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You got to wash with the crocodile in the river You got to swim with the sharks in the sea You got to live with the crooked politician Trust those things that you can never see Ayeye ayeye, Jesse mfana, ayeye ayeye Ayeye ayeye, Jesse mfana, ayeye ayeye You got to trust your lover when you go away Keep on believing tomorrow brings a better day Sometimes you smile while you're cryin' inside Just once you'll turn away while the truth be shinin' bright Ayeye ayeye , Jesse mfana, ayeye ayeye Ayeye ayeye , Jesse mfana, ayeye ayeye It's a cruel, crazy, beautiful world Every day you wake up I hope it's under a blue sky It's a cruel, crazy, beautiful world One day when you wake up I will have to say goodbye Say goodbye, it's your world so live in it Goodbye, it's your world so live in it Beyond the door, strange cruel beautiful years lie waiting for you It kills me to know you won't escape loneliness Maybe you lose hope too Ayeye ayeye, Jesse mfana, ayeye ayeye Ayeye ayeye, Jesse mfana, ayeye ayeye It's a cruel, crazy, beautiful world Every time you wake up I hope it's under a blue sky It's a cruel, crazy, beautiful world One day when you wake up I will have to say goodbye Say goodbye It's your world so live in it Goodbye, it's your world so live in it When I feel your small body close to mine I feel weak and strong at the same time So few years to give you wings to fly Show you the stars to guide your ship by It's a cruel, crazy, beautiful world Every day you wake up I hope it's under a blue sky It's a cruel, crazy, beautiful world One day when you wake up I will have to say goodbye Say goodbye, it's your world so live in it It's your world so live in it (it's your world so live in it) It's your world so live in it (it's your world so live in it) ‘Cruel Crazy Beautiful World’ by Johnny Clegg and Savuka Songwriters: Jonathan Paul Clegg Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World is a studio album from South African artist Johnny Clegg and his band Savuka. Released in 1989 and produced by Hilton Rosenthal and Bobby Summerfield, it is today recognized as probably the band's greatest album, containing hits such "Dela" and "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World". The title track is addressed and dedicated to Clegg's son Jesse, born in 1988, who is depicted on Clegg's shoulders on the album cover. The song "One (Hu)'Man One Vote" was written in honor of David Webster, a friend of Johnny Clegg and anti-apartheid activist who had been assassinated three weeks earlier. The lyrics of "Warsaw 1943" were inspired from the works of Polish author Czesław Miłosz. In 1997, the song "Dela (I Know Why The Dog Howls at the Moon)" was released on the soundtrack of Disney's George of the Jungle. Savuka, occasionally referred to as Johnny Clegg & Savuka, was a multi-racial South African band formed in 1986 by Johnny Clegg after the disbanding of Juluka. Savuka's music blended traditional Zulu musical influences with Celtic music and Rock music that had a cross-racial appeal in South Africa. Their lyrics were often bilingual in English and Zulu and they wrote several politically charged songs, particularly related to apartheid. Some better-known Savuka songs include "Asimbonanga", and "Third World Child", from their 1987 album Third World Child. Band percussionist Dudu Zulu was killed in 1992; their song "The Crossing" was a tribute to him. Jonathan Paul Clegg, OBE, OIS (7 June 1953 – 16 July 2019) was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African peoples. His band Juluka began as a duo with Sipho Mchunu, and was the first group in the South African apartheid-era with a white man and a black man. The pair performed and recorded, later with an expanded lineup. In 1986 Clegg founded the band Savuka, and also recorded as a solo act, occasionally reuniting with his earlier band partners. Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc (French: [lə zulu blɑ̃], for "The White Zulu"), he was an important figure in South African popular music and a prominent white figures in the resistance to apartheid, becoming for a period the subject of investigation by the Security Branch of the South African Police. His songs mixed English with Zulu lyrics, and also combined idioms of traditional African music with those of modern Western styles. Source: Wikipedia