Helena Hettema

Written in 1997 in London.  I was sitting on Brighton Beach, a very unusual setting with big round stones, a palle sun and a very mild sea in front of me.Not like South Africa where everything is in excess ...too hot, too strong, too wild ... And therefore home.

The eclipse really happened but on another day. I sang the song for the first time at a concert given in South Africa House in London and was proud to be South African.

She wore the colour of the sky on her fingertips
The sun was in her soul, she knew she was aSpirit free that nothing can be owned
She knew she had to wander far,
Leave the ones she loved,
She knew she had to follow her dream
So she could one day return home

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She was a girl with a divided heart
Like the light and the dark, a divided heart
Between two continents and somewhere far her home
But where it really lay was deep within her soul
But where it really lay deep was deep in her soul

She gazed at the eclipse of the moon
she walked to her own beat, on the
edge of the world, and sang her simple tune
she listened to the message in the wild, wild wind
And let the sea spirit take her to his home

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