ngana wanjye uramenye
Dore urugo ruzahora wambaye
Akandi gikaza kuranga

Akandi gikaza kuranga

Akandi gikaza kuranga