On Johannesburg's Talk Radio 702, Bono confessed Redi Tlabi, the show´s hostess, that he had written some additional lyrics to "Breathe" that didn´t make it into the song. These lyrics were written from Nelson Mandela´s perspective, Bono said that while he was getting ready for the interview, he remembered them and found it appropriate to share them with her and her audience.
Here they are for us to enjoy:
18th of July on the banks of a not well-known river,
I started a journey to where I am now.
Troublesome, troublemaker,
guided by the drums of my creator towards a rhythm,
a rhyme, a melody line of a song called freedom,
which once heard will never leave your head.
Rolihlahla, on a day like this, it's love that gives us courage to resist.
Agape love forged like steel in the fire.
Agape love like a whisper that calls us to walk out into the street
with your arms out and the people you meet are neither down nor out,
hey there is nothing you have that I need. I can breathe. I can breathe.
All those who stand together, fist in air, now know this --
that real division is not a scar on the land,
but in the hearts of every man who began as a kiss not to resist,
and not a fist. Now an open hand, an open face,
an open page where history might rewrite its rage.
Agape love forged like steel in the fire.
Agape love whispering to us to walk out into the street,
sing your hearts out to the people you meet, neither down nor out,
hey there is nothing you have that I need. I can breathe, I can breathe.
Excellent read: " A Long Walk to Freedom:The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela"
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