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Salvation Eve

© 2007 (V.Phakathi)

TRACK 03:

Words Recited by:
Vus’umuzi Phakathi

Music Production by: 
Tongogara Ntlokoa 

Keys by: 
Zakhele Mabena

Additional Words [on the hook] Written and Sung by:
Pebbles Gqunta

Hook:
I am a voice, Proud and strong;
I am the will to carry on;
I am reason to believe;
I AM EVE!

I am truth, [and] I am light;
I am the bearer of new life;
I am reason to believe;
I AM EVE!

1. This is the time for spiritually inclined women to assume their position in the heights of heaven;

2. View the world in its immediate state and realize the power that lies within them,

3. To recreate Eden and enable Adam to feast from the tree of Life and inevitably change the fate of Cane and Able.

4. For a curse was cast on the snake to crawl on his belly devouring dust for the rest of his days; Man was made from dust.

5. With the breath of life brought to life, now suffocated to death by the wages that he earns as he tirelessly toils on this earth for sin; the wages of sin are death!

6. From birth enmity was placed between woman and snake, now the survival of the Father’s creation is at stake.

7. The insidious snake has befriended man; you will see them by the fruit that they bear.

8. Obsessed over the dominion cast upon (him) over the dead, the serpent sucks the breath out of man and devours the dust, only in woman can the father now most trust, because this is their time.

9. No time to be celebrating the world’s rights that tick into existence everything on God’s not to do list, No!

10. It is not the time to rejoice about financial prosperities and abilities of taking over man’s responsibilities, No!

11. This is your time spiritually inclined woman to assume your position in the heights of heaven,

12. [And] lead man away from the snake back to your side.
Sow and nourish the seed that will crush the head of the snake’s offspring.

13. Decipher and discern the devil’s deceit of placing you on man’s ordained seat,
And draw the line between submission and oppression,
Being equal and being the same.

14. Do not only preach but also live and teach;
Reach out for scriptures and search for answers;
Research for truth.

15. Reform this formless and empty world and refill it with the holly spirit of the Most High God and be a manifestation of His will;
Because this is your time!

Selah!

Vus’umuzi Phakathi


Salvation Eve

In truth I know nothing of your pain,
But believe me I too at times feel like I'm flying paper planes in the pouring rain.
Life too many a time is quite mundane and unpleasant,
Hence, I too at times feel like I am drenched in disdain for the present,
The kamikaze current carrying, rocking, crushing my soul to a wreck, and
I too at times feel like my heart is drowning,
In an immense raving ravenous emptiness, I feel it drowning,
Heavy heart, suspended anchor to a wrecked sinking soul,
I so at times feel like I am not coping,
Like ripping the air open
Jumping into it hoping,
To be rebirthed amongst the stars
In the distant space of milk and Mars,
Where as just a simple plus
The heaviest baggage bears no weight,
Life can be written on any slate,
There are skies beneath my feet,
There are stars within my reach,
Perhaps if this far-fetched fantasy I fail to reach
I could be rebirthed as a figure of speech,
Like, like, like a Simile.

I too at times feel like screaming, 
Shout, shuttering the silence,
With its broken pieces ceremoniously slit the wrists of Time,
Just wallow in the sublime,
Not having a care of what's shallow, of what's divine,
Of what is yours, of what is mine,
In truth the pain I know is my own!

I have since learnt to count past lessons learnt as one counts sheep to put my pain to sleep,
Do believe me I too at times weep.
Yes, be not ashamed to weep!
Ex_create what is not,
For what is not is simply naught,
It is Nothing!
Nothing ever is until it is,
The most slippery flaw is upholding what is not as though it is
With the hope of it becoming!
In the process of your becoming understand,
That memories soon forgotten are memories with the least impact,
In fact, attempting to forget those with a major impact only cause us more pain,
In so doing we dwell in the pain of the past and fail to experience the joys of the present,
Joys that turn into more pain when we realize that in our melancholic state we failed to experience them,
So, let us not attempt to forget,
But learn to understand and accept,
The purpose and essence of existence is experience,
So, let us savor every moment, 
Let us experience.

In truth, I do not know your pain,
However, I know much about my own.
Even in our deepest pain,
Let us learn to Live Out Happiness, All Else Is Frivolity!




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