Natalie Gamsu - Hot Gates
“Hot Gates,” the incredibly compelling and important anthem written by Christopher Torr, sung here by the great Natalie Gamsu (both natives of South Africa). Here are the lyrics—simple yet powerful, fraught with urgency and intimations of apocalypse
Hot Gates
London Paris Rome Berlin
Barcelona Washington
Moscow Beijing Tokyo
Jerusalem Jericho
Waco Beirut Bethlehem
Srebrenica Sebokeng
Sarajevo, O Saigon
Hiroshima Rubicon
I can see a fiery, fiery glow
Even as the sun is sinking low
I can see a horseman on the run
Oh my daughter, oh my son
Carthage Dresden Babylon
Sharpeville, My Lai, Boipatong
Amajuba Bellevue
Chappaquiddick Waterloo
Bucharest St Petersburg
Heilbron Hobhouse Gettysburg
Belfast Budapest Baghdad
Berchtesgaden Stalingrad
I can see a fiery, fiery glow
Even as the sun is sinking low
I can see a horseman on the run
Oh my daughter, oh my son
Dunkirk Dover Normandy
Frankfurt, New York, Lockerbie
Delville Wood, El Alamein
St. Helena, Mitchell's Plain
Balaklava Austerlitz
Belsen Buchenwald Auschwitz
Nagasaki, O Versailles
Armageddon Thermopylae
I can see a fiery, fiery glow
Even as the sun is sinking low
I can see a horseman on the run
Oh my daughter, oh my son
There's another song that will be sung
There's another bell that must be rung
There's another city I've been told
Where the streets are paved with gold
There's another city I've been told
Where the streets are paved with gold.