Biko

Peter Gabriel

{Original}

Album Information
Album Name (Year): Peter Gabriel 3 - Melt (1980)
Record Label: Geffen Records
Billboard Chart: The Billboard 200
Entry Week (Position): 06/21/1980 (n/a)
Peak Position: 22	Weeks On Chart: 29
Songs On This Album: (Click For Lyrics) 1. Intruder 2. No Self-Control 3. Start (Instrumental) 4. I Don't Remember 5. Family Snapshot 6. And Through The Wire 7. Games Without Frontiers 8. Not One Of Us 9. Lead A Normal Life 10. Biko

Album Notes

This album also spent 18 weeks on the British Charts starting 06/07/80, peaking at #1.

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September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In Police Room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
The man is dead
The man is dead

When I try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one color dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
The man is dead
The man is dead

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flame begins to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
The man is dead
The man is dead

And the eyes of the world are watching now
Watching now

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Song Information
Song Written By: Peter Gabriel
Track Number: 10	Track Length: 7:32
Billboard Chart: Song did not chart in the U.S.
Entry Week (Position): - -
Peak Position: - -	Weeks On Chart: - -

Song Notes

This song spent 3 weeks on the British Charts starting 08/23/80, peaking at #38.

Written about black activist Steven Biko.

This song has been covered by:
Robert Wyatt
Simple Minds
Joan Baez