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Peter Gabriel – Biko (Live) (1986) | Track profile | Dork

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Peter Gabriel
So (Special Edition)
Biko (Live)

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Biko (Live)

Release date: 18th May 1986

From So (Special Edition)

Track 25

9:36

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About This Track

"Biko (Live)" is a track by Peter Gabriel, from the album So (Special Edition), released 18th May 1986. The track is 9:36 long. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

Lyrics

Biko (Live)

[Verse 1]

September '77

Port Elizabeth weather fine

It was business as usual

In police room 619

[Chorus]

Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko

Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko

Yihla moja, yihla moja

The man is dead

The man is dead

[Interlude]

[Verse 2]

When I try and sleep at night

I can only dream in red

The outside world is black and white

With only one colour dead

[Chorus]

Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko

Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko

Yihla moja, yihla moja

The man is dead

The man is dead

[Interlude]

[Verse 3]

You can blow out a candle

But you can't blow out a fire

Once the flames begin to catch

The wind will blow it higher

[Chorus]

Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko

Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko

Yihla moja, yihla moja

The man is dead

The man is dead

[Post-Chorus]

And the eyes of the world are

Watching now, watching now

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Track details

From So (Special Edition)

9:361986

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Album

So (Special Edition)

Track number

25

Release year

1986

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7We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)

8This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)

10This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds) [Live]

11San Jacinto (Live)

12Shock the Monkey (Live)

13Family Snapshot (Live)

14Intruder (Live)

15Games Without Frontiers (Live)

16No Self Control (Live)

17Mercy Street (Live)

18The Family and the Fishing Net (Live)

19Donʼt Give Up (Live)

20Solsbury Hill (Live)

21Lay Your Hands On Me (Live)

22Sledgehammer (Live)

23Here Comes the Flood (Live)

24In Your Eyes (Live)

25Biko (Live)

9:36

—Sledgehammer - Remastered

—In Your Eyes - Remastered

—Big Time - Remastered