Africa (Radio Edit)

Africa, if I were a hospice worker

I would enter the room where you were laying

I would remove the flies from your eyes

Africa, if I were a hospice worker

I would enter the room where you were laying

I would remove the flies from your eyes

I would sit with you day and night

I would wash your hot face with cool cloths

I would spoon feed you while cradling your skeletal head

I would empty your spoils

I would fetch you clean fresh water

You would avoid bedsores because I would turn you over

And constantly change your sheets

Africa, if I were a hospice worker

I would enter the room where you were laying

I would flick the flies from your eyes

I would stuff your pillows with lavender

I would massage your weak limbs

I would sing songs for you about the time when game was plentiful

And animals talked

When the forest was the only drugstore that you needed

I would amuse you and delight in the laughter

That came between your rack and coughs

Africa, if I were a hospice worker

I would enter the room where you were laying

I would flick the flies from your eyes

I would stay with you

Until long after that day when you left your infirmary

And startled those who'd given you up for dead

I will stay with you

Until long after that day when you left your infirmary

And startled those who'd given you up for dead

Given you up for dead

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Africa

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